Stunning New Pictures of Mars Moon Phobos Apr 12, 2008
by on Friday April 11, @11:47AM () Relax, they're just scouting out locations for a Union Aerospace Corporation base. Let's hope the teleportation experiments work this time. (Slashdot)
Australian Farmer Finds Mysterious Ball of Space Junk Mar 28, 2008
Suspecting it was a piece of space junk, Stirton contacted the Aerospace Corporation a research arm of the U.S. government to get some sort of confirmation. "I know about sheep and cattle, but I don't know much about satellites," he said. (Fox News)
Richard J. Dionne is the owner of Rich Dionne Construction Mar 26, 2008
I worked for Aerospace Corporation for a year and then on to SAIC on a Y2K contract. I later joined a team of information security professionals at U.S. Customs from 2000 to 2006. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Seasprite parts for sale for $40m Mar 22, 2008
The nine helicopters that have been delivered to date - two short of the 11 agreed when the contract was signed in 1997 - will be returned to the US manufacturer, Kaman Aerospace Corporation. Senior officials from the Defence Materiel Organisation were flying back to Australia yesterday after agreeing that Kaman would then be able to sell these aircraft, the first casualties of a review of $23billion of under-performing defence contracts. (NEWS.com.au)
Japanese Satellite First to Use Magnetic Memory Mar 15, 2008
m Aerospace Corporation) is smaller, leaving more space for transponders and other signal transmitters and receivers. The reason: thanks to its speed, capacity and durability, MRAM can do the job of both flash memory and static random access memory (SRAM) that normally are part of a satellite's electronics. (Scientific American)
Letters to the Editor Feb 28, 2008
In all likelihood, the risk of the satellite (or its fuel) injuring anyone was minuscule: The well-regarded Aerospace Corporation estimates that "the risk that an individual will be hit and injured is estimated to be less than one in one trillion.". The hydrazine fuel, too, would have burned up during reentry and, in any case, its toxicity is not so high as to prevent the Air Force from transporting it by rail, sea, and even roadways. (Christian Science Monitor)
Accelerated Building Concepts Corporation Announces $1.4 Million Contract Authorization With Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Feb 26, 2008
4 Million Contract Authorization With Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation: Financial News - Yahoo ... 4 Million Contract Authorization With Gulfstream Aerospace CorporationTuesday February 26, 9:00 am ET Flight Test Equipment / Flight Test Instrument Building Budget of $1 ... 4 Million for Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. (Primezone Releases)
Missile Intercept Of U.S. Satellite Highlights Space Policy Issues Feb 22, 2008
According to the Aerospace Corporation s Center for Orbital and Reentry Studies in El Segundo, California, some debris from reentering objects do survive the plunge and can strike the Earth. Certain materials, those with high melting points -- such as stainless steel, titanium and glass -- are more likely to survive reentry than are materials with low melting points. (Science Daily)
Young Stars In Their Baby Blanket Of Dust Feb 13, 2008
The multiband imaging photometer for Spitzer was built by Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, Colo. the University of Arizona; and Boeing North American, Canoga Park, Calif. (Science Daily)
Dramatic Wind Action Detailed On Mars Jan 28, 2008
29, 2005) Global Aerospace Corporation of Altadena, CA proposes that the Mars exploration vehicle combining the global reach similar to that of orbiters and high resolution observations enabled by rovers could. (Aug. (Science Daily)
MTC Awarded $4.1 Million to Perform International C-130 Aircraft Maintenance Dec 25, 2007
Asian Aerospace Corporation, located at Clark International Airport, Republic Of The Philippines, will perform the hands-on aircraft maintenance ... "We are delighted to be teamed with innovative companies like Asian Aerospace Corporation and our longtime partner, Kellstrom Industries, and we are excited about the possibilities of extending this partnership to other overseas operators of the C-130 Hercules." MTC delivers Warfighter solutions involving systems engineering, information technology,... (PR Newswire)
Supercomputers Offer New Explanation Of Tunguska Disaster Dec 20, 2007
31, 2005) In a study to be published this week in the journal Nature, scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division, the University of Western Ontario, the Aerospace Corporation, and Sandia and Los Alamos. . (Science Daily)
Dubai International Capital's Global Strategic Equities Fund Acquires Substantial Stake in Sony Corporation Nov 26, 2007
DIC is also a founding shareholder of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a company building a global aerospace corporation that encompasses aircraft leasing, manufacturing, services, airports and education. In addition, DIC has a joint venture with CBRE that provides real estate asset management services in Dubai and the broader Middle East region. (PR Newswire)
