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The United Arab Emirates is encouraging Arab and North African countries to participate in the efforts to set up an Arab space agency (ASA), Dr. Omar Al Emam, Advisor, Arab Science and Technology Foundation told the Khaleej Times.
Read MoreNew technology requires newly trained and skilled people to properly conduct the task at hand. And so it goes with the demand for unmanned aircraft, in fact the Air Force is launching two new training programs, including an experimental one that would turn out up to 1,100 pilots to fly the drones over Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read MoreRussia may decide to create a state corporation for the rocket and space industry next year, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.
Read MoreNOAA's National Geodetic Survey has recently incorporated 43 new GPS tracking sites into the Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network. This increase includes 13 sites established by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of their Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). Four of the new WAAS sites are located in Alaska, four in Canada, and five in Mexico.
Read MoreTime flys but not as fast as the lauches that take place at NASA. Fifty years is truly golden for NASA and NASA Television and www.nasa.gov will broadcast a gala event commemorating the agency's Golden Anniversary on Wednesday, September 24, at 8 p.m. EDT.
Read MoreA new partnership between NASA and the United States Air Force is underway as they look to university and industry partners to work together to advance hypersonic research. Hypersonic speed is defined as Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and faster.
Read MoreJohn Auburn, VEGA’s Aerospace Business Development Director and Chairman of UKspace, has called upon the UK Government to “reinstate a robust national Space program” in order to “guarantee national security in an increasingly complex international environment.”
Read MoreFrom the Media Line News Agency, and subsequently published at The Jerusalem Post, comes an article headlined "Top Saudi cleric: Kill immoral satellite TV channel owners". Not a headline meant to endear Arab-owned satellite TV operators and broadcasters, to be certain.
Read MoreFrom a blog at the OrlandoSentinel.com, we learn the Senator John McCain, joined by Republican colleagues Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and David Vitter of New Orleans, sent a letter to President Bush this week, saying that in light of tensions with Russia, the White House should tell NASA to halt any further dismantling of the shuttle infrastructure for at least a year to keep open the possibility of more shuttle flights beyond 2010.
Read MoreAnother acronym to add to your list is ASAP which represents the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. The ASAP has released its 2007 Annual Report that examines NASA's safety performance, and advises the agency on ways to better their performance.
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