Marshall Institute Meeting on Potential Impact of Sequestration on Space Industrial Base Tomorrow

Marshall Institute Meeting on Potential Impact of Sequestration on Space Industrial Base Tomorrow

The Marshall Institure and the Space Enterprise Council will hold another in their “Day without Space” seminar series tomorrow.  This time the topic is the potential impact of sequestration on …

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GeoEye and DigitalGlobe To Merge

GeoEye and DigitalGlobe To Merge

The two U.S. commercial remote sensing satellite comanies, GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, announced this morning that they will merge.  Coincidentally or not, the announcement comes on the 40th anniiversary of the …

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Sally Ride Loses Battle with Cancer

Sally Ride Loses Battle with Cancer

Former NASA astronaut Sally Ride died today after losing her battle with pancreatic cancer. A physicist, Dr. Ride was the first American woman in space and spent the rest of …

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House Passes Defense Appropriations, Speculation Continues on End Game as Aerospace Industry Worries

House Passes Defense Appropriations, Speculation Continues on End Game as Aerospace Industry Worries

The House passed the FY2013 defense appropriations bill (H.R. 5856) yesterday, approving $606 billion — a core budget of $518 billion plus $88 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations including the war in …

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Listner: DON'T Kill All The Lawyers, They're Needed As Uses of Space Evolve

Listner: DON'T Kill All The Lawyers, They're Needed As Uses of Space Evolve

Michael Listner, a lawyer, humorously urged the space community yesterday not to follow Shakespeare’s advice to “kill all the lawyers.”  Recounting a litany of thorny legal issues that may arise …

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Soyuz Docks with Space Station on 37th Anniversary of First U.S.-Soviet Space Docking

Soyuz Docks with Space Station on 37th Anniversary of First U.S.-Soviet Space Docking

The International Space Station (ISS) is back to its full complement of six crew members with the docking this morning of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Sergei …

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