Northrop Grumman-Built Defense Support Program Flight 23 Satellite Successfully Launched Nov 11, 2007
The DSP team includes the Air Force Space and Missile Center, Northrop Grumman, Aerospace Corporation, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide. (Primezone Releases)
Appointment of some elected officials may come to a vote Nov 8, 2007
This is in connection with the City's financial assistance package to Quartz Mountain Aerospace Corporation, formerly Luscombe. The trust authority then adjourned. (Altus Times, OK)
U.S. Air Force Set to Launch 23rd and Final Northrop Grumman-Built Defense Support Program Satellite On November 10 Nov 8, 2007
Its teammates include the Aerospace Corporation, and Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. Northrop Grumman's disciplined approach to evolving the DSP system through four major upgrades has allowed the satellites to exceed their initially required design lives by 150 percent. (Primezone Releases)
Foreign firms fly highleasing planes to China Oct 23, 2007
Morrissey echoed Qus views, saying leasing companies need to get approvals from the National Development and Reform Commission and Civil Aviation Administration of China or China Aerospace Corporation before buying an airplane. He said this not only hinders the development of Chinas aircraft leasing industry, but also makes Chinese airlines pay more money. (Asia Times Online)
National Expo Teams With New Partners to Make College a Reality for Thousands of Local Youth Oct 16, 2007
National sponsors for the 2007-2008 Black College Expo include: Wells Fargo, Pro-Line/Alberto Culver, Nix Check Cashing, Southwest Airlines, Fed Ex, Los Angeles County Sheriff Dept., US Army, Universal Music, Capitol/EMI Records, Black Enterprise, Aerospace Corporation, Upscale Magazine, Internal Revenue Service, KFC/Yum. Brands, Union Bank, Nu Boss, CVS/pharmacy, Student Funding Group, Scion, Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae Fund and Safeway. (PR Newswire)
Space tourism ready for take-off Oct 2, 2007
William Ballhaus, the chief executive of Aerospace Corporation, estimates it costs around $20 000 to fire a kilogram of matter into space. South African entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose private company SpaceX has a contract with the US government to send satellites into orbit, believes "private space travel should model itself on other high-tech sectors" such as data processing to bring costs down. (iAfrica.com)
`Set up system to warn asteroids hitting Earth` Sep 28, 2007
Hyderabad, Sept 25: We need to keep a close watch on the objects flying very close to the earth, William Ailor, Director of Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the The Aerospace Corporation, US said ... Though the chances of an humanity-destructing asteroid hitting the Earth is one in a thousand this century, we need to keep a close watch on the objects flying very close to the Earth, William Ailor, Director of Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the The Aerospace... (Zee News)
Multi-National SC Johnson Heads AARP's 2007 List of Best Employers for Workers Over 50 Sep 25, 2007
The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, CA 24. Cornell University Ithaca, NY 25. (PR Newswire)
United Devices, Univa to Merge Sep 25, 2007
In other grid news, the Open Grid Forum has announced that Craig Lee of The Aerospace Corporation will succeed HP's Mark Linesch as OGF president. Back to. (eSecurityPlanet)
A very private war Sep 18, 2007
The secretary stood before a gaggle of former corporate executives from Enron, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Aerospace Corporation whom he had tapped as his top deputies at the department of defense, and he issued a declaration of war. "The topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America," Rumsfeld thundered. (Guardian Unlimited)
Local companies boost lobbying dollars Sep 17, 2007
The world's largest aerospace corporation, second-biggest defense contractor and one of the leading U.S. exporters has 16 registered lobbyists in its 150-person Washington office, plus many more on retainer at two dozen outside lobbying firms. Boeing is fighting for continued funding of the Air Force's C-17 aircraft, which it builds, and other defense appropriations. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Delays for Laurentian Aerospace Aug 24, 2007
It was just a little over a year ago that Laurentian Aerospace corporation announced that they wanted to come here and construct a 224,000 square foot hanger for maintenance, repairs and overhauls of wide body aircraft. Then Governor George Pataki was highly optimistic about the future of the company. (WCAX.com, VT)
CNW Daybook for Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Aug 14, 2007
