http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ Colorado Space Coalition News en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:32:16 GMT Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:32:16 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/rss/ Imulus Central 2.0 http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-awarded-task--order-support-us-military-prepositioned-equipment.html ITT Corporation has been awarded a contract to provide maintenance, supply and transportation services to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps on Camp Arifjan and other locations in Southwest Asia. The award is a task order under the Field Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) contract vehicle,... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-awarded-task--order-support-us-military-prepositioned-equipment.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-opens-second-internal-security-intelligence-center-denver.html Lockheed seeks to predict cybersecurity threats Lockheed Martin Corp, the No. 1 information technology provider to the U.S. government, is working hard to better predict and protect against increasingly sophisticated and stealthy cyber attacks. Lockheed, also the Pentagon's biggest contractor, is ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-opens-second-internal-security-intelligence-center-denver.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-launches-nasa-noaa-weather-satellite.html United Launch Alliance, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the third of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) missions for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite, designated GOES P was launch... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-launches-nasa-noaa-weather-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-video-makers-find-water-saving-lessons-in-outer-space.html Clean drinking water is precious, and nowhere is it more precious than in space — where astronauts rely on the limited amount of water that can be packed aboard for the duration of the trip. So astronauts use, recycle and re-use the water — and so can we here at home in the arid west. That’s the m... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-video-makers-find-water-saving-lessons-in-outer-space.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Northrop-picks-Public-Health-for-program.html Students at the Colorado School of Public Health would have access to “some of the highest-level information technology in the world,” according to Dean Richard Hamman, under a new Northrop Grumman Corp. University Global Alliance Program (UGAP) that was announced Tuesday. Northrop Grumman also cho... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Northrop-picks-Public-Health-for-program.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-orion-team-fabricates-world's-largest-heat-shield-structure.html Innovative high-temperature material system to provide better crew protection The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the Orion crew exploration vehicle achieved a major technology milestone by completing fabrication of the world’s largest heat shield structure. The shield is five meters (16.4 feet... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-orion-team-fabricates-world's-largest-heat-shield-structure.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/perlmutter-coffman-hail-gps-project-job-creator-state-nation.html U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) and Mike Coffman (CO-06),  highlighted the new U.S. Air Force GPS contract awarded to Aurora-based Raytheon Co. as an example of the kinds of private sector jobs we need to add in order to help rebuild our economy. The contract for the Next Generation CPS Contro... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/perlmutter-coffman-hail-gps-project-job-creator-state-nation.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/raytheon-wins-886-million-contract-develop-next-generation-gps-control-system.html Program to improve security, accuracy and reliability of GPS satellites The U.S. Air Force has selected Raytheon Company for an initial contract of $886 million to develop a new element of the Global Positioning System to improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites. The contract repres... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/raytheon-wins-886-million-contract-develop-next-generation-gps-control-system.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-ptac-office-opens-jefferson-county.html The Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) has opened a satellite office in Jefferson County. The Colorado PTAC HQ is located in Colorado Springs, but the new office provides Colorado PTAC staff with a Metro Denver location to meet with local clients. Jefferson Economic Developmen... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-ptac-office-opens-jefferson-county.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-built-wise-spies-comet-powerful-infrared-eye.html NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has discovered its first comet, one of many the mission is expected to find among millions of other objects during its ongoing survey of the whole sky in infrared light. Officially named "P/2010 B2 (WISE)," but known simply as WISE, the comet is... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-built-wise-spies-comet-powerful-infrared-eye.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-sends-cu-lockheed-martin-instruments-into-orbit.html Denver Business Journal - by Greg Avery  An Atlas V from Centennial-based United Launch Alliance blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida Thursday morning and released the Solar Dynamics Observatory into orbit 21,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. The launch was the first by ULA in 2010. N... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-sends-cu-lockheed-martin-instruments-into-orbit.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-awarded-task-order-to-service-us-army-vehicles-equipment.html The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded a task order under the Field and Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) contract vehicle to ITT Corporation for maintenance staff services for the U.S. Army Central Command (USARCENT) Special Troops Battalion (STB). Under this task order, ITT will p... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-awarded-task-order-to-service-us-army-vehicles-equipment.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-tests-nasa-landsat-operational-land-inager-stray-light-facility.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission. The first of its kind stray light test was conducted at Ball’s new Stray Light Test Facility (SLTF) in Boulder, Col... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-tests-nasa-landsat-operational-land-inager-stray-light-facility.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/primus-metals-small-parts-make-big-difference-aviation-industry.html By Randy Barber, 9news.com Most of the metal parts made by this week's Colorado Company to Watch are only a few inches long, but Primus Metals plays a big role in some of the country's biggest aviation projects, including the Boeing Dreamliner and A-380 Airbus. The Lakewood shop works tirelessly ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/primus-metals-small-parts-make-big-difference-aviation-industry.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-news-briefing-feb-4-highlight-role-space-weather-mission.html The University of Colorado at Boulder will hold a news briefing Thursday, Feb. 4, on the Feb. 9 launch of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory to help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, power grids, ground communications s... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-news-briefing-feb-4-highlight-role-space-weather-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/sierra-nevada-corp-wins-ccdev-award-18-million.html Sierra Nevada Corp. was the big winner in NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) competition, receiving $20 million of the $50 million in economic stimulus money meant to seed development of commercial crew transportation services. Sierra Nevada has major operations in Centennial and Louisville.... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/sierra-nevada-corp-wins-ccdev-award-18-million.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-sponsors-cu-boulder student-design-projects.html United Launch Alliance, a 3-year-old joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin based in Centennial, Colorado, has donated $30,000 to the University of Colorado at Boulder department of aerospace engineering sciences to support two senior capstone design projects. One team of aerospace engin... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-sponsors-cu-boulder student-design-projects.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-begins-integration-viirs-npoess-preparatory-satellite.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun integration of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). NPOESS, a joint program between NASA and the Integrated Program Office, i... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-begins-integration-viirs-npoess-preparatory-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-kick-start-falcon-aurora-colorado-students.html Every engineer, scientist, doctor, nurse, technician and mathematician can point to a person, place or event that prompted her or him to embark on a fascinating journey that led to an exciting, meaningful career.  Invariably, achieving that goal involved critical assistance of some kind-encoura... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-kick-start-falcon-aurora-colorado-students.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-space-vehicle-integration-laboratory-achieves-operational-capability.html Lockheed Martin's new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) has achieved initial operational capability and is supporting the company's satellite development program activity. The SVIL is a new Lockheed Martin enterprise-wide asset established to apply innovative processes, procedures, produ... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-space-vehicle-integration-laboratory-achieves-operational-capability.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-student-satellite-selcted-for-launch-by-nasa.html A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.  The three satellites, dubbed “CubeSats” be... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-student-satellite-selcted-for-launch-by-nasa.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ciber-wins-$26-million-NASA-it-contract.html CIBER Federal, a division of CIBER, Inc., announced today that it is part of the Dynetics team that won the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Marshal Space Flight Center Information Technology Services Contract. Under the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Information Technology S... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ciber-wins-$26-million-NASA-it-contract.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-faculty-and-students-win-2010-space-research-and-education-awards.html Five University of Colorado at Boulder faculty members and students were honored with prestigious research awards from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the organization’s 2010 meeting held this month in Orlando.  University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Daniel Baker ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-faculty-and-students-win-2010-space-research-and-education-awards.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/challenger-learning-center-colorado-awarded-major-nasa-education-grant.html The Challenger Learning Center of Colorado has been awarded one of nine NASA grants from 67 informal education applicants through the NASA Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums. Each of the next four years, the Challenger Reach 2 U program will  reach more than 2,500 fourth-g... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/challenger-learning-center-colorado-awarded-major-nasa-education-grant.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent-business-plan-competitiion-2010.html Showcase your idea. Fuel your venture. And float in zero gravity.... The 8th Continent Project is now accepting entries from around the globe for its 2010 Business Plan Competition for university students. $50,000 in prizes will be awarded including cash and in-kind services, and an unforgettable ... Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent-business-plan-competitiion-2010.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/general-dynamics-opens-colorado-data-center.html Denver Business Journal, January 8, 2010 A unit of giant defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. has opened a data center in Westminster to support its work for the Department of Homeland Security. The company's Information Technology division's new Colorado data center will support its work for... