Space Industry Analysis
Dec 17, 2012
SPACE PRIORITIES: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), incoming chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is looking for programs that inspire the public. During a recent hearing on NASA, a key space-policy adviser may have provided clues to the new chairman‘s priorities. “People have an interest in life,” says Scott Pace, the head of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.
Dec 14, 2012
NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory A and B lunar mission spacecraft are scheduled for a violent but potentially scientifically productive end as they carry out a controlled plummet into a mountain ridge near the Moon’s north pole on Dec. 17. The impacts, within seconds of one another at 5:28 p.m. EST, will be monitored by ultraviolet sensors on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the presence of water vapor and other potential volatiles in lunar soil exposed to long periods of sunlight.
Dec 13, 2012
After five attempts over 14 years, appears to have orbited a satellite
Dec 13, 2012
Uses data from NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012
Will spend almost $30 million with Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX
Dec 12, 2012
Atlas V boosted the third USAF Orbital Transfer Vehicle