Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Northrop Grumman has proposed a demonstration to the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center in which U.S. military users would be able to tap Israel’s new TecSar/Polaris 1 imaging radar satellite for a period this summer. Under the proposal, U.S. users would submit imagery requests that would then be sent through the Israeli ground station in Tel Aviv.
Three months after Boeing tasked Orion Propulsion Inc. (OPI) to work on producibility issues for the reaction control system (RCS) for the Ares I launcher, the two companies signed a NASA-sponsored Mentor-Protege agreement at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The accord will make OPI—a small engineering and testing specialist from Madison, a Huntsville suburb—more visible in the Boeing supply chain and open the door for it to move into RCS hardware work, says OPI business development director Shar Hendrick.
Days after revealing possible underground seas on the moon Enceladus, NASA’s Cassini Saturn probe has discovered evidence pointing to the existence of a subsurface ocean of water and ammonia on Titan. The discovery was made by collating measurements of Titan’s rotation obtained by Cassini’s synthetic aperture radar during 19 passes over Titan between October 2005 and May 2007. Scientists inferred that a 30-km. shift in the expected positions of prominent surface features over the period could only be explained by the existence of an ocean under the moon’s icy crust.