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/general-dynamics-opens-colorado-data-center.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-ships-james-webb-space-telescope-mirror.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped five James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) beryllium primary mirror segments as well as the engineering development unit (EDU) to Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., for cryogenic temperature testing. Following completion of the six-mirror te... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-ships-james-webb-space-telescope-mirror.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-chancellor-visits-white-house-pledge-increase-stem-teachers.html Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano of the University of Colorado at Boulder visited the White House today as one of four public research university leaders representing about 120 universities pledging to address the national shortage of science and mathematics teachers in a letter presented to President... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-chancellor-visits-white-house-pledge-increase-stem-teachers.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/us-air-force-awards-united-launch-alliance-wgs4-satellite-launch.html The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The anticipated launch period is December 2011 - ... Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/us-air-force-awards-united-launch-alliance-wgs4-satellite-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-students-build-tiny-spacecraft-observe-space-weather.html The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should give scientists a better understanding of solar flares and their interaction with Earth’s atmosphere. ... Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-students-build-tiny-spacecraft-observe-space-weather.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa-awards-cu-boulder-3.3-million-venus-mission.html NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict its ultimate fate in the solar system. The CU-Boulder-led mission would allow scientist... Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa-awards-cu-boulder-3.3-million-venus-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/european-space-observatory-cu-boulder-herschel.html An instrument package developed in part by the University of Colorado at Boulder for the $2.2 billion orbiting Herschel Space Observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time. The December image... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/european-space-observatory-cu-boulder-herschel.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/denver-grant-thornton-hq-for-aerospace-defense-clients.html Accounting and tax advisory firm Grant Thornton LLP has made its Denver branch headquarters of the company’s group focused on serving clients in aerospace and defense industries nationwide. The practice will be led by Charles H. “Chip” Schweiger, a partner at Grant Thornton’s Denver-based office. ... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/denver-grant-thornton-hq-for-aerospace-defense-clients.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview-2-imagery-available-january-2010.html WorldView-2 to reach full operational capability at the start of 2010 DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, announced today that its latest high-resolution s... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview-2-imagery-available-january-2010.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-prof-axelrad-receives-2009-kepler-award.html Prof. Penina Axelrad was selected to receive the 2009 Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation "for her continued contributions in the field of satellite navigation; dedication to the education of future generations of navigation engineers; and extensive service to professional societies includ... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-prof-axelrad-receives-2009-kepler-award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/jeffrey-forbes-selected-aiaa-losey-atmospheric-sciences-award.html Professor Jeff Forbes, Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair and Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be presented the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Robert M. Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award at the awar... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/jeffrey-forbes-selected-aiaa-losey-atmospheric-sciences-award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/sierra-nevada-corporation-adding-200-jobs-colorado.html Sierra Nevada Corp. is creating 200 jobs in Centennial, taking advantage of the Colorado's new job-creation tax credit, the office of Gov. Bill Ritter announced Monday. The Reno-based aerospace and defense company owns an aircraft repair and modification company at Centennial Airport. The subsidiar... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/sierra-nevada-corporation-adding-200-jobs-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/United-launch-alliance-successful-nasa-wise-launch.html Having already launched 16 successful missions this year, United Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft at 6:09 a.m. PST, today. Rocketing from Space Launch Complex-2, the launch was the eighth Delta II of 2009 ... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/United-launch-alliance-successful-nasa-wise-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wise-satellite-launches-from-vandenberg.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced today that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite built for NASA successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 6:09:33 a.m. on board a Boeing Delta II rocket. Ball Aerospace designed and built the WISE spacecraft, l... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wise-satellite-launches-from-vandenberg.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geooptics-cu-boulder-cicero-partnership.html GeoOptics LLC and the University of Colorado at Boulder announced the formation of a long-term partnership to collaborate on instrument and space system development for Earth remote sensing, integrated with education and research programs in Earth and space science and engineering. The partnership... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geooptics-cu-boulder-cicero-partnership.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/community-honors-space-foundation.html School District 11, Space Foundation win EDC award for Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy partnership The Space Foundation and Colorado Springs School District 11 (D-11) were honored Nov. 5 by the Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corporation with an Excellence in Local Industry Chairm... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/community-honors-space-foundation.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-to-launch-36th-mission-in-36-months.html A Delta IV is scheduled to launch the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-3 (WGS-3) satellite Dec. 2 at 7:21 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The United Launch Alliance will achieve a special milestone as the Delta IV WGS-3 mission represents the 36th mi... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-to-launch-36th-mission-in-36-months.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-selected-second-nasa-gmi-microwave-imager.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to build a second Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) in support of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The identical GMI 1 and GMI 2 Microwave Imagers are multi-channel, ... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-selected-second-nasa-gmi-microwave-imager.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-launch-4.html United Launch Alliance deployed its fourth commercial mission of 2009 as an Atlas V rocket successfully launched the Intelsat 14 (IS-14) commercial telecommunications satellite at 1:55 a.m. EST, on November 24, 2009. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex-41 here, the launch was provided on behalf o... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-launch-4.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-new-way-to measure-snow-gps.html A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers. The res... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-new-way-to measure-snow-gps.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/al-worden-honors-cu-boulder-student-scholarship-award.html Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden will present University of Colorado at Boulder senior Riley Pack with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a public presentation and ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 1 p.m. in Old Main Chapel on campus. The award ceremony will includ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/al-worden-honors-cu-boulder-student-scholarship-award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-wins-colorado-photonics-company-of-year.html The Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) announced that it has named DigitalGlobe as the 2009 Colorado Photonics Company of the Year. The award goes to a company or institution that has contributed the most to the Colorado photonics industry. This year’s winner, DigitalGlobe, is a world-im... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-wins-colorado-photonics-company-of-year.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-ready-launch-intelsat-14.html Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of preparation for Saturday’s launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite for Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance. The launch window opens at 12:48 a.m. EST and... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-ready-launch-intelsat-14.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-buttlerfly-payload-space-shuttle.html When NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the nation.  The butterfly payload was designed and built by BioServe Spa... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-buttlerfly-payload-space-shuttle.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-picked-build-advanced-imaging-systems-japanese-satellites.html Multi-million dollar contract is largest foreign space win Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan's largest satellite manufacturer, has selected ITT Space Systems to build the imaging systems for two geostationary satellites being built for the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The two geostation... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/itt-picked-build-advanced-imaging-systems-japanese-satellites.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-wins-grant-national-hypersonic-science-center.html The University of Colorado at Boulder will help to usher in a new era of high-temperature materials for hypersonic flight as part of a multi-institutional center launched this fall. CU-Boulder will receive $1 million over the next five years under a grant from Teledyne Scientific & Imaging of Thous... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-wins-grant-national-hypersonic-science-center.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/gigitalglobe-announces-agreement-with-microsoft.html New Clear30 program exclusively available through Bing Maps and DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, today announced it has signed an agreemen... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/gigitalglobe-announces-agreement-with-microsoft.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lt.gov.obrien-ares-aunch-good-omen-colorado.html Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien, co-chair of the Colorado Space Coalition, says today’s successful launch of NASA’S new generation of rockets is also good news for Colorado. “The Ares 1-X rocket launch ushers in a new era of space exploration, the next step after the space shuttle. Today’s success is a go... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lt.gov.obrien-ares-aunch-good-omen-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-selected-thales-iridium-NEXT.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Thales Alenia Space have agreed to work jointly on the next-generation satellite constellation Iridium NEXT program. Ball Aerospace’s possible roles and responsibilities would be assembly, integration and test (AI&T) for the Iridium satellites. Under the cur... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-selected-thales-iridium-NEXT.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/espace-next-round-space-entrepreneurs.html eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator and workforce development organization for aerospace companies, announced that it is seeking a second round of aerospace entrepreneurs to participate in the eSpace incubator. The move reflects the industry’s demand for eS... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/espace-next-round-space-entrepreneurs.