Boeing has appointed Jinnah Hosein as vice president of Software Engineering, effective immediately, to strengthen the company’s software engineering across the enterprise. Hosein will report to Greg Hyslop, Boeing chief engineer and senior vice president of Engineering, Test and Technology. "Jinnah will be a transformational leader for Boeing," said Dave Calhoun.
Read More »SpaceX Launches Satellite & Smallsats on Falcon 9 Rocket; Gabriel Cristian Absi Quoted
SpaceX has announced that its Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched on Aug. 30th, carrying the SAOCOM 1B mission, the company reported on Monday. The mission has placed the SAOCOM 1B spacecraft into orbit as well as two rideshare payloads, Tyvak-0172 and PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-1. The mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Read More »SpaceX Launching In-Flight Abort Mission Test to Prepare for Astronaut Transportation
SpaceX has announced the upcoming launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Jan. 18, 2019 to test the spacecraft’s in-flight abort capabilities, the company reported on Monday.
Read More »NASA Announces SpaceX Air US Cargo Ship Departure from ISS
SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) on Jan. 5. The spacecraft will carry almost 3,600 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, NASA announced on Thursday.
Read More »NRL Launches Plasma Sensor Experiment on SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft
The Naval Research Laboratory has deployed a plasma sensor platform aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft as part of the company's 17th cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. The Space PlasmA Diagnostic suitE is built to track space weather conditions around ISS and detect potential hazardous charging levels for the station, the U.S. Navy said Monday.
Read More »Aerospace Safety Panel Advises Against NASA’s Crew Test Flight Schedule
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel members are cautioning NASA that the schedules for upcoming crew test flights in August are too soon, Space News reported Monday. Patricia Sanders, who chairs ASAP, said at a meeting that the panel sees continued progress and a large amount of work to be done before …
Read More »GAO: Aggressive Schedules, Programmatic Risks Could Delay ISS Crew Transportation Certification
The Government Accountability Office has said the contractors that NASA tapped to carry out human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station have made progress when it comes to their spacecraft development efforts but continue to face schedule delays under the Commercial Crew Program. GAO said in a report published Wednesday …
Read More »GAO: NASA Needs Contingency Plan Amid Commercial Crew Program Delay
The Government Accountability Office has urged NASA to develop a contingency plan for U.S. operations at the International Space Station beyond 2018 as the contractors on the Commercial Crew Program are not able to meet certification requirements this year. GAO said in a report published February that Boeing and SpaceX have indicated they expect to achieve certification in …
Read More »NASA to Test Spacecraft Heat Exchanger Tech on ISS; Rubik Sheth Comments
NASA has sent a wax-based heat exchanger technology to the International Space Station through SpaceX‘s Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft that launched Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The agency said Thursday it developed the Phase Change Material Heat Exchanger with United Technologies Corp. for testing onboard the orbiting laboratory as part of the agency’s Game Changing Development initiative. PCM HX is designed to …
Read More »NASA Schedules 8th SpaceX Resupply Mission Launch for Early April
NASA has announced the launch date of the newest resupply service mission of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station as April 8. The launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station will be the eighth delivery of supplies under SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, the …
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