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One down, two to go… the first of three review phases required by the Safety Review Panel (SRP) at NASA have been completed quite successfully by SpaceX for the mission of sending their Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over four days at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, SpaceX engineers who are developing the Dragon spacecraft presented their Phase I plan for this voyage to ISS.
Read MoreThe initial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) $207 million, three-year contract for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has been awarded to ITT Corporation. This program is tasked with improving the safety and efficiency of the growing demands of air transportation.
Read MoreKnowing where to go, or having assistance in doing so, avoids numerous cuts and bruises and otherwise dented vehicles while scrambling for a map in the glove compartment, or pulling the map from your face with your car window open while driving… fortunately, there is the new Garmin nüvi 700 series satellite navigation system just released. The user interface is intuitive and offers an easy navigation experience.
Read MoreThe second test satellite in the Galileo navigation constellation is on its way to ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from Thales Alenia Space’s plant in Rome. In Rome, Thale’s plant conducted satellite integration, platform and system tests, as well as vibration and shock assessments.
Read MoreAn unqualified success… a conclusion that now thrums with delight through the very soul of folk who work at Boeing, specifically Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, as the firm’s fourth-month demo of the Boeing Orbital Express system in the rigors of space reach their culmination.
Read MoreTesting… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.
Read MoreIntellectual Property Cores (IP cores) are blocks of logic or data used in creating a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a product. These wee components should be entirely portable in that they should be easy to insert into any vendor technology or design methodology.
Read MoreBetween September 17th and September 20th, the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, India is going to be a rather busy area. For the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is going to launch Polaris, an Israeli recon satellite, via a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Read MoreEn route to the Red Planet is the Mars Phoenix Lander. And we’ve learned today that SpaceDev (OTCBB:SPDV) provided key hardware and instruments for this endeavor that included five flight actuator assemblies, key components of the Wet Chemistry Laboratory for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) instrument that’s aboard NASA’s craft, all via contract to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Read MoreThere’s certainly more than one player in the hunt to build the GPS Block III program for the U.S. Air Force’s nextgen global positioning system. With a proven track record of providing progressively advanced spacecraft for the current GPS constellation, why, it’s only natural that a Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-led team would toss their hat into the ring.
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