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/liller-asteroids-space-science-institute.html Students help develop asteroids exhibition Asteroids and comets are popular subjects for movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, but they are also playing their own starring roles in NASA research. In 2005, NASA’s Deep Impact’s probe collided with Tempel 1, exploring beneath the comet’s surface. In... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/liller-asteroids-space-science-institute.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-worldview-2-satellite-images.html The first images taken by the WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite designed and built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for DigitalGlobe were released on October 20 - just 11 days after the satellite’s successful launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. DigitalGlobe released images of Lo... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-worldview-2-satellite-images.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-deloitte-fast-500.html Company recognized in annual listing of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, today announced that ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-deloitte-fast-500.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-and-nist-awarded-500k-grant.html The University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded a $495,000 grant to look for Earth-like planets around other stars using technology based on 2005 Nobel Prize-winning research conducted at JILA, a joint institute of the two Boulder instit... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-and-nist-awarded-500k-grant.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-unveils-first-worldview-2-images.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, released the first images from WorldView-2, the company’s most recent high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite. Initial... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-unveils-first-worldview-2-images.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-launches-dmsp-f18.html Adding to the Atlas rocket program’s accomplished five decade legacy, a Meteorological Satellite Program F18 (DMSP F18) mission from Space Launch Complex-3 here at 9:12 a.m. PDT, today. The DMSP F18 spacecraft was built for the Air Force by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif. ... Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-launches-dmsp-f18.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-stpsat.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Launch of the vehicle is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-stpsat.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-eric-bachtell.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Eric Bachtell, chief systems engineer for the Kepler program, has been honored by Popular Mechanics with a 2009 Breakthrough Award for his work on NASA’s planet-finding mission. The 2009 Popular Mechanics awards recognized life-changing innovations in a ceremon... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-eric-bachtell.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-sounding-rocket-nasa.html NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $2.4 million to design, build and fly four rocket payloads to probe nearby “interstellar weather” using new technologies being developed for use on future orbiting observatories. The payloads -- ultraviolet telescopes known as spectrographs... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-sounding-rocket-nasa.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/stem-apalooza.html The excitement of scientific discovery is alive and well at University of Colorado Denver Kindergartener, policymaker, teacher or business executive—no matter what age or occupation—there will be something for everyone at the 2009 University of Colorado Denver STEMapalooza. More than 7,500 particip... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/stem-apalooza.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/absl-powers-nasa-moon-impact.html ABSL Space Products proudly leaves its mark on the moon NASA’s LCROSS Satellite, powered by an ABSL Space Products Lithium battery system, successfully executed a controlled lunar impact at 1136 GMT on October 9th, 2009 in search of vital scientific answers. The impact force required to obtain the... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/absl-powers-nasa-moon-impact.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/northrop-lcross-moon-impact.html Astronomers and space enthusiasts worldwide cheered as the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) successfully impacted the moon's Cabeus crater this morning at 4:31 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. LCROSS was built and integrated by Northrop Grumman Corporation under contract to NASA Am... Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/northrop-lcross-moon-impact.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview-2.html DigitalGlobe, headquartered in Longmont, (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial customers, announced on October 8, 2009 the successful launch and deployment of WorldV... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview-2.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/national-space-symposium.html Kehler, Carlson, Ballhaus, NRO leaders scheduled to speak Planning is well underway for the 26th National Space Symposium, to be held April 12-15, 2010, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  The Space Foundation already has commitments from top-level speakers, including: ... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/national-space-symposium.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-messenger.html NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final flyby of Mercury on Sept. 29 -- a clever gravity-assist maneuver that will steer it into orbit around the rocky planet beginning in March 2011. The spacecraft wi... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-messenger.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-stss-mission.html A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of the NASA Launch Services Program, successfully launched the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration mission for the United States Missile Defense Agency at 8:20 a.m. EDT, today. STSS Demo is an element of the STSS Program, a ... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-stss-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/csu-professor-honored.html The Society of Automobile Engineers International has honored Azer Yalin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University, with the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award for young educators who are successfully preparing engineers to meet societal challenges. Yalin received t... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/csu-professor-honored.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/astronaut-jim-voss-cuboulder.html University of Colorado alumnus-astronaut Jim Voss has become the second astronaut to join CU-Boulder’s aerospace engineering sciences department following his NASA career, which for Voss included five spaceflights, 202 days in space and four spacewalks. Voss is one of three astronauts affiliated a... Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/astronaut-jim-voss-cuboulder.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/norman-augustine-CSU.html Norman Augustine, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corp., will talk about education’s role in expanding U.S. competitiveness as part of a visit to Colorado State University on Monday, Sept. 28. Augustine has been invited to speak as part of the Information Science & T... Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/norman-augustine-CSU.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/denver-schools-stem-careers.html Three Denver-area colleges and a school district said Monday they will collaborate on a new program to encourage students to enter into careers in science, technology, engineering and math -- the so-called "STEM" subjects. The participants are Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado School o... Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/denver-schools-stem-careers.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-earth-observation-operator.html Company recognized at the 6th Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Management in Paris DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, government, and commercial clients, today announced that it has been n... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-earth-observation-operator.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/high-altitude-conference-colorado.html Inverness Hotel & Conference Center, Englewood, CO, October 19th-21st The Rocky Mountain Technology Alliance is hosting a conference that will focus on the strategic importance of High Altitude and Near Space operations, include a Near Space Airship/Aircraft and Platform Technology review, and expl... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/high-altitude-conference-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/metro-denver-careers-resource.html New web site provides career information for key high-tech industries The Metro Denver WIRED Initiative (WIRED) has created MetroDenverCareers.com, a place for students, job seekers, educators and business professionals to learn about and access career resources for some of the region's fastest gro... Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/metro-denver-careers-resource.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-celebrates-satellite-first-year.html GeoEye, Inc.,a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, marked the one-year launch anniversary of GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif... Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-celebrates-satellite-first-year.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aurora-get-new-federal-facility.html A 350,000-square-foot office will be built for the Aerospace Data Facility Colorado to handle intelligence work. By Margaret Jackson, The Denver PostA Virginia company is developing a 350,000-square-foot office building on 64 acres in Aurora for the federal government. The Peterson Cos. is expecte... Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aurora-get-new-federal-facility.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-energy-aerospace-lead-economic-boost.html Although Colorado has “experienced rising unemployment and is feeling the pinch of the national recession across all industries, we have felt it less than in other parts of the country and started to feel it later,” says Jeff Holwell, director of business development for the Colorado Office of Econo... Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-energy-aerospace-lead-economic-boost.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-advanced-collection-abilities-army-exercise.html Flying laboratory collected, correlated, distributed real-time intelligence The power of one multi-intelligence aircraft collecting, correlating then distributing diverse types of intelligence to those who needed it was demonstrated by Lockheed Martin during the U.S. Army's C4ISR On-The-Move exerci... Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-advanced-collection-abilities-army-exercise.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-unmaned-aircraft-antarctic-sea-ice.html A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas and the blasting winds that help form them. Using unmanned planes roughly 9 feet acros... Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-unmaned-aircraft-antarctic-sea-ice.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-signs-nextview-sla-extension.html Contract extended through first quarter 2010 is valued at $50 Million GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information and services, announced that it has signed a contract to extend its Service Level Agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) t... Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-signs-nextview-sla-extension.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-hubble-oberservations.html The Hubble Space Telescope’s newest instruments built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. are demonstrating early promise for spectacular long-term results. NASA has released early observations from Hubble following installation of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (C... Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-hubble-oberservations.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/unite-launch-alliance-pan-satellite.html A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, successfully launched the PAN satellite at 5:35 p.m. EDT, today from Space Launch Complex-41 as a commercial launch service. This launch marks the 10th overall mission for ULA in 2009 and the third Atlas... Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/unite-launch-alliance-pan-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/therm-tech-colorado-invitation.html The Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC) is pleased to announce an open house for Therm-Tech of Colorado, LLC.  