Aerospace Highlights
GPS for Humanity
Posted December 07, 2012Practically everyone knows what GPS is, but probably not everyone is aware that it can be used to help fight malaria, track an endangered fish, or even help deliver construction materials. Dr. Bradford Parkinson, former chair of Aerospace’s board of trustees and one of the principal developers of GPS, gave a presentation on Nov. 30, which he dedicated to Aerospace engineers and supporters. More »
SAMPEX Mission Returns to Earth
Posted November 21, 2012A NASA satellite — the Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer or SAMPEX — plunged toward Earth on Nov. 13, burning up completely in the atmosphere and closing the book on one of the most productive space weather observation platforms of all time. More »
Aerospace Employee Receives Highest NASA Honor
Posted November 14, 2012Peter Phillips, a systems director based at the Goddard Space Flight Center, recently received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the agency’s highest honor for a non-government employee. More »
Live Longer and Healthier: Aerospace Champions Wellness
Posted November 12, 2012It is indeed a fact that we aren’t getting any younger, but what if we could live healthy, active lifestyles well into our 90s just by harnessing some powerful, yet simple, principles that are at our fingertips just for the asking? Aerospace recently became a Designated Blue Zones Worksite, which allows employees to tap into [...] More »
Reentry on the Record
Posted October 03, 2012The fourth Aerospace-designed Reentry Breakup Recorder returned to Earth Tuesday evening, Oct. 2, after successfully recording data during the reentry and breakup of the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry Edoardo Amaldi, known as ATV-3. More »
President’s and Trustees’ Awards Go to 17
Posted September 21, 2012Seventeen employees were presented with the corporation’s highest honors at the 33rd annual President’s and Trustees’ Distinguished Achievement Awards ceremony Sept. 20 at the corporation’s headquarters. The President’s Distinguished Achievement Award was created to recognize an outstanding singular act; a piece of work accomplished over a period of days, weeks, month; or a lengthy sustained [...] More »
Atlas V Delivers Picosats to Orbit
Posted September 17, 2012An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Vandenberg AFB on Thursday, Sept. 13, carrying a national security satellite as well as 11 CubeSat satellites. Three of them, each weighing 1.3 kg in a 1U form factor, were built by The Aerospace Corporation. The rocket flew in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no [...] More »
Aerospace Instruments Launch on NASA Mission
Posted September 11, 2012A two-satellite NASA mission to study the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth launched in the predawn darkness Aug. 30 from Cape Canaveral AFS. The satellites were stowed aboard an Atlas V rocket flying in the 401 configuration — a four-meter fairing, no solid-rocket boosters, and one engine in the Centaur upper stage. Each of [...] More »
Gary Pulliam on Commercial Space
Posted August 27, 2012Gary Pulliam, vice president of Civil and Commercial Operations, will be retiring this fall. Before he leaves Aerospace, we thought we would get his perspective on commercial space and his time at Aerospace. Pulliam has 18 years of experience at Aerospace and has been vice president of Civil and Commercial Operations since 2004. He also [...] More »
History Beckons Commercial Space Industry
Posted August 09, 2012There are relatively few moments in history when virtually the entire public is in agreement that an event is “historic” at the time the event actually happens. Most great events that are ultimately deemed to be historic by historians, tradition, and public consensus are seen as being history-making moments only in hindsight, frequently after the [...] More »
« Previous Page — Next Page »