The following are statements from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John P. Holdren about the berthing of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: „Today, with the successful berthing of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo module to … Dowiedz się więcej
Thales Alenia Space today announced the signature of a contract with Telespazio worth more than 120 million euros, within the scope of a contract for the supply of EGNOS services (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), signed by ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider) and Telespazio in July 2013. The overall contract covers EGNOS support and maintenance … Dowiedz się więcej
Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) announced today it has received the 2012 Maintenance Excellence Award from the U.S. Naval Reserve Tactical Support Wing (TSW) for support of the Composite Fighter Squadron VFC-111, based in Key West, Fla. The award is the 11th for SAS since the program started in 2001. SAS is the worldwide aftermarket business … Dowiedz się więcej
Astronomers using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton space observatories have caught a fast-spinning ‘millisecond pulsar’ in a crucial evolutionary phase for the first time, as it swings between emitting pulses of X-rays and radio waves. Pulsars are spinning, magnetised neutron stars, the dead cores of massive stars that exploded as a dramatic supernova after having burned … Dowiedz się więcej
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe. The ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is packed with an extraordinary number of stars and may be the densest galaxy near Earth. It is providing astronomers … Dowiedz się więcej
You can watch the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station at a special viewing party at the Gilruth Center, located on NASA’s Johnson Space Center campus, starting at 2:45 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the facility’s Alamo Ballroom. The public entrance to the Gilruth Center is off Space Center Blvd., … Dowiedz się więcej