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.
NASA has tapped the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to develop the off-again/on-again Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
Solar scientists and space weather forecasters hope to gain new insight into the Sun’s magnetic field and how it creates potentially dangerous space weather after NASA launches its latest heliophysics spacecraft this November.
GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) soon will leave its home at Goddard Space Flight Center here and travel by truck to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where it is due to be orbited by an Atlas V rocket in November. The first mission in NASA’s Living With A Star program, SDO will study the solar atmosphere from geosynchronous Earth orbit, taking images of the sun in multiple wavelengths at a resolution 10 times higher than high-definition TV.