The Wisconsin based heat treat manufacturing company, which is family owned and operated, recently expanded into the Rocky Mountain Region.  They are curren... Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/therm-tech-colorado-invitation.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-professor-nasa-briefing-hubble.html University of Colorado at Boulder Professor James Green will participate in a NASA news briefing in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. MDT to unveil the first images from the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Reporters interested in participating in the NASA press conference should e-m... Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-professor-nasa-briefing-hubble.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/images-mars.html Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbite... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/images-mars.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-cdr.html With a unanimous vote by NASA’s Constellation and Orion Project managers, the Lockheed Martin-led industry team building the Orion crew exploration vehicle successfully passed a significant milestone in the new spacecraft’s development phase – the preliminary design review (PDR). Successful complet... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-cdr.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin.html F-16 provides innovative way to increase tactical ISR persistence Existing on-board sensor capability of tactical fighter aircraft can be leveraged to provide near real-time intelligence and enhanced situational awareness, as demonstrated by Lockheed Martin during the recent U.S. Air Force Empire C... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview.html Remote-sensing satellite expected to launch October 6 DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for commercial, defense, and intelligence clients, today announced that the WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite has arrived at Vandenberg... Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-jcsat-launched.html The JCSAT-12 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation of Japan, was successfully launched August 21st from Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 6:09 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle provided by Arian... Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-jcsat-launched.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/jack-swigert-aerospace-academy.html New school is partnership between Colorado Springs School District 11, Space Foundation A new aerospace-themed middle school created through a partnership between the Space Foundation and Colorado Springs (Colo.) School District 11 (D-11) opened Aug. 18 with more than 500 students, 42 teachers, an... Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/jack-swigert-aerospace-academy.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cuboulder-aerospace-engineering.html Three CU-Boulder programs ranked in top 20 by U.S. News and World Report The University of Colorado at Boulder remains ranked 34th among the nation's top public universities, with three specialty programs in engineering and business ranked in the top 20 for both public and private universities, acc... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cuboulder-aerospace-engineering.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-top-ten-companies-colorado.html Merrick & Company, a Colorado-based company specializing in engineering, architecture, design-build, surveying, and geospatial solutions, has been ranked ninth on the list of the 2009 “Best Companies to Work for in Colorado” in the large company category by ColoradoBiz Magazine. Leading to this rec... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-top-ten-companies-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-delta-II-successful-gps-launch.html The 48th successful and final Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite launch occurred today, ending one of the most successful space launch programs in American history. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched GPS IIR-21(M) into orbit from Space Launch Complex-17A at 6:35 a.... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-delta-II-successful-gps-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wise-spacecraft.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite. The pre-shipment review was completed on August 4 and followed assembly and performance testing. Ball Aerospace engineers have packed ... Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wise-spacecraft.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-incubator-gaining-momentum.html By Ryan Dionne, Boulder County Business ReportAugust 7, 2009 For a nonprofit incubator that formed in January, eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship has already taken off at a missilelike pace after it cleared its first hurdle in securing $2 million in government funding, added new mentors ... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-incubator-gaining-momentum.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/therm-tech-expands-loveland-colorado.html Northern Colorado Business ReportAugust 7, 2009 Heat-treating specialist Therm-Tech of Waukesha, Wis., has set its sights on the growing aerospace industry and has opened Therm-Tech of Colorado in Loveland as its regional manufacturing base. Therm-Tech signed a lease in April for 26,000 square fee... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/therm-tech-expands-loveland-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-built-telescope-kepler.html NASA's Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a giant gas planet outside the solar system, in what scientists say is a demonstration of the capabilities of the Colorado-built telescope with just 10 days of test data. Results will be published in the journal Science. Kepler is d... Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-built-telescope-kepler.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-completes-environmental-testing-worldview2-satellite.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed environmental testing for the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe and has begun post-environmental performance testing. WorldView-2 is the third satellite Ball Aerospace has built for DigitalGlobe’s constellation ... Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-completes-environmental-testing-worldview2-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-collects-lidar-data-rainwater-basin-project.html Merrick & Company, working for Optimal Geomatics under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is collecting light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data over a 17,6770-square-mile area in order to create a digital elevation model. The digital elevation model will be used in natural resources, ... Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-collects-lidar-data-rainwater-basin-project.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/surrey-satellite-technology-launches-two-satellites.html With the successful launch of the UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites on July 29th, SSTL has expanded the capability of the world’s only spaced-based disaster monitoring system, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). The satellites were launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ... Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/surrey-satellite-technology-launches-two-satellites.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado.firm.awarded.nasa.contract.html Advantage Electronic Product Development designing instrument for astronaut safety on International Space Station Broomfield electronics engineering design firm, Advantage Electronic Product Development, has recently begun the first-phase design of an instrument that will be used initially to help ... Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado.firm.awarded.nasa.contract.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/gov.ritter.congratulates.ball.aerospace.nasa.astronauts.hubble.mission.html Gov. Bill Ritter today congratulated the astronauts and crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and employees from Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. for their recent mission to repair and extend the life of the Hubble telescope. During a visit with the astronauts and employees at Ball's Boulder camp... Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/gov.ritter.congratulates.ball.aerospace.nasa.astronauts.hubble.mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-ceo-michael-gass-2009-peter-teets-award.html Mr. Michael C. Gass, president and chief executive officer of United Launch Alliance, is the honored recipient of this year's Peter B. Teets Award from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) for championing the cause of space transportation. "Mr. Gass has made lasting and significant co... Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ula-ceo-michael-gass-2009-peter-teets-award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/centaurus grad-chosen-nasa-astronaut.html When asked what they want to be when they grow up, most kids change their answer week to week. But one Louisville native always knew. “It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little boy, and to get the chance to live that dream is amazing,” said Jack D. Fischer, 35. Fischer, a major and test pilo... Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/centaurus grad-chosen-nasa-astronaut.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa--cu-boulder-expedition-chases-arctic-sea-ice-questions.html A small NASA aircraft completed its first successful science flight July 18 in partnership with the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of an expedition to study the receding Arctic sea ice and improve understanding of its life cycle and the long-term stability of the Arctic ice cover. The mis... Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa--cu-boulder-expedition-chases-arctic-sea-ice-questions.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-launches-crisis-event-service.html Web service will utilize DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation to provide pre- and post-event imagery for emergency planning, risk assessment and damage recovery DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services, announced its Crisis Event Se... Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-launches-crisis-event-service.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-awarded-second-contract-stp-siv-program.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $13.4 million U.S. Air Force contract to procure long-lead hardware for a second Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) spacecraft. The first STP-SIV spacecraft launch is expected in the first quarter of 2010. The contract fol... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-awarded-second-contract-stp-siv-program.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/espace-incubates-first-round-entrepreneurs.html Companies leverage eSpace resources to maximize probability of business success eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a non-profit business incubator for aerospace companies, today announced the first three companies participating in the eSpace incubator. Selected from an applicant pool of... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/espace-incubates-first-round-entrepreneurs.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-state-university-students-examine-future-for-lockheed-martin-space-systems.html Colorado State University's College of Business has partnered with a Denver alumnus to build a unique, strategy-based course with one of Colorado's largest employers, Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Bill Shuster, instructor in the Management department of the College of Business, and CSU alumnus Rob... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-state-university-students-examine-future-for-lockheed-martin-space-systems.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-landss-nasa-space-sensor-contract.html A University of Colorado at Boulder lab won $42 million from NASA to develop a satellite sensor that will measure the sun’s radiation — a project sped up by federal stimulus spending. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU will build the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, o... Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-boulder-landss-nasa-space-sensor-contract.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/rocket-science-lots-of-opportunity-interview-michael-gass-ula.html Ann Schrader, The Denver Post, interviews Michael Gass, CEO of United Launch Alliance On June 18, ULA's Atlas V rocket launched two lunar missions, and on June 27, a NASA/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration GOES satellite was launched on a Delta IV. The launches were ULA's No. 27 and No... Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/rocket-science-lots-of-opportunity-interview-michael-gass-ula.