2331, (416) 948-0195 (cell) URL: TIME: 09:00 EVENT: FALL 2007 CGTA GIFT SHOW CITY: TORONTO LOCATION: Toronto International Centre 6900 Airport Road, Toronto Congress Centre 650 Dixon Road CONTACT: Nicolee Tattersall/Stephanie Janda, The Idea Workshop Limited, Office: (416) 504-3977 x26/27 URL: TIME: 10:00 EVENT: HEALTH MINISTER MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE FUTURE OF THE TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE CITY: TORONTO LOCATION: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute 550 University Avenue Outside the... (Canada Newswire)
Segal: Corporate Extortion Racket Jul 25, 2007
Those are impressive numbers, worthy of the worlds largest aerospace corporation. But the most impressive figure of all is 3. (Zmag.org)
Dubai Aerospace bids for Auckland Airport Jul 23, 2007
DAE says on its website that it is building a global aerospace corporation that includes manufacturing, services, airports and education, looking to international partnerships to grow in emerging markets. lect. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Tiny threatCould microsatellites pose a world wide threat? Jul 19, 2007
This has provided the sophisticated technology necessary for "pocket-sized" satellites, an idea theorised in the early 1990s by Siegfried W. Janson, senior scientist at The Aerospace Corporation in California. But the UCS warns that microsatellites could also be used in more destructive circumstances. (BBC News -- Technology)
Wilkinson students bring girl power to HGTC career camp Jun 26, 2007
Next month, the group will travel to Savannah to tour Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation to further their real world experience. Across campus, another group was putting the finishing touches on T-shirts each camper designed and had printed using graphic design software. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
Jim Howlett: Volunteerism at its finest Jun 24, 2007
Howlett spent many years working for Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Long Island, New York. In 1994, the company merged with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman. (Sulphur Southwest Daily News, LA)
QMA lays off workers May 31, 2007
Although the administrator posted a story on their Web site last Tuesday stating that the company was considering a second shift to meet growing production needs, Quartz Mountain Aerospace Corporation has layed-off some 20 workers this week stating that it has reached a point where they had more workers than work for them to do. Quartz Mountain Aerospace rolled its first production model 11E off the assembly line early last month, and has said that it has orders for the first three years of... (Altus Times, OK)
America -- the world's arms pusher May 21, 2007
TAI Turkey's aerospace corporation will receive a boost with this sale because Lockheed Martin is handing over responsibility for portions of production, assembly and testing to Turkish workers. The Turkish air force already has 215 F-16 fighter planes and plans to buy 100 of Lockheed Martin's new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as well, in a deal estimated at $10. (Los Angeles Times)
Barouski: Mining in Congo May 16, 2007
He is director of the Chairman's Council of the Americas Society and a member of the International Advisory Council of the United States Information Agency, the Board of Overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth, the International Advisory Board of Power Corporation of Canada, the International Advisory Board of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, the International Advisory Board of AEA Investors Incorporated, and is a board member of Panamerican Beverages Incorporated (a Coca-Cola... (Zmag.org)
New Technologies For James Webb Space Telescope Approved Early May 8, 2007
They include: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Ball Aerospace Corporation, Teledyne Imaging Systems, Utah State University s Space Dynamics Lab, Alliant Techsystems, Sheldahl, and Raytheon Vision Systems. The telescope is planned for launch in 2013. (Science Daily)
Airport to land plane maker May 4, 2007
VX Aerospace Corporation is expected to announce Monday that it will be locating an airplane and parts manufacturing facility at the airport, potentially creating 579 jobs within seven years, according to a company filing to the Airport Authority. Officials with the Airport Authority declined to comment, but a mailed invitation says the airport will have n exciting business announcement Monday. (Lenoir News Topic, NC)
Pluto-bound New Horizons Provides New Look At Jupiter System May 2, 2007
The mission team also includes Ball Aerospace Corporation, the Boeing Company, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, KinetX Inc. (navigation team), Lockheed Martin Corporation, University of Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a number of other firms, NASA centers, and university partners. To view the news images from New Horizons Web site. (Science Daily)
The Hidden Life of Thunderstorms Apr 21, 2007
Image courtesy The Aerospace Corporation. Thunderstorms are also huge electrical dynamos. (FirstScience.com)
Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone Apr 20, 2007
Caltech manages JPL for NASA. Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer, which collected the new data, was built by Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, Colo. the University of Arizona; and Boeing North American, Canoga Park, Calif. (Science Daily)
