Reports: Biden to tap Bill Nelson as NASA administrator
Thursday, 18 March 2021 06:04
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President Joe Biden is expected to nominate former Sen. Bill Nelson, who once spent several days in space, to lead NASA, people familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday.
Multiple unnamed sources told The Washington Post, Politico and The Verge that Biden will likely make the announcement by Friday.
They added that the White House also was considering former NASA astronaut and re
Peraton awarded US Army hypersonic testing and evaluation contract
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Peraton has been awarded a U.S. Army contract for Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems (HyTEMPS), valued at up to $44 million over two years.
This award builds upon Peraton's more than 10 years of experience supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center and its mission to develop hypersonic vehicle technologies and provide hypers New Chinese satellite measures solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence
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Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red and infrared light wavelengths when excited by solar radiation. Measuring SIF is important because it is closely related to the terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), which calculates the total amount of carbon dioxide fixed through photosynthesis in 'Warfighter Council' Guides Capability Development for Space Development Agency
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As the Space Development Agency builds out the National Defense Space Architecture, it looks to a biannual "warfighter council" to provide guidance about what is actually important to those who will use the systems, the agency's director said today.
"We want to make sure that we address our customers," Derek Tournear said. "The customers, in this case, are the combatant commanders." Department of Defense Awards Relativity Space New Responsive Launch Contract
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Relativity Space has been awarded its first orbital launch contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
This contract was awarded as a Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Launch Enterprise follow-up effort to the DoD Space Test Program (STP) Rapid Agile Launch Initiative (RALI) to identify capable commercial solutions for low-cost Lockheed Martin well-positioned to capitalize on key technologies with Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition
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Following the news that Aerojet Rocketdyne's shareholders have voted to approve the Lockheed Martin acquisition;
Anthony Endresen, Aerospace and Defense Associate Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on what this deal will mean for Lockheed Martin:
"If Lockheed Martin's acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne is successful, the company will be well-p AFRL exchange officer leads international space collaboration
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Air Force Research Laboratory exchange officer to the United Kingdom Capt. Jacob Singleton, plays an important role in promoting international cooperation in military research, development and acquisition among the United Kingdom (UK), United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries.
Through the Department of Defense Engineer and Scientist Exchange program, Singleton h Mapping Liberia's ecosystems to understand their value
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Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted whether the forest was intact or degraded. Far above their heads, NASA's Earth-observing satellites collected data about the terrain as the satellites continued their well-travelled orbits over Africa.
The data collected by the te Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland's ice
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In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of scientists began drilling down through the Greenland ice sheet. Piece by piece, they extracted an ice core 4 inches across and nearly a mile long. At the very end, they pulled up something else - 12 feet of frozen soil.
The ice told a story of Earth's climate history. The frozen soil was examined, set aside and th The world's oldest crater from a meteorite isn't an impact crater after all
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Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it's actually the result of normal geological processes.
During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo's Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistent Nelson expected to be nominated for NASA administrator
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WASHINGTON — The White House plans to nominate Bill Nelson to be the next administrator of NASA, putting the former senator in charge of the agency he once advocated for on Capitol Hill.
According to several sources, the administration is expected to formally announce the nomination as soon as March 19.
Recruiting startup Evona expands to serve global market
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SAN FRANCISCO – Evona, a U.K. space industry recruiting startup, is preparing to establish a U.S. office as part of a campaign to help satisfy global demand for space sector employees.
Bristol-based Evona has been growing rapidly since it was founded in 2019 to recruit workers for entrepreneurial space companies.
NASA performs full-duration SLS Green Run static-fire test
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 21:21 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — NASA completed what appeared to be a successful static-fire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System March 18, two months after a similar test was cut short by technical problems.
The SLS core stage, mounted on a test stand at the Stennis Space Center, ignited its four RS-25 engines at 4:37 p.m.
Op-ed | Don’t discount the FAA’s role in the private space race
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 20:19 Write a comment
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has disrupted long-held beliefs of how the space business works and permanently expanded thinking about government contracting with industry. This impact has been felt throughout the national security, civil, and commercial space enterprises. Because of the lawsuit that it settled with the Air Force in 2015, old assumptions about the government’s launch market for national security launch services are gone.
Rogers: Proposed cuts to military spending ‘my biggest concern’
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said March 18 that he will challenge any proposed cuts to the Defense Department’s budget and called on the U.S.