Space Industry Analysis
Feb 13, 2012
Facing estimates of at least a 30% possibility the International Space Station will need to be abandoned prematurely, NASA isn't taking any chances that the commercial cargo and crew vehicles it is funding will worsen those odds by causing a mishap.
Feb 13, 2012
Greg Diognardi has been appointed Falcon 900 technical sales manager at StandardAero Business Aviation, Tempe, Ariz. He was regional sales manager for Landmark Aviation.
Feb 13, 2012
Philip King (see photo) has been appointed president of San Jose, Calif.-based Vision Systems International, succeeding Drew Brugal. King has held leadership positions at McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.
Feb 13, 2012
Hannele Malin has been appointed VP-internal auditing at Finnair, succeeding Erkki Lehtinen, who will retire. Malin was manager for government, risk and compliance services at Deloitte & Touche.
Feb 13, 2012
Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros (see photo), chief of staff of the French air force, has become director of the European Air Group, based at RAF Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, for a two-year term. He succeeds Lt. Gen. Aarne Kreuzinger-Janik, commander of the German air force.
Feb 13, 2012
Bill Gerstenmaier (see photo), NASA associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, has received the Von Karman Lectureship in Astronautics award, given by the Washington-based American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was recognized for his leadership in human spaceflight, culminating in the space shuttle and International Space Station programs.
Feb 06, 2020
In addition to a software problem that ultimately forced Boeing to abandon a docking of its first CST-100 Starliner at the International Space Station, the uncrewed capsule suffered a second, previously unreported software problem during its December flight test.
Feb 06, 2020
L3Harris has received the green light to develop an experimental spacecraft that will improve the military’s positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Feb 06, 2020
Record-setting NASA astronaut Christina Koch was among three U.S., European and Russian International Space Station crewmembers who ended long missions to the ISS on Feb. 6.
Feb 06, 2020
The U.S. Space Force may be up and running, but it is still working out the details of how it will run, what its uniformed members will be called, and how it will acquire the future tools it will need.
Feb 05, 2020
The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center intends to unveil a Space Situational Awareness Marketplace later this year to help satisfy the military’s insatiable appetite for data.
Feb 04, 2020
After a tough year in 2019, Maxar Technologies has secured a trio of contract awards.
Feb 04, 2020
U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
Feb 04, 2020
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.