[FPSPACE] FW: [lunar-update] FLORIDASPACErePORT - A chronicle of developments in the space industry, updated (almost) daily.

Tue Jul 3 16:46:50 EDT 2007



>From: Larry Kellogg <larry.kellogg at gmail.com>
>To: lunar-update at news.altair.com
>Subject: [lunar-update] FLORIDASPACErePORT - A chronicle of developments in 
>the space industry, updated (almost) daily.
>Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:43:27 -0700
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>FLORIDASPACErePORT
>A chronicle of developments in the space industry, updated (almost) daily.
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>Time passes and others post.
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>Take a look at Edward Ellegood's blog FLORIDASPACErePORT.
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>The shuttle has been returned to KSC.
>http://www.wesh.com/news/13612033/detail.html
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>Russia is launching satellites to space.
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>http://www.ohb-system.de/gb/News/presse/0307_07.html
>*Second SAR-Lupe satellite also successfully launched
>*Reconnaissance system available to the German Armed Forces as of the
>autumn
>
>Bremen/Plesetsk, 07-03-07
>
>The second satellite in the SAR-Lupe system has been placed successfully
>in orbit. The Russian Cosmos 3M launch vehicle lifted off last night
>from the Russian Plesetsk space center, south of Archangelsk, on
>schedule at 21:38:41 hours CEST. Roughly half an hour later, it released
>the radar satellite into its low-earth orbit at an altitude of roughly
>500 km.
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>   FLORIDA SPACErePORT <http://spacereport.blogspot.com/>
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>A chronicle of developments in the space industry, updated (almost) daily.
>
>
>       July 03, 2007
>
>*Homans Resigns Spaceport Authority Post* (Source: Las Cruces Sun-News)
>When Rick Homans took over as executive director of the New Mexico
>Spaceport Authority he said he would like to hand the job over to
>someone else sooner or later. On Monday, he announced that would happen
>sooner. Homans informed the NMSA that he was leaving his post for a job
>in the private sector. "When I took this job May 1, I made it very clear
>that I considered myself an 'interim' director and that one of my key
>jobs would be to find my replacement, a 'permanent' director," Homans
>wrote. Homans said his new job will be with a company that will
>establish its headquarters in New Mexico. His new position starts Aug.
>1. He did not specify the company.
>
>*Benson Space Company to Provide Low-G Rides* (Source: Benson)
>Using a patent pending combination of technology and technique, the
>newly designed suborbital space tourism spaceship from Benson Space
>Company (BSC) will produce rides that do not exceed approximately 3.0
>G's of force on passengers. This technology, in development since 2002,
>uses dive brakes with variable
>feathering to greatly reduce deceleration forces during descent and
>reentry. The BSC spaceship, which is based on an amalgam of the NASA and
>Air Force X-2, X-15 and T-38 vehicles, will spread its entry
>deceleration over a wide altitude band by changing the vehicle's
>ballistic coefficient (vehicle weight divided by drag area) during the
>atmospheric entry.
>
>*Europe and Russia Plan Next Generation Spaceship *(Source: The Register)
>Plans are underway to build a European alternative to the US's shuttle
>replacement Orion. The European Space Agency (ESA) has convened a series
>of meetings with key industrial groups in Europe to thrash out the
>details of new passenger launch systems. Russia will lead the
>feasibility study of various Crew Space Transportation Systems (CSTS),
>while Japan is also reported to be keen to be involved. Daniel Sacotte,
>the ESA's director of human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration
>told the BBC that the move was not about beating the US, or being
>isolationist.
>
>"We want to have parallel systems, to be cooperative; so that if one
>system has a failure, there is another one that allows space exploration
>to continue," he said. "We cannot rely on only one [transportation
>system]." The form the new launch system will take is still undecided.
