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While a steep drop in space investments spurred by a grim economic outlook in the past year appeared to stabilize in the most recent quarter, startups, many of which went public through blank ...
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman told its employees that about 1,000 jobs could be cut in Southern California after lost a big satellite contract.
UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) was one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The company was formed in August 2012 when parent United Technologies Corporation merged their existing subsidiary Hamilton Sundstrand with the newly-acquired Goodrich Corporation .
Firms announced 55,597 layoffs last month, down 23.7% from the 72,821 announced in September, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said. Layoffs would have been even lower last month ...
World View was founded and incorporated in 2012 by a team of aerospace and life support veterans, including Biosphere 2 crew-members Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, Alan Stern, and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. Poynter and MacCallum later left World View and founded their own near-space-balloon-tourism company company Space Perspective in ...
On April 17, 2014, between 9:30 p.m and 10:22 p.m. PDT, after successfully completing its goal to collect lunar dust and study the Moon's atmosphere, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft successfully completed a planned de-orbit, bringing an end to the mission to study the structure and composition of the thin lunar ...
Northrop, based in Century City until 2011, operates a historic 110-acre Space Park in Redondo Beach dating back to the Cold War where it developed the intercontinental ballistic missile, and has ...
These lasers are capable of maintaining 100 Gbps over distances up to 2,600 km among two satellites moving at 25,000 km/h. Current in-space tests have demonstrated this speed up to a distance of 1,000km. [29] [30] Also, Kuiper satellites are likely to be compatible with and interconnect via optical links to Space Development Agency satellites. [31]