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Hewlett-Packard Beats Out Lockheed for $2.5 Billion NASA Contract
6:30PM 12/29/2010
Hewlett-Packard has won a contract worth up to $2.5 billion to supply computer equipment -- including hardware and software -- and information-technology services to NASA. HP's gain is Lockheed Martin's loss: Lockheed had been NASA's IT supplier until now.
Virgin Galactic, which aims to be the world's first commercial space carrier, successfully tested its suborbital spaceship, Enterprise.
Enterprise made its first solo test flight in California on Sunday, BBC News reported. The spaceship was carried to 45,000 feet by a plane, then dropped to glide...
NASA's Main Space Contractor to Lay Off 15% of Workforce
8:25AM 7/07/2010
NASA's main space contractor is laying off 15 percent of its shuttle-related workers, as reductions in the space program bite.
United Space Alliance, which handles the day-to-day management of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, will lay off workers in Florida, Alabama and Texas, effective October 1,...
President Obama's plan to scrap the Constellation space program designed to send U.S. astronauts to the moon is being blasted by senators from states with heavy space industries. The policy shift reignites questions about the mission of the U.S. space program and the role of private companies in that effort.
Is NASA still the best use of US tax dollars?
5:00PM 11/30/2009
Despite cost overruns totaling nearly $1.1 billion in nine of its flagship projects, NASA will see its 2010 fiscal year budget increase to $18.7 billion. Combined with the $1 billion NASA got from the new stimulus package, that's $2.4 billion more than the space agency received in 2008. But there...
Plans for solar power from outer space move forward
7:00AM 9/26/2009
A California technology startup is rapidly pushing forward with plans to build the first space-based solar power station to beam 200 megawatts of electricity back to Earth via microwaves to a receiving station near Fresno. The firm, Solaren Space, has been pushing for space-based power since 2001...
Japan plans massive solar power station to orbit earth
7:00PM 9/03/2009
There's greentech and then there's Martian greentech. A group of Japanese companies unveiled plans to build a 1-gigawatt solar power collector in space, according to Earth2Tech. The system would beam the power back to Earth using radio waves. This sort of system has been discussed in the past, but...
Money still matters in zero gravity or hey, that's my toilet!
10:00AM 4/06/2009
You'd think being surrounded by the cold and endless void known as space would be enough to get nations to leave their money squabbling behind, but that's not the case. Ever since Russia started charging the U.S. to send astronauts to the International Space Station, other countries have responded...
When it comes to the bulk-buying ball, I'm a wallflower. I've been to Costco and Sam's Club, of course, but mostly in the way that most people visit the zoo. I walk the aisles, platter-eyed, in admiration of what's on view, but I know that it would be suicide to take anything home with me.That's...
That some businesses are working on space tourism isn't that new, but something that really caught my attention recently is that university researchers are studying this? It's not just NASA and members of The Jetsons fan club.A report on this subject by two professors was recently announced by the...
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