Aerospace Highlights
Aerospace Engineer Pilots C-17 to the Cape
Posted July 20, 2012Dr. Kamran Aslam, an Aerospace project engineer, recently piloted a C-17 loaded with the next GPS satellite from El Segundo, Calif., to Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aslam, who works in the Aerospace GPS Block IIF program office, is also a captain in the Air Force Reserves, based at March Air Force Base near Riverside. The GPS [...] More »
Stepping into STEM History
Posted July 10, 2012Individual Aerospace employees have long been involved in mentoring activities for students with an inclination toward science, but most coordinated efforts to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) trace their origins to two events in 2006. On Jan. 31 of that year, President George W. Bush announced the American Competitiveness Initiative [...] More »
Telstar Opened Commercial Space
Posted July 09, 2012July 10, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first commercial communications satellite, indeed the first commercial satellite launch of any type, Telstar 1. Less than two weeks later, at 3 p.m. EDT on July 23, Telstar 1 beamed a program of live transatlantic television images between Western Europe, the United States, [...] More »
Delta IV Heavy Powers to Orbit with Upgraded Engines
Posted July 02, 2012America’s most powerful launch vehicle, the triple-barreled Delta IV Heavy, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Friday morning, June 29, carrying a classified payload. The mammoth rocket was the first Delta IV Heavy to launch with upgraded RS-68A engines that increased the thrust of each of the three common booster cores from approximately 758,000 pounds to [...] More »
Students Show Spirit in Herndon Competition
Posted June 27, 2012Middle and high school students demonstrated their well-rehearsed science experiments to Aerospace and Space and Missile Systems Center employees June 7 in the A5-A8 courtyard at the 35th Annual Robert H. Herndon Memorial Science Competition in El Segundo. A Herndon competition was also conducted earlier in Chantilly on April 19. A Renewable Energy Source for [...] More »
Dr. Wanda Austin Interviewed for the Change the Equation/Roadtrip Nation STEM Project
Posted June 26, 2012They don’t know how cool math and science can be. But Aerospace engineers and scientists will soon have a chance to tell students around the country about the exciting things they do in their jobs. It’s part of a national initiative that Aerospace joined in fall 2010. Change the Equation (CTEq), started in September 2010, [...] More »
EELV Hits Five-O with Atlas Launch
Posted June 21, 2012An Atlas V rocket rose into the bright Florida sky Wednesday morning, marking a milestone for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. The successful liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 41 at 8:28 a.m. EDT, June 20, was the 50th launch in the EELV program. In a cost-saving move, it was also the first EELV [...] More »
A First for the Atlas V
Posted June 14, 2012The upcoming Atlas V launch scheduled for June 18 from Cape Canaveral will mark the first time an Atlas V rocket has flown without a wet dress rehearsal. The term “wet” dress rehearsal refers to the fact that the rocket is actually loaded with liquid fuel as part of a run-through of launch procedures. The [...] More »
Atlas V Launches Second AEHF
Posted May 07, 2012An Atlas V rocket rose atop a column of flame into the afternoon sky off Florida’s Space Coast Friday, May 4, carrying the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite. The Atlas, launched with the aid of three strap-on solid rocket motors, took less than an hour to place the nearly seven-ton payload into [...] More »
Aerospace Checks Out Electric Car Power
Posted April 20, 2012Capturing, storing, and using electrical energy has always been a key issue in the design of spacecraft. Lately, it’s also become a hot topic in the automotive world, and The Aerospace Corporation is ready to contribute its expertise in batteries. Several years ago, Aerospace was hired by CODA Automotive to evaluate batteries that the Los [...] More »
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