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/new-european-space-telescope-with-cu-boulder-connection-makes-first-observations--targets-nearby-galaxies.html A scientific instrument package developed in part by the University of Colorado at Boulder for the $2.2 billion orbiting Herschel Space Observatory that was launched in May by the European Space Agency has made its first successful observations, targeting two star-forming galaxies near the Milky Way... Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/new-european-space-telescope-with-cu-boulder-connection-makes-first-observations--targets-nearby-galaxies.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview-launch-date-announced.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services, announced that its WorldView-2 high-resolution 8-band multi-spectral satellite is scheduled to launch on October 6th, 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The planned launch of W... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-worldview-launch-date-announced.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-NASA-test-new-space-internet-protocols.html The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space and across the solar system. Called Disruption Tolerant Networking, or DTN, the new technolo... Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-NASA-test-new-space-internet-protocols.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-extends-SLA-National-Geospatial-intelligence-agency.html Parties sign contract extension for world imagery DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, announced that it has signed a contract to extend DigitalGlobe’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) with NGA for $12.5 million per month.  The SLA extension ... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/digitalglobe-extends-SLA-National-Geospatial-intelligence-agency.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-teaches-teachers-teach-space.html Space Discovery Institute activities include star-gazing, creating spacesuits, building rockets The Space Foundation's summer is filled with rockets, cave-crawls, and swimming pool micrgravity simulations - all part of the various curricula for Space Discovery Institutes, which teach teachers h... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-teaches-teachers-teach-space.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-creates-space-focused-middle-school-colorado.html New Swigert Aerospace Academy honors former astronaut The Space Foundation is teaming with Colorado School District 11 (D-11) in its hometown of Colorado Springs to revitalize a failing middle-school by transforming it into an aerospace academy. The new school, which is named Jack Swigert Aeros... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-creates-space-focused-middle-school-colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-successfully-launches-nasa-noaa-weather-satellite.html United Launch Alliance, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the second of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite, designated GOES-O, was launched abo... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/united-launch-alliance-successfully-launches-nasa-noaa-weather-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-successfully-launches-nasa-moon-missions.html Nearly 40 years after Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, United Launch Alliance successfully launched NASA's latest two lunar missions aboard an Atlas V rocket. The Atlas V successfully placed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mi... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-successfully-launches-nasa-moon-missions.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-researchers-find-evidence-ancient-lakes-mars.html A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet. Estimated to be more than 3 billion years old, the lake... Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-researchers-find-evidence-ancient-lakes-mars.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/quikSCAT-provides-ten-years-data-earth-climate.html This month marks a decade of success for NASA’s QuikSCAT mission, one that continues to provide a wealth of information about Earth’s climate since its launch June 19, 1999. Although QuikSCAT’s mission life was designed for two years, the spacecraft continues to operate into its tenth year and its g... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/quikSCAT-provides-ten-years-data-earth-climate.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-companies-wait-stimulus-money.html Denver Business Journal - by Greg Avery After nearly four months, local aerospace companies still are waiting to learn what stimulus funding may be available to them — with the knowledge that more than $475 million has been tentatively earmarked for their existing projects. In February, Congress ... Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-companies-wait-stimulus-money.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/green-energy-and-future-of-space-propulsion-take-center-stage-at-denver-conferences.html Alternative fuels, electric propulsion systems, fuel cells, and futuristic aerospace propulsion systems will take center stage in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from August 2 to 5 at the 7th International Energy Conversion and Engineering Conference (IECEC) and the 45th Joint Propulsion Co... Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/green-energy-and-future-of-space-propulsion-take-center-stage-at-denver-conferences.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/usaf-awards-lockheed-contract-sbirs-spacecraft.html The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.5-billion contract for the third highly elliptical orbit (HEO-3) payload, the third geosynchronous orbit (GEO-3) satellite and associated ground modifications for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) constellation. A contract to include a fourth... Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/usaf-awards-lockheed-contract-sbirs-spacecraft.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wfc-cos-hubble.html Astronauts for NASA's STS-125 servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed two science instruments built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. during their 13-day mission and completed critical repairs to two previously installed Ball science instruments. Space Shuttle Atlantis a... Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-wfc-cos-hubble.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/astronaut-john-grunsfeld-cu-boulder-faculty.html Astronaut John Grunsfeld, nearing the end of a successful NASA mission on board the space shuttle Atlantis to repair and refurbish the aging Hubble Space Telescope, has been named an adjoint professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Grunsfeld, who participated in three spacewalks during t... Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/astronaut-john-grunsfeld-cu-boulder-faculty.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-instruments-launch-aboard-shuttle-atlantis.html The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Monday on a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope where astronauts are scheduled to install two instruments built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and restore two previously installed Ball instruments to peak performance. The successful launch of NASA’s ST... Tue, 12 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/colorado-instruments-launch-aboard-shuttle-atlantis.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Aerospace-COS-WFC3-Hubble-Telescope.html The historic mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope this month will include installation of two instruments built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Astronauts flying aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis expect to leave the Hubble at the apex of its scientific capabilities following their 11-... Wed, 06 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Aerospace-COS-WFC3-Hubble-Telescope.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/national-security-space-industrial-base-challenged-three-fronts.html A shrinking aerospace workforce, outdated export control rules and a cumbersome defense acquisition system all threaten the health of the U.S. national security space industrial base, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said Thursday.  “The role of space in our security and economy is critical,... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/national-security-space-industrial-base-challenged-three-fronts.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/boulder-scientists-detect-magnesium-flyby-mercury.html NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium - an element created inside exploding stars and which is found in many medicine cabinets on Earth - clumped in the tenuous atmosp... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/boulder-scientists-detect-magnesium-flyby-mercury.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/investment-needed-combat-debris-threats-to-us-space-assets.html Space debris is a current and growing threat to U.S. exploration activities, and leaders must make situational awareness a top national priority, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said in congressional testimony Tuesday.  In written testimony submitted to the House Space and Aeronautics Subco... Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/investment-needed-combat-debris-threats-to-us-space-assets.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/bye-aerospace-announces-mou-ascent-solar-technologies.html Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state-of-the-art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to incorporate thin film photovoltaic (PV) technology into aircraft platforms under development at Bye Aerospace. George Bye, CEO of By... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/bye-aerospace-announces-mou-ascent-solar-technologies.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-hosts-young-minds-at-work-day.html Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company today opened its doors to students, aged six to 18 years, for the company’s annual Young Minds at Work Day. Nearly 4,000 students are participating today at company facilities across the country in Alabama, California, Colorado, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Loc... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-hosts-young-minds-at-work-day.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-harris-corporation-sign-agreement-develop-video-intelligence-tools.html Companies to collaborate on advanced technologies for video management and analysis Lockheed Martin and Harris Corporation have signed a collaboration agreement to develop next-generation technologies for managing and analyzing full-motion video intelligence. The two companies will use their collec... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-martin-harris-corporation-sign-agreement-develop-video-intelligence-tools.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/raytheon-awarded-23.5-million-risk-reduction-contract-gps-ground-control-segment.html On-time and low-risk delivery is vital to program's success Raytheon Company received a contract extension to perform additional risk-reduction activities for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System Operational Ground Control Segment, or GPS OCX. Raytheon will identify and mi... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/raytheon-awarded-23.5-million-risk-reduction-contract-gps-ground-control-segment.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa-s-kepler-captures-first-views-of-planet-hunting-territory-.html NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. One image shows millions of sta... Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/nasa-s-kepler-captures-first-views-of-planet-hunting-territory-.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-releases-space-report-2009.html According to The Space Report 2009: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity, released by the Space Foundation on the first day of the 25th National Space Symposium, overall worldwide space revenues grew nearly 2.5 percent in 2008, rising to $257 billion. This, despite a tough world economy.... Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-foundation-releases-space-report-2009.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/25th-national-space-symposium-breaks-records.html The Space Foundation's 25th National Space Symposium, held last week, has broken records in attendance, international involvement, exhibitor participation, and educational involvement, underscoring the fact that the space industry is maintaining a relatively strong position, even in a difficult econ... Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/25th-national-space-symposium-breaks-records.