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It would seem that the federal government is in no hurry to give its seal of approval to the United Launch Alliance, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin EELV joint venture. When the deal was announced in early May, the companies expected to close the deal by the end of the year, but required approvals from the Federal […] In some respects, it can seem like the Vision for Space Exploration sprung forth in January 2004 with little advance notice: other than rumblings and rumors that a new space policy was in the works in the months and weeks leading up to the announcement, there was little substantial indication that NASA and the administration […] It’s an argument we have all heard many times: why should we spend money on space when we can spend it on X (where X is education, health care, medical research, etc.) That’s an issue that Eric Hedman tackles in this week’s issue of The Space Review, looking at the struggles for funding NASA versus […] Florida Today reports Monday that the state of Florida is considering merging several of its space-related organizations into a single entity dubbed “Space Florida”. These organizations include the Florida Space Authority, Florida Space Research Institute, and the Florida Aerospace Finance Corp., which would continue as departments within Space Florida. This move was not unexpected, since […] Everyone’s in favor a new spaceport, until someone mentions the T word. Taxes. The Albuquerque Tribune, following up on this week’s announcement of Virgin Galactic setting up operations as a to-be-built New Mexico spaceport, tracks down how the spaceport will be paid for. The majority of the money, including $100 million in capital outlays and […] The announcement this week that Virgin Galactic will establish operations at a new spaceport in New Mexico raises a question: just who is going to pay for building the spaceport, estimated to cost between $200 and $250 million? The state is expected to provide at least $100 million towards its construction (the rest to come […] The Strategic Research Institute announced yesterday that the 3rd Annual Commercial Remote Sensing Industry Conference, to be held in Washington DC in February, will focus on “new initiatives and legislation authorizing appropriations to the remote sensing industry”. Among the speakers will be Congressman Mark Udall “from the District of Colorado”. District of Colorado? I hadn’t […] Reuters reports that the ax has fallen on part of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program. To deal with the program’s extensive cost overruns, the Defense Department plans to reduce the number of satellites in the program from the original five to two, with an option for a third. (The sensor payloads to be […] There was an interesting article last week in the San Antonio Express-News about the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), a joint US-Mexico project currently under construction atop a mountain in central Mexico. The LMT is a large radio telescope that astronomers hope to use to probe the early history of the universe and study clouds of […] The last time NASA launched a spacecraft that used radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), the Cassini mission in October 1997, there was a modest amount of controversy surrounding the launch. The fear of radioactive contamination in the event of a launch accident, and ill-defined concerns by anti-nuclear activists that this was the spearhead for the “nuclearization” […] |
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