Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KARI, to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer for the National Institute of Environmental Research in the Ministry of Environment of South Korea. Ball Aerospace and KARI will design, fabricate and test GEMS which is manifested on KARI’s GEO-KOMPSAT-2B geostationary satellite for a 2018 launch. Continue reading
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NASA Finds Spiny Dinosaur Prints in Own Backyard
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, some of the most brilliant minds in the world work to build the spacecraft that humans use to explore their universe. But where space scientists now roam, dinosaurs used to call home, according to dino-hunter Ray Stanford. Continue reading
When a Dragon mated the space station | Bad Astronomy
At 16:02 UTC, Friday, May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon officially became the first privately-owned commercial spacecraft to be captured by and berthed at the International Space Station. It is (if I’ve done the math correctly) the 114th spacecraft to dock with ISS, including the missions sent up to build the station Continue reading