Pedro "Pete" Rustan: In Memoriam
Pedro “Pete” Rustan died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was renowned in the space business for his determination and innovative ideas, such as the Clementine satellite that orbited …
Chinese Astronauts Preparing for Return Tonight (EDT)-Update
UPDATE: Bob Christy’s calculation of a projected landing time of 02:03 GMT June 29 (10:03 pm tonight EDT) and the undocking time for Shenzhou-9 have been added. China’s three-person Shenzhou-9 …
GAO: Weather Satellite Data Gap Also Looms for GOES-R, JPSS Cost Estimate Higher Than Publicized
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) told Congress yesterday that in addition to a possible gap in data from NOAA’s polar-orbiting weather satellites, a similar gap in data from its geostationary …
Shenzhou-9 Lands Safely, but With a Bump
China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft landed as expected in Inner Mongolia at 10:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time tonight. The landing marks the end of a successful mission that saw China’s first crewed …
United Technologies Admits to 576 Export Violations; Will Pay $75 Million
The State Department announced a consent agreement today under which United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and three of its operating units or subsidiaries will pay $75 million in fines and penalties and take …
Lubchenco: Financial Misconduct at National Weather Service "Very Clever," "Hidden" — UPDATE
UPDATE: Government Executive magazine reports that the House Appropriations Committee approved the $36 million reprogramming on June 27. ORIGINAL STORY: A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) internal investigation that discovered …
Chinese Manual Docking Successful; Chinese Human Spaceflight Budget Revealed
Three Chinese astronauts in the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully accomplished a manual docking with the Tiangong-1 space station. This is the first manual docking of a Chinese crew with a space …
Events of Interest: Week of June 25-29, 2012
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate both are in session this week. Monday, June 25 Fourth Space Policy and History Forum …
Chinese Astronauts Prepare for Manual Docking Attempt
Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang are preparing to undock the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft from the Tiangong-1 space station and then redock using manual controls instead of the …
EnhancedView News Not so Rosy for GeoEye
The deal apparently is not yet done on the next year of funding under EnhancedView after all, at least for one of the two commercial satellite imagery companies that depend on …