Exelis (NYSE: XLS) successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate the behavior of GPS signals in space, which will be used for testing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS ground station known as the operational control system (OCX). … Dowiedz się więcej
For the first time, a NASA airborne campaign will measure changes in the height of the Greenland Ice Sheet and surrounding Arctic sea ice produced by a single season of summer melt. NASA’s C-130 research aircraft flew from the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., to Greenland Wednesday where they will conduct survey flights … Dowiedz się więcej
Traces of iron spread smoothly throughout a massive galaxy cluster tell the 10 billion-year-old story of exploding supernovae and fierce outbursts from supermassive black holes sowing heavy elements throughout the early cosmos. New evidence of heavy elements spread evenly between the galaxies of the giant Perseus cluster supports the theory that the universe underwent a … Dowiedz się więcej
Following the decision to replace a unit in the Breeze upper stage of the Rockot launcher, the launch of ESA’s magnetic field mission Swarm from Plesetsk, Russia, has been postponed. Originally scheduled for 14 November, the launch is expected to be delayed by about one week. More details will be given as they become available. … Dowiedz się więcej
Mr. David Gregory, President of The CanRep Group Inc., is pleased to announce that its MRO company AvTec Aero Maintenance Inc. of Saint-Laurent, Qc has concluded an agreement with ASE S.p.A. of Milan, Italy in which AvTec Aero has been appointed as ASE’s first foreign Approved Service Center. ASE S.p.A. is a well established design, … Dowiedz się więcej
For the first time, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and NASA engineers powered on the Orion crew module at Kennedy Space Center last week. The test successfully demonstrated the crew module avionics were integrated properly and are in good health. During the test, operators in the Test Launch and Control Center (TLCC) introduced software scripts to … Dowiedz się więcej