>This decision will be the focal point of the meetings. It could be based
>on the well-established, if slightly ageing Russian Soyuz system, or it
>could be totally different. The eventual form the CSTS will take will
>depend on what it is most likely to be used for: low earth orbit
>missions may call for different hardware than a moon shot, for instance.
>
>*AF Holds To EELV Schedule *(Source: Aerospace Daily)
>The U.S. Air Force says it is holding firm on the planned launch dates
>for upcoming Atlas V and Delta IV missions using the Pratt & Whitney
>RL10 upper-stage engine, having traced the launch anomaly on a recent
>National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) classified satellite launch to a
>stuck valve on the Atlas V's Lockheed Martin Centaur upper stage. The
>Air Force says for now at least the late summer launch dates for the
>upcoming launch of the service's Wideband Gapfiller (WGS) communications
>spacecraft on an Atlas V with a Centaur and the final Defense Support
>Program missile warning satellite on a Delta IV Heavy using the RL10 in
>a different stage will remain unchanged. The Atlas V launch from Cape
>Canaveral is scheduled for Aug. 11 while the Delta IV Heavy flight is
>set for Aug. 28.
>
>*ICO Global Inks Deal with Loral* (Source: MarketWatch)
>ICO Global Communications said Tuesday it inked an agreement with Loral
>for the design of additional medium earth orbit satellites. Terms
>weren't disclosed. The company also said it's pursuing its litigation
>against Boeing concerning its medium earth orbit satellites.
>
>*Replacement Workers Take-On Endeavour Work During Strike* (Source:
>Florida Today)
>The orbiter Endeavour was hoisted up off its transporter in the Kennedy
>Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building by replacement crane operators as
>NASA pressed ahead with preparations for a planned Aug. 7 launch. The
>orbiter will be mated to an external tank with two attached solid rocket
>boosters before the fully assembled shuttle is hauled out to launch pad
>39A on July 11. The work is being done by an experienced team standing
>in for striking workers with the International Association of Machinists
>& Aerospace Workers union. USA put together a pool of people who all
>have experience in orbiter lifting operations, and former crane
>operators who all have up-to-date certifications are operating the
>lifting devices. The work is being done in two stages because of the
>strike.
>
>*NASA Extends Contract with Wyle Labs* (Source: Houston Business Journal)
>NASA has extended its contract with Wyle Laboratories. The $294 million
>contract extension will support the Space Life Sciences Directorate at
>NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The extension, which extends the
>contract to April 30, 2011, is the first of two options in NASA's
>contract with Wyle Laboratories. Terms of the bioastronautics contract
>call for Wyle's life sciences group, based in Houston, to support the
>International Space Station, space shuttle, constellation and human
>research programs. Wyle maintains readiness of space and life
>sciences-related facilities and laboratories; provides services for
>program integration, habitability and environmental factors; human
>adaptation and countermeasures; space medicine; flight hardware; and
>human research activities. The work is performed at Johnson, Kennedy
>Space Center in Florida and at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
>Galveston. A second option, if exercised, would extend the contract to
>April 30, 2013. If both options are exercised, the total potential value
>of the contract is $973 million.
>
>*Russian Rocket Blasts Off with German Satellite *(Source: Xinhua)
>A Russian rocket blasted off Monday night with a German satellite atop.
>The Kosmos-3M booster, carrying the German intelligence satellite
>SAR-Lupe-2, launched from the Plesetsk spaceport. According to a
>contract signed in 2003, Russia will send into orbit five such
>satellites, part of Germany's first satellite-based radar reconnaissance
>system.
>
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>The Aerospace Resource Center [ARC] for the State of Florida
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>The ARC is Florida's first designated industry resource center -- a
>one-stop shop for addressing the aviation and space industry's current
>and future workforce training needs. The following goals help to define
>the services the ARC will provide:
>
>     * Work with industry, education providers, and workforce development
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>       competitive.
>     * Develop skill sets for entry-level and advanced jobs, as well as
>       skills upgrades for the existing aerospace workforce.
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