Space Industry Analysis
Feb 20, 2012
Jeff Chalupa (see photo) has been named general manager-domestic operations for Tulsa, Okla.-based Nordam's transparency division. He was senior director-global engineering and quality for the repair division.
Feb 20, 2012
Richard DeFatta has joined Kratos Defense & Security Solutions in San Diego, as VP-engineering support services for the Madison Research Business Unit of the Weapon Systems Solution Div. He was VP of Teledyne Solutions.
Feb 20, 2012
Michelle A. Scarpella and Stephen D. Hogan (see photos) have been appointed Falls Church, Va.-based VPs for the F-35 and F/A-18 programs, respectively, for the Northrop Grumman Corp. Scarpella has worked on the B-2, Joint Stars and E-2C Hawkeye programs, and Hogan was EA-18G and EA-6B program director.
Feb 20, 2012
R. Scott Rettig has been named chairman and CEO of OTO Melara North America in Washington, succeeding U.S. Navy Adm. (ret.) James Amerault, who will retire. Rettig was chairman and CEO of AgustaWestland North America.
Feb 20, 2012
Brendan Lodge has been appointed chairman of Central European Private Aviation in Prague. He is business development director of JetBrokers Europe.
Feb 20, 2012
After quitting joint robotic missions to Mars with ESA, NASA plans to participate in smaller programs.
Feb 12, 2020
Two Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster airlifters carrying the Mars 2020 rover and various other elements touched down at Kennedy Space Center’s former Shuttle Landing Facility shortly after 3 p.m. EST Feb. 12.
Feb 11, 2020
NASA’s Washington headquarters is in line for the most, $7.75 billion, followed by the Johnson Space Center in Houston with $5.66 billion.
Feb 11, 2020
The Pentagon is requesting $15.4 billion for its newest service—the U.S. Space Force—in fiscal 2021, including a larger-than-anticipated increase in funding for a new generation of missile warning satellites.
Feb 11, 2020
President Trump’s proposed 12% boost in overall NASA spending for fiscal 2021 includes a roughly proportional decline in science spending.
Feb 10, 2020
NASA’s Artemis initiative to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface in 2024 is expected to cost about $35 billion going forward, Douglas Loverro, NASA’s new associate administrator for human exploration and operations, told a Feb. 10 news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Feb 10, 2020
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.
Feb 10, 2020
President Donald Trump is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, a whopping 12% budget increase in an attempt to bankroll a fast-track mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024.
Feb 10, 2020
The rescheduled launch of Northrop Grumman’s 13th Cygnus re-supply mission to the International Space Station now is planned for no earlier than Feb. 13 at 4:06 p.m. EST.