Rocket, satellite factories to rise at Exploration Park in 2017
James Dean, FLORIDA TODAY Published 9:54 p.m. ET Jan. 1, 2017 | Updated 7:18 a.m. ET Jan. 2, 2017 Published 9:54 p.m. ET Jan. 1, 2017 | Updated 7:18 a.m. ET Jan. 2, 2017 The New Year will see a pair of major new space manufacturing facilities rise at Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Park. OneWeb, a… [Continue Reading]
Congress
Continuing Resolution: Lightfoot: No negative impact for NASA from new CR NASA should be able to spend as needed to keep Exploration Mission-1 on track under the U.S. budget Continuing Resolution passed by the Senate late last week. Passed earlier by the U.S. House, the new CR remains in effect through April in lieu of… [Continue Reading]
President-elect Trump – Transition
Transition Team for NASA: Trump adds six more to NASA transition team A half dozen experts have joined the Chris Shank-led transition team for President-elect Donald Trump at NASA. They include Steve Cook, who worked on Ares rocket development for the George W. Bush administration’s now cancelled Constellation program, and Sandra Magnus, a former NASA… [Continue Reading]
International Space Station
Photos from ISS: NASA releases top 16 photos from the International Space Station from 2016 The whole world stars in an all-star lineup of the 16 best photos snapped from the International Space Station in 2016. Auroras over Australia are pretty amazing. Citizens for Space Exploration – a pro-space, taxpayer, grassroots advocacy group (http://www.bayareahouston.com/content/c_s_e/c_s_e) –… [Continue Reading]
Orion and Space Launch System
Orion Highlights 2016 and Nov 2016: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2016_orion_overview_full.pdf andhttps://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/orion_monthly_newsletter_11-2016.pdf Orion Service Module: Orion service module engine shipped to Europe The NASA-furnished rocket engine that will fit onto the Orion capsule slated for a crucial late 2018 unpiloted test launch of the Space Launch System explorationrocket has been shipped to Europe. There it will be mated to Orion’s… [Continue Reading]
Commercial Space Transportation
Commercial Crew: NASA has a new way to fly The U.S. has turned to Russia to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station since NASA’s space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011. But that’s changing with some important milestones ahead for Boeing and SpaceX, the two U.S. companies developing low Earth orbit astronaut… [Continue Reading]
Space Budgets, Policy, Missions, Benefits, International Updates
· Buzz Aldrin on Exploration and John Glenn: Buzz Aldrin: John Glenn was a hero. We owe it to him to keep exploring space Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin recalls his long-running association with John Glenn, the Mercury astronaut and first American to orbit the Earth, in an op-ed. Glenn died last week in his native… [Continue Reading]
December 2016 North Brevard Business Review
RUAG, a Swiss technology company announces plans to occupy space in the recently completed 240,000 sq. ft. Titusville Logistics Center; Hobby Lobby was welcomed to by a large crowd at its Titusville Grand Opening; A 52,000 sq. ft. manufacturing building available for purchase or lease has been added to the North Brevard property database. [gview file=”https://titusville.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Business-Review-Newsletter-NBEDZ-December-2016.pdf”] — The… [Continue Reading]
Space Budgets, Policy, Missions, Benefits, International Updates
Lunar Space Station: This is NASA’s plan for humanity’s return to the moon, and beyond A lunar-orbiting space station, positioned in the 2020s, figures prominently in NASA’s strategy to reach the Martian environs with human explorers in the 2030s. Asteroid Mission: Smith, Babin question NASA assertion that scientists now support ARM Chairs of the U.S…. [Continue Reading]
Commercial Space Transportation
Orbital ATK / Cygnus Resupply Mission: Destructive re-entry marks end to successful Cygnus OA-5 mission Orbital ATK’s latest and most innovative NASA contracted re-supply mission carried out a planned destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Orbital’s Cygnus re-supply capsule departed the six-person International Space Station early November 21 for an extended,… [Continue Reading]