Burlington VT (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
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

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
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

London UK (AFNS) Mar 17, 2021
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

London, UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
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

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
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

Washington DC (AFNS) Mar 17, 2021
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."

Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 18, 2021
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

Herndon VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
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

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2021

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

Washington (AFP) March 19, 2021
NASA successfully carried out a key static test of its troubled Space Launch System rocket on Thursday, a win for the agency as it prepares to return to the Moon. The second "hot fire" test saw all four of the rocket's RS-25 engines fire simultaneously at 4:40 pm Eastern time (2040 GMT) for the full duration of eight minutes, producing a maximum of 1.6 million pounds of thrust (7.1 million n