Northrop Grumman Recognizes 71 Suppliers With Gold Award for Excellence in Quality of Products, Services Apr 18, 2007
ASRC Aerospace Corporation Greenbelt, Md. AT&T Government Solutions, Inc. Vienna, Va. (Primezone Releases)
Obituaries - 4/10/2007 Tapolchanji,JohnGolden, MaryFeeney, BarbaraGuffin, RonaldHvoslef, RagnarJensen, EleanorLoop, DavidNilson, LeonaRoss, Mark Apr 10, 2007
He started his career at North American Aviation (now part of the Boeing Company), and finished at Aerospace Corporation, working as project engineer on strategic classified Air Force defense satellites. In 1981, he married Marian Flowers and became a loving stepfather to Jim, Michael. (North County Times)
Flaming Objects Miss Jetliner in Air Mar 29, 2007
About 50 meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere every day -- mostly burning up as they speed toward the planet -- said Bill Ailor, director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif. Those that survive and hit the ground are called meteorites. (Herald Sun)
Navy's troubled helicopter may yet fly Mar 28, 2007
He will argue that case today in cabinet's national security committee but a senior Government source said a legal challenge from the manufacturer, Kaman Aerospace Corporation, was formidable and "potentially lethal" to Dr Nelson's vision. Kaman maintains that it met every aspect of its 1997 contract with Defence - it was just that Defence changed the airworthiness requirements and then did not communicate them properly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Author to speak about cancer experience at Abilene Public Library Mar 21, 2007
The couple met and married in Kansas, before moving to southern California, where Visel worked as a marketing consultant for Aerospace Corporation. Visel is currently an independent marketing consultant and writer. (Abilene Recorder Chronicle)
Air Force Notes 50th Launch Mar 15, 2007
Air Force's satellite-loaded Atlas V is 50th launch success. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif. (DOD DefenseLINK)
NASA faces funding crunch in hunt for killer asteroids Mar 14, 2007
William Ailor of the Aerospace Corporation, a not-for-profit U.S. Air Force research group that sponsored the planetary defense conference, said that the problem of finding killer asteroids could be solved more easily if more countries were involved. Interest is growing, he said, noting that the European Space Agency was planning a mission called Don Quijote to test ways to deflect asteroids. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Big blasts or tiny tugs: how to stop an asteroid catastrophe Mar 12, 2007
The Planetary Defence Conference, organised by the US Aerospace Corporation, will bring together scores of ideas on how to develop technology to track and deflect objects heading towards the Earth. The gathering will also consider the sticky problem of public relations - is it best to warn people if the worst comes to the worst. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
Astronomers hash out defense against asteroids Mar 9, 2007
William Ailor of the Aerospace Corporation and general chair of the conference, says it will be posted on the when finalised. But he hopes it won't stop there. (Nature News Service)
Planetary Defense Conference Feb 12, 2007
The Aerospace Corporation. Space Studies Institute. (NASA Watch)
Seasprite headed for the junk pile Feb 10, 2007
The Defence Department has recommended that the contract with US manufacturer Kaman Aerospace Corporation be terminated. And senior government sources say the axe could fall on the project to refurbish the Vietnam-era helicopters as soon as next Wednesday's meeting of federal cabinet's National Security Committee. (The Australian)
Vista, Microsoft respond to speech recognition hacks Feb 4, 2007
Posted February 01, 2007 @ 10:34PM by Just as an unrelated thing, when I see UAC, I still think Union Aerospace Corporation. Posted February 01, 2007 @ 10:38PM by Are there any reviews about how good this speech recognition actually is. (Ars Technica)
Chinas Direct Ascent ASAT Feb 3, 2007
According to a Chinese engineer who worked with Fourth Academy of the China Aerospace Corporation, responsible for solid rocket motors, China was only able to make the rocket motor for the DF-21 work reliably after receiving solid fuel rocket motor insulation technology from the former U.S. Martin Marietta Corporation ... At the 2006 Zhuhai Airshow the China Aerospace Corporation revealed its Air Launched Launch Vehicle (ALLV), which is a small solid fueled missile launched from a PLA Xian H-6... (Ocnus.net)
AGU journal highlights -- January 22, 2007 Jan 23, 2007
Authors: J. D. Anderson: Global Aerospace Corporation, Altadena, California, U.S.A.; G. Schubert: Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10. (EurekAlert!)
2006 Year-In-Review: Aerospace Jan 1, 2007
Upstart commercial space companies Rocketplane Limited, Inc. and Kistler Aerospace Corporation join forces. New name. (Aero-News Network)
