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Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff |
NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles.  |
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 September 2008 Michael Milstein |
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets.  |
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.  |
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.  |
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Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.  |
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets.  |
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 September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.  |
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.  |
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space  |
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NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.  |
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 June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Works on Vision of Affordable Space The words "affordable" and "national security space" systems are not often paired together.  |
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.  |
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 March 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Vendor Plans to Launch Commercial Laser Satellite System Two of the U.S. military's long-standing communications problems could be solved if a new company manages to get its proposed laser-based satellite system off the ground.  |
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Scientists Pursue Flexible, Adaptable Space Systems In the future, "virtual satellites" circling the globe will peer down on enemy forces.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John McHale |
Payload Systems designs satellites that move in formation The bowling ball-sized satellites, called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES), comprise a test bed for maneuvering satellites and orbiting telescopes, Payload Systems officials say.  |
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.  |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Israel Pushes New Satellite as Solution to U.S. Space Radar Needs Israel Aerospace Industries has joined with Northrop Grumman in hopes that they can sell time on a radar imaging satellite to U.S. government agencies.  |
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 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.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Private Spaceflight Gets A New Boost From Silicon Valley Bessemer Venture Partners, which manages more than $4 billion in capital and primarily invests in cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms, announced a new aerospace investment practice this week.  |
Popular Mechanics January 2008 Erik Sofge |
Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier The idea of using satellites to beam solar power down from space is nothing new, but cost has limited it from coming to fruition.  |
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.  |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet.  |
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.  |
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China Building Space Port China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.  |
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.  |
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition.  |
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NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star.  |
Wired May 19, 2008 Ben Perreau |
Is There Any Country That Doesn't Have a Space Program? A look at international space programs.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory.  |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Ponders Role in Irregular Warfare Military communications, reconnaissance and GPS satellites provide services to deployed forces every day, but the organization wants to know what more it can do to participate in the irregular warfare that ground forces are currently engaged in.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.  |
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 James Oberg |
Could China Get to Mars First? Maybe -- if it adopts a less top-down approach  |
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force to Boost Budget to Prepare for Conflicts in Space A potential conflict on Earth that escalates into space has prompted the Air Force to find an extra $5 billion to spend on offensive and defensive systems to protect national security satellites.  |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.  |