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lamborn-seeks-support-air-force-cyber-unit.html Colorado Springs hasn't wrapped up the 24th Air Force yet, but local leaders met Tuesday to be ready if the city gets the nod for the 400-member cyber warfare unit. A decision on where the Air Force will house the 24th Air Force is due in the next week, with Colorado Springs as a front-runner. U.S.... Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lamborn-seeks-support-air-force-cyber-unit.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-completes-integration-STP-SIV.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed space vehicle integration for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program. Space vehicle integration will be followed by a series of rigorous environmental and operational tests contin... Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-aerospace-completes-integration-STP-SIV.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-corporation-receives-sustainability-reporting-award.html Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) have selected Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) as a co-winner for the Best First Time Reporter Award for sustainability reporting in the 2009 Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Awards. Ball is the first packaging and first aerospa... Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-corporation-receives-sustainability-reporting-award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-Hurricane-Forecast-Team-Predicts-Average-2009Season.html The Colorado State University forecast team predicts an average 2009 Atlantic basin hurricane season based on the potential for a weak El Nino event and an observed cooling of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures. The team lowered its forecast from December and now anticipates 12 named storms... Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-Hurricane-Forecast-Team-Predicts-Average-2009Season.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Colorado-Springs-Airport-Hosts-Space-Exhibit.html Beginning this week, the Colorado Springs Airport will recognize the 25th anniversary of the National Space Symposium by hosting an exhibit in the lobby of its commercial passenger terminal.  The exhibit, entitled COLORADO SPRINGS: A VESTED INTEREST IN SPACE, features graphic displays and ... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Colorado-Springs-Airport-Hosts-Space-Exhibit.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-Howard-Hughes-awards.html Two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are among 50 scientists who will receive coveted Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist awards in 2009. Joaquin Espinosa, an assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Rob Knight, an assistant professor... Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-Howard-Hughes-awards.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Singapore-ground-station.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of world imagery solutions, today announced that it has signed a direct access agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to receive high-resolution imagery from its WorldView-1 satellite... Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Singapore-ground-station.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-industry-strong.html The U.S. economy is in recession, but the satellite industry's prospects are still flying high -- at least for now, military officials and industry executives said March 31. A report released by the Space Foundation at its annual symposium here showed that the space industry boosted revenues by $6 ... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-industry-strong.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/international-competition-needs-more-NASA-funding.html The way to protect U.S. leadership in space against growing international competition is stable and sufficient investment, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey told a House appropriations subcommittee April 2. "Today more than 60 countries have active space programs, some of which, as we know, are ... Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/international-competition-needs-more-NASA-funding.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AGI-IS.html Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), the producer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software for analysis of space, defense and intelligence assets, and Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISYS) a satellite communications systems provider for government and commercial customers, today announced their new s... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AGI-IS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Martin-Space-Systems-SVIL.html Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has established a new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) to enable a more efficient and reliable process for space vehicle component and flight software integration. As a Lockheed Martin Space Systems-wide asset, the laboratory will have a... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Martin-Space-Systems-SVIL.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Harris-GPS.html Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has successfully completed demonstrations of its advanced communications and information assurance solutions for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Operational Control Segment (OCX) program. The announcement was made during the 25th National Space Symposium being held... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Harris-GPS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AGI-Space-Dynamics.html Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), the producer of commercial off-the-shelf software for analysis of space, defense and intelligence assets, and Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), a nonprofit research corporation focused on defense and science objectives, announced their new business partnership today. ... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AGI-Space-Dynamics.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Sierra-Nevada-business-units.html The newly formed Space Systems business area of Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) will debut at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs March 30. The Space Systems business area was established in 2009 through the merger of SNC subsidiary, MicroSat Systems, and SpaceDev, which was acquired by... Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Sierra-Nevada-business-units.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/United-Launch-Alliance-awarded-four-NASA-missions.html NASA has awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) four science and communications missions set to launch in the first half of the next decade. All four missions will fly aboard ULA’s Atlas V rocket and are scheduled to launch between 2011-2014. The four launches are the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP... Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/United-Launch-Alliance-awarded-four-NASA-missions.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-American-Chemcial-Award.html University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Professor Margaret Tolbert has been awarded the American Chemical Society's Creative Advances in Environmental Sciences and Technology Award for her groundbreaking research in atmospheric chemistry. Tolbert, also a fellow at the Coope... Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-American-Chemcial-Award.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-NSF-CAREER-Awards.html University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry department chair David Walba said having a single assistant professor win a National Science Foundation CAREER Award would be phenomenal. So it's not surprising that he is ecstatic over the news that three of the department's junior facul... Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-NSF-CAREER-Awards.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-podcast.html Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien noted in her March podcast that the aerospace industry has helped Colorado’s economy in difficult times. Colorado has the second- largest aerospace industry in the nation, with 26,000 private sector jobs and 171,000 aerospace related jobs. “Colorado has a rich mixture of re... Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-podcast.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-WorldView-2-integration.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that the WorldView-2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corporation’s Space Systems Division, has been integrated by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. into the WorldView-2 spacecraft and system-lev... Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-WorldView-2-integration.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Kepler-launch.html The Ball Aerospace-built Kepler spacecraft carrying the largest camera ever sent by NASA beyond Earth’s orbit, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 10:48 pm EST, on Friday, March 6, 2009. Ball Aerospace designed and built Kepler’s photometer and spacecraft, ... Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Kepler-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Colorado-FIRST-robotics-competition.html MindSports Colorado and the Colorado Regional Planning Committee announced the 2009 Colorado Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology) Robotics Competition will be held March 27-28 this year. FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind desig... Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Colorado-FIRST-robotics-competition.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-budget-solid.html The proposed budget for fiscal 2010 President Obama submitted to Congress Thursday provides a sound foundation for national defense, space exploration and modernizing the U.S. air transportation system, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said.  The $3.55 trillion budget includes responsible to... Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-budget-solid.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Boeing-add-jobs-Colorado.html As other technology employers have been cutting jobs, Boeing Co. has been quietly adding positions in Colorado Springs to work on a new satellite system designed to detect and track objects orbiting the Earth, among other programs. The aviation giant has added about 100 workers to its Springs payr... Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Boeing-add-jobs-Colorado.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-OCO-mission-failure.html The Orbiting Carbon Observatory, the latest NASA Earth science mission involving a team of Colorado State University scientists, failed to reach orbit after its 2:55 a.m. MST liftoff from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The mission, led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was expected to m... Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-OCO-mission-failure.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-space-sciences-engineering-initiative.html University of Colorado at Boulder administrators have launched a comprehensive space science and engineering initiative that will bring together faculty and students across campus now participating in a broad swath of space-related research. Known as the AeroSpace Systems Science and Engineerin... Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-space-sciences-engineering-initiative.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-NASA-CO2-science-mission.html A team of Colorado State University atmospheric scientists is at the center of NASA's next Earth orbiting science mission, which will map variations of carbon dioxide across the globe. On Tuesday, February 24, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is scheduled to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, ... Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-NASA-CO2-science-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-students-at-controls.html University of Colorado at Boulder students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 5 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like planets in other solar systems. A team of 20 students and 16 professionals from CU-Bou... Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-students-at-controls.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Fiske-Planetarium.html The University of Colorado at Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with the unveiling of two new mural-sized images taken by NASA telescopes and observatories and a talk by astronomer Luisa Rebull on Feb. 27. The new mural-sized images of the galaxy M... Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Fiske-Planetarium.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS25-featured-speakers.html A powerful and diverse slate of senior space industry leaders have confirmed their participation as featured speakers for the 25th National Space Symposium, scheduled March 30 - April 2, 2009, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The National Space Symposium brings together all sectors ... Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS25-featured-speakers.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NOAA-GOES-R-final-proposal.html Raytheon Company has submitted its final proposal for the development of the ground segment for NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series, known as GOES-R. "We are very pleased to have reached this point in t... Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NOAA-GOES-R-final-proposal.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Kepler-launch-prep.html NASA's Kepler spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Wed., Jan 7. Kepler was shipped from Ball’s Fisher Complex spacecraft production facility in Boulder, Colorado to the Cape Canaveral Air Force station a few days earlier. The planet-finding mis... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Kepler-launch-prep.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-Delta-II-NOAA-Prime.html A United Launch Alliance Delta II successfully launched the NASA NOAA-N Prime spacecraft at 2:22 a.m. PST, Feb. 10. Rocketing from Space Launch Complex-2, the launch took place during the 20th year anniversary month of the first Delta II launch. The program’s first launch took place Feb. 14, 1989, f... Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-Delta-II-NOAA-Prime.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-1-commercial-ops.html GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information, announced today the start of commercial operations for its new GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite. The Company is also submitting imagery from the satellite to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for t... Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-1-commercial-ops.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-computer-earth-modeling.html A new University of Colorado at Boulder-based supercomputer will vastly extend the ability of scientists across the globe in modeling and predicting many important aspects of Earth's surface processes, from glacial melting and flooding to coastal erosion and tropical ocean storms. The $750,000 clus... Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-computer-earth-modeling.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-expansion.html DigitalGlobe is the world’s leading provider of high resolution commercial imagery and the only company operating a constellation of sub-meter commercial imaging satellites. DigitalGlobe’s headquarters is located in Longmont, Colorado. The company recently signed a lease at the former Adaptec buildi... Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-expansion.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Steve-Swanson-CU-mission.html Making his second flight as an astronaut, University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus Steve Swanson will be the lead spacewalker aboard the International Space Station after NASA's space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on Feb 12. The 14-day Discovery mission, which will include ... Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Steve-Swanson-CU-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-SpaceDev-eSpace.html The University of Colorado at Boulder, a national leader in aerospace engineering, and SpaceDev Inc., a leading entrepreneurial space company located in Louisville, Colo., have partnered to create eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. eSpace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to cre... Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-SpaceDev-eSpace.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Inaugural-captured-GeoEye-1.html GeoEye-1 collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration. The image, taken through high, whispy white clouds over Washin... Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Inaugural-captured-GeoEye-1.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-nanosatellite-win.html University of Colorado at Boulder students won first place this week in a national competition for nanosatellite design, earning a rare opportunity to launch their winning satellite within the next two years. CU-Boulder was one of 11 schools participating in the University Nanosatellite Program's F... Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-nanosatellite-win.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Sierra-Nevada-Corp-SpaceDev.html Sierra Nevada Corporation President, Eren Ozmen, announced Jan 15 that SNC has completed the acquisition of SpaceDev Inc. SpaceDev has 170+ employees in its three locations: Poway, California; Louisville, Colorado; and Durham, North Carolina, adding a notable talent base to SNC's capabilities. "Th... Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Sierra-Nevada-Corp-SpaceDev.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-bolsters-economy.html The aerospace and defense industry is a source of economic strength that should be tapped in the stimulus bill to help lead our nation out of very challenging times, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said Jan 15. Speaking during a National Aeronautics Association luncheon, Blakey said one way to... Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-bolsters-economy.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-AEgis-ImageScape.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high-resolution world imagery content, and The AEgis Technologies Group, a provider of expert modeling and simulation services, today announced the availability of ImageScape, a rapid 3D imagery solution that will provide governments, enterprises and developers wi... Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-AEgis-ImageScape.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Stardust-fly-by.html On Jan. 14, NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft will fly by Earth during a gravity assist maneuver that will increase its velocity and sling shot the spacecraft into an orbit to meet up with comet Tempel 1 in February 2011. Flight operations for the spacecraft are performed from Lockheed Martin's Missio... Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Stardust-fly-by.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-GPS-OCX-final-milestone.html Raytheon Company has successfully completed two significant milestones for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment, or GPS OCX, establishing a solid foundation and roadmap to keep the program on track and on schedule. The Raytheon-led team completed the segmen... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-GPS-OCX-final-milestone.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-lunar-grants.html The University of Colorado at Boulder was awarded two grants totaling $11 million today from NASA's Lunar Science Institute to probe the cosmos from observatories on the moon and to conduct science and safety investigations on the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. The two CU-Boulder grants fr... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-lunar-grants.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-dust-detector.html The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. Known as the Lunar Dust Experiment, or LDEX, the instru... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-dust-detector.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-nano-comp.html With thousands of hours logged on the project over nearly two years, University of Colorado at Boulder students are approaching the finals in what has been referred to as the national championship series for satellite design, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. CU-Boulder... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-nano-comp.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AIA-workforce-report.html A new report from the aerospace industry promotes the need to convince more students to study math and science and makes proposals to senior policy makers to improve those education disciplines. The new report, "Launching the 21st Century American Aerospace Workforce," documents steps the indust... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AIA-workforce-report.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Alenia.html Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space of Italy announced Dec. 18 they are forming a strategic partnership to jointly develop and deliver a new family of space-based remote sensing systems for customers around the world. The joint business agreement leverages each company’s resources, talents, pr... Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Alenia.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-volcanic-Mars.html Picture a ball. It's an ordinary ball in every way except that it is roughly 4,300 miles in diameter and is moving through the cold of space some 35 million miles from Earth, and hurtling around the sun in just less than two Earth years. This is Mars. After a first glance at the Martian surface, on... Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-volcanic-Mars.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-NGA-NextView.html GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced today it has finalized a Service Level Agreement (SLA) modification to the company's existing NextView contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The value of the SLA is $12.5 million pe... Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-NGA-NextView.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-financial-strength.html The aerospace industry is showing resiliency in trying economic times, ending 2008 with modest growth and continued strength in important areas like foreign trade balance and employment, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Dec. 10. While the industry has not been immune to effects f... Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-financial-strength.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/environtmental-testing-Kepler.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a series of rigorous environmental and operational tests for NASA's Kepler mission to verify seamless operation of the system level hardware and software. The final testing included a formal simulation test, conducted by Ball and the Un... Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/environtmental-testing-Kepler.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-TFSM-Guardian.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered 500 Tactical Fast Steering Mirrors (TFSMs) to Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Guardian(TM) Miniature Pointer Tracker Program, with an additional 300 units currently in production. Fast steering mirror technology is used to compensate for jitter... Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-TFSM-Guardian.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS-09-theme.html The Space Foundation recently announced the "The Next Space Age" as the theme for the 25th National Space Symposium. Celebrating its silver anniversary, the National Space Symposium is the premier annual gathering of the global space community. The event will take place March 30 - April 2 at The Bro... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS-09-theme.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-GOES-R-NASA.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced it has selected Lockheed Martin for award of a contract to build the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series, known as GOES-R, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The bas... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-GOES-R-NASA.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SASSA.html The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract for the development phase of the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) technology demonstration program. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will develop a technology demonstration payload to provide tactical space ... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SASSA.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-OLI.html The Operational Land Imager (OLI) being built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth in the Landsat satellite series, has successfully passed the Instrument Critical Design Review (ICDR). The ICDR, a four-day process in Boulder, included m... Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-OLI.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent-aerospace-incubator.html The nation’s first aerospace business incubator opened it doors Nov. 19 at the Colorado School of Mines, positioning the state as a global economic center for the commercialization of space-derived technologies. With primary funding from the Colorado Economic Development Commission (EDC), the 8th C... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent-aerospace-incubator.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-TODAYshow.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high-resolution world imagery content, announced that it has provided NBC’s TODAY show with access to its extensive library of advanced satellite imagery and to its 3D ImageScape product for the second edition of the "Today Goes to the Ends of the Earth" project. