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National Defense November 2012 Eric Beidel |
Spacecraft, Free-Falling Satellites Perform 'Delicate Dance' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with researchers around the world -- including high schoolers -- to solve the problem of synchronizing the movements of tumbling objects in space.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
MicroSat Systems selects Saft's Li-ion technology for satellites The 18-satellite contract marks MicroSat Systems's largest single order for microsatellite batteries.  |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames |
Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation.  |
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright |
'Wi-Fi in the Sky' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed.  |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.  |
National Defense July 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Satellites at the Beck and Call of Ground Troops Military leaders for years have been asking for a capability that would allow ground units to commandeer satellites to obtain imagery of their surroundings.  |
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Adapter Could Help Air Force Get More Out of Its Launches Moog Space and Defense Group is offering an adapter that can be placed aboard Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rockets.  |
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean |
Can the Air Force Build a Satellite in Six Days? Building a small satellite in the future could be as simple as ordering a personal computer today.  |
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer |
Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.  |
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit.  |
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean |
Space Research Wing is Small But Has Big Dreams The Space Development and Test Wing is small by Air Force standards, but its gung-ho culture makes it ideal for acting as the "connective tissue" between scientists and acquisitions commands.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 |
Space Systems/Loral buys amplifiers for communications satellites Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) from Electron Technologies amplify and transmit radio frequency signals back to Earth for a variety of applications, including voice, video, and data.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller |
NASA plans laser-based satellite-tracking network NASA optoelectronics experts are making plans to build a new ground-based global network that uses green laser beams to track orbiting satellites and to study Earth.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
U.S. space experts focus on reusable launch systems for small satellites The business of orbital satellites continues to grow, and the biggest growth in demand is coming from the smallest payloads.  |
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.  |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired.  |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 D.J. Hopson |
Addicted to Satellites? Air Force Searches For Alternatives to GPS Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, gave voice to a chink in the U.S. military's armor, one that many know about but few like to discuss in public: Without satellites, modern militaries lose most of their edge.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.  |
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash.  |
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Embraces Small Satellites As Budget Outlook Grows Dim With the federal budget expected to shrink in the coming years, Air Force officials are already looking at ways to maintain the capabilities they must deliver to the armed services.  |
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Bedrossian et al. |
Overclock My Satellite Sophisticated algorithms boost satellite performance on the cheap  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems.  |
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel |
Researchers Develop Tow Truck for Space Scientists want to launch a robot into space that would remove functioning parts from retired satellites and transport them to a different orbit for continued use.  |
National Defense September 2007 Grace Jean |
Autonomous Seaplane Will Go Into Production in 2008 An unmanned aircraft that can take off and land in water without any launching or trapping contraptions is planned for production late next year.  |
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck |
Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity  |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet.  |
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit.  |
National Defense June 2015 Vinny Sica |
Enabling Satellites to Do More With Less Satellite customers should continue to prioritize a streamlined approach by investing more in ground modernization and reuse of existing capabilities where feasible.  |
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications.  |
Popular Mechanics June 19, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry.  |
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground On May 7, the Air Force successfully sent to geosynchronous orbit GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite. It was a long, tortuous road, lasting some 15 years with a price tag that will come to $10.4 billion.  |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Mobile Broadband for Roaming Troops: Pipe Dream or Reality? Soldiers on the front line have little or no access to the Internet and their communication is limited to line-of-sight radios. The Defense Department is working on improving this, but will they succeed?  |
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.  |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground.  |
Popular Mechanics February 26, 2010 Rand Simberg |
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk? Ever since the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, almost a quarter of a century ago, the watchword above all others at NASA has been "safety." Unfortunately, watchwords don't necessarily create actual safety, as we learned a little over seven years ago, with the loss of her sister ship Columbia.  |
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Rand Simberg |
End Of The Shuttle Era: 24 Years after Challenger Twenty-four years after the Challenger disaster, space analysts reflect on the influence of that failed launch on the future of private and public space flight.  |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Slowdown In New Programs Erodes Space Industrial Base The U.S. space industry is losing critical skills and talent and is on a "downward trend," said Gen. C. Robert Kehler, the leader of Air Force Space Command.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 James C. Lyke |
U.S. Air Force's Plug-and-Play Satellites Satellite design doesn't have to be rocket science  |
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever.  |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 |
Enabling Technologies for Military and Aerospace Electronics Designers SenSyTech chooses Green Hills for weapons trainer... Lockheed Martin picks RGB Spectrum for F-16 trainer... Delta Air Lines selects Teradyne test system for avionics... NASA picks Verizon to test mobile router... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.  |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses.  |
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel |
DARPA Eyes Space Junk From the Ground The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, though, is wrapping up a demonstration with a new Space Surveillance Telescope that officials say will offer an unprecedented view of objects in space.  |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
`Responsive Space' Office Must Quickly Prove Itself, Proponents Say U.S. Strategic Command was given an office space and now people are are pushing for the office to make good on their promise to deliver space-based services to field commanders in days or weeks.  |