Space Business News and Space Technology News 02-MAR-07 en-us Houston TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - A newly-formed subsidiary of SkyPort International has signed a letter of intent to purchase RAMTelecom Inc. of Canada, a transaction that will significantly increase SkyPort's capability to serve customers throughout North America with a range of satellite communications services.]]> Tokyo (AFP) Mar 01, 2007 - Thousands of people bade farewell Tuesday to the Japanese inventor of instant noodles in a sci-fi funeral befitting a man whose creation has gone round the planet and into space. Momofuku Ando, who died on January 5 at age 96, was symbolically blasted off into space at a ceremony in a baseball stadium in the western city of Osaka. Ando triggered a revolution in 1958 when he created a dried noodle cake that could turn into a meal by adding hot water.]]> Washington DC (VOA) Feb 28, 2007 - A memorial service marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Apollo 1 accident. A fire in the cockpit during a routine test killed all three astronauts onboard. NASA's Space Operations chief, William Gerstenmaier, says the agency continues to learn from its mistakes.]]> Poway CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - SpaceDev announced today that its subsidiary, Starsys, Inc., has been awarded a $1.4 million cost reimbursable design and development subcontract with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in support of the Mars Science Laboratory mission. Starsys will develop and deliver electromechanical Descent Brake dampers. The contract period of performance is approximately 18 months.]]> Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - Aerojet recently conducted an internally-funded static firing of a key Launch Abort System component. Orion's Launch Abort System is a new capability that will allow the astronaut crew to safely escape in the event of an emergency during launch. Aerojet's test of an abort motor reverse flow nozzle increases the technical readiness of the Launch Abort System concept.]]> Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2007 - Dr. Mason Peck from the Cornell University College of Engineering received a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I $75,000 award to study an innovative idea for altering spacecraft orbits in future missions. His paper, Lorentz-Actuated Orbits: Electrodynamic Propulsion without a Tether, made a compelling case for merging the small-scale physics of dust moving in a plasma and large-scale physics of planetary orbits to enable propellant-less spacecraft propelled by planetary magnetic fields.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Mar 01, 2007 - Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, the Dutch former Minister of Economic Affairs, has recently been appointed advisor to ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain. Brinkhorst has been a prominent figure in the Dutch and European Union political environment. In December 2005 he successfully chaired the ESA Ministerial Council in Berlin. Today, he lends his wealth of experience in European politics to support ESA's future development.]]> Moorestown NJ, February 27, 2007 - The U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) today awarded Lockheed Martin $979,175,217 for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System.]]> Louisville KY (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - Raytheon has been awarded a five-year, $169.9 million Performance Based Logistics contract to manage the spare parts for the U.S. Navy's Phalanx Close-In Weapon System. More than 1,100 part numbers amounting to more than 30,000 individual Phalanx parts are warehoused in Louisville where, for a firm-fixed-price, Raytheon, in partnership with United Parcel Service Supply Chain Solutions, guarantees delivery of spares to drop points within an agreed-to time frame.]]> Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - Raytheon plans to offer the Army a world-class team in a bid for the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). "We plan to forge an all-star team that combines battle-proven air defense expertise with advanced technology and a revolutionary approach," said Pete Franklin, vice president for Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. "We will offer the Army an affordable solution by 2011."]]> White Sands NM (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - Northrop Grumman's Hunter-Viper Strike weapon system successfully destroyed a series of moving and stationary targets in testing at the White Sands Missile Range in January. The Viper Strike weapons were guided to their targets by the Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle's (UAV) laser targeting system. The weapons tests were conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office (PEO) for Aviation and the PEO for Missiles and Space.]]> Washington (UPI) Mar 01, 2007 - An underwater robot, shaped like a flattened orange, maneuvered untethered and autonomously within a 115-meter-deep sinkhole during tests this month in Mexico, a prelude to its mission to probe the mysterious nether reaches of the world's deepest sinkhole. Bill Stone, leader of the NASA-funded Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) mission, said the 2.5-meter-diameter vehicle performed "phenomenally well" during early February tests in the geothermal sinkhole, or cenote, known as La Pilita.]]> West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 01, 2007 - Purdue University researchers have created a handheld sensing system its creators liken to Star Trek's "tricorder" used to analyze the chemical components of alien worlds. But the system could have down-to-earth applications, such as testing foods for dangerous bacterial contaminants including salmonella, which was recently found in a popular brand of peanut butter.]]> SOLAR ENERGY SOLUTIONS
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