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AEHF Satellite Program Advances
MILSATCOM Systems Director James Liau delivered a detailed presentation on the current state of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program. More »
Aerospace Scientists Work With Single Layer of Carbon Atoms
A trio of Aerospace scientists has developed highly successful methods for growing graphene, characterizing it, and applying it toward reducing the weight of space batteries. More »
Space Industry Leaders Meet to Analyze New Budget Environment
Top space leaders focused on how best to balance mission success, affordability, and risk-taking during the fifth U.S. Space Enterprise Mission Assurance Summit, where the government and industry space community come together in their shared goal of mission success. More »
The Aerospace Corporation Announces Changes to Board
Aerospace board member and former ambassador Barbara M. Barrett has been elected vice chair of the board, and Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., USAF Ret., has retired as the board’s vice chair effective Dec. 14, 2012. More »
GPS for Humanity
Practically 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
A 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
Peter 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 »
Reentry on the Record
The 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
Seventeen 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
An 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 »
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