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-TODAYshow.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/STS-125-ball-aerospace.html Five of the seven astronauts who will make repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the 2009 space shuttle mission visited Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. on November 14. Ball Aerospace has a lengthy history with the Hubble Space Telescope. Ball built two instruments to be installed d... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/STS-125-ball-aerospace.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-rocket-sounding.html NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $2 million for graduate students to design, build and launch four payloads on sounding rockets from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to study X-ray emissions from the edges of the solar system and beyond. Centered in CU-Boulder's Cen... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Boulder-rocket-sounding.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-astronaut-scholarship.html Ryan Kobrick, a University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral candidate, has had the dream of being an astronaut since he was a kid. He is now working toward that dream while studying the abrasive nature of lunar dust, with the goal of helping scientists design better, safer and more durable spacesuits... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-astronaut-scholarship.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/butterfly-spider-shuttle.html A NASA space shuttle mission carrying a University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies are being closely monitored by hundreds of K-12 students from Colorado's Front Range after Endeavour launched from Florida for the International Space Station Nov. 14. T... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/butterfly-spider-shuttle.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Stephens-NASA-honor.html Graeme Stephens, a University Distinguished Professor and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, has been awarded two top honors for his exceptional scientific leadership of NASA's CloudSat mission, which was launched in 2006. Earlier this... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Stephens-NASA-honor.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-deCarta.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry under which DigitalGlobe will provide deCarta’s geosp... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-deCarta.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-NAVTEQ.html DigitalGlobe and NAVTEQ announced a new relationship aimed at providing better support to the thousands of software developers using NAVTEQ map data who want to include high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery from DigitalGlobe in their applications. As part of the agreement, DigitalGlobe become... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-NAVTEQ.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NGA-DG-CitySphere2.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high resolution satellite world imagery products and services, today announced that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has purchased the entire CitySphere 2.0 product, the recently launched, enhanced version of DigitalGlobe’s extensive library of on... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NGA-DG-CitySphere2.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-MSL-JPL.html Lockheed Martin recently delivered the backshell for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The backshell is half of the large and sophisticated two-part aeroshell that will encapsulate and protect the MSL rover during its deep space cruise to Mars,... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-MSL-JPL.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-SASSA.html The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract for the development phase of the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) technology demonstration program. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will develop a technology demonstration payload to provide tactical space ... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-SASSA.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Diener-Allan.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high resolution satellite world imagery products and services, today announced the addition of Karen Diener and John Allan to the DigitalGlobe defense team, effective immediately. Karen Diener joins DigitalGlobe as the vice president of business development for t... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Diener-Allan.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-COSMO-3.html A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the third Italian-built Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean Basin Observation or COSMO-SkyMed 3 satellite at 7:28 p.m., October 24. ULA successfully launched the first two Cosmo satel... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-COSMO-3.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ADSS-sensor-pod.html Advanced Distributed Sensor Systems Inc, (ADSS) has received a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $5 million for procurement of ADSS' SensorPod(R) system. ADSS' SensorPod system uses advanced situational awareness and meteorological sensors with integrated communications to gather and communicate vit... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ADSS-sensor-pod.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ada-sensor.html ADA Technologies, Inc. (ADA) announced today that it has completed the spin-off of its distributed sensor division to form a new company -- Advanced Distributed Sensor Systems, Inc. (ADSS). ADSS develops, markets and manufactures a SensorPod(R) system that uses advanced sensor technologies and int... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ada-sensor.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AFRL-ISS.html The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Intelligent Software Solutions a $20.5 million dollar task on their Secure Information Access Analysis and Dissemination contract vehicle.  ISS will undertake efforts related to research, net-centric software development, and support to ongoing comb... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/AFRL-ISS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Virtual-Earth.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. for a multi-year contract under which DigitalGlobe will provide Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with its premium, high-resolution satellite and a... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Virtual-Earth.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-grad-optical-sensing.html A new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging is being established at the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall with the awarding of a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the unique program is to educate the future workforce in... Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-grad-optical-sensing.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/homeland-defense-day.html A one day conference entitled Emerging Technology Day will be sponsored by the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance (CHDA) and hosted by the National Homeland Defense Foundation (NHDF) on October 27, 2008, in conjunction with the annual Homeland Defense/Homeland Security Symposium. This no-fee confere... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/homeland-defense-day.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Mercury.html NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument to measure Mercury's wispy atmosphere and blistering surface, will make its second flyby of the mysterious, rocky planet Oct. 6. Traveling at a mind-blowing 4.2 miles per second, the spacecraft... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-Mercury.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-RS-68A.html United Launch Alliance today announced the successful first hot-firing of the new Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-68A engine that will be used to power a future upgraded version of the Delta IV Heavy Lift launch vehicle. The hot-fire test was conducted 3:16 p.m. CDT, at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Ce... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-RS-68A.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Google.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that it has extended its service agreement with Google to provide high-resolution satellite imagery for Google Maps and Google Earth. The new mult... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-Google.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NOAA-RTlogic.html RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., announced September 22 a contract award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for their Multi-Mission L & S Band Receiver (ML & SBR) project. Under the ML & SBR effort, RT Logic will deliver thirty six Telemetr... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NOAA-RTlogic.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-hubble-fossil-record.html Astronomers will use a $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder now set for installation on the Hubble Space Telescope in mid-October to probe the "fossil record" of gases in the early universe for clues to the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and planets. ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-hubble-fossil-record.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-MAVEN.html Lockheed Martin has been selected by NASA to design, build and operate the spacecraft for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) program. NASA’s newest mission will analyze the upper atmosphere and  past climate change on Mars. The $485-million project is led by principal investi... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-MAVEN.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-space-legislation.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today applauded this week’s introduction of legislation designed to boost the U.S. Government’s commercial space advocacy activities. H.R.6935 and S.3504 were submitted simultan... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-space-legislation.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-mars-mission.html In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential ... Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-mars-mission.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye1-launch.html GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced September 6 the successful launch and deployment of GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution, commercial Earth-imaging satellite. GeoEye's ground station in Norway relayed the downlink signal it received fro... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye1-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-WV2.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and DigitalGlobe announced September 2 that Ball has begun the integration of the completed imaging instrument for the next-generation WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite being built for DigitalGlobe. WorldView-2 will expand DigitalGlobe's collection capabili... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-WV2.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SSTL-US.html Leading small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has set up a new subsidiary in the United States to take advantage of the growing international demand for economical, responsive and highly capable spacecraft for a broad range of applications. The new company, Surre... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SSTL-US.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-NexGen-Sept.html GeoEye, Inc. announced today that United Launch Alliance (ULA) has initiated a change in the target launch date for GeoEye-1 from August 22 to September 4, 2008. This added time is needed to allow for the positioning of resources to support receipt of down-range telemetry from the Delta II booster v... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-NexGen-Sept.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/presidential-debate.html On August 14th, 2008 at 7:30pm MDT, there will be a debate to discuss the space exploration policy of the next President of the United States. The campaigns of Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama will be sending representatives to discuss how their administrations would advance United State... Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/presidential-debate.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-imageconnect.html At the annual ESRI International User Conference on August 5, DigitalGlobe announced the release of ImageConnect: Global, the most extensive online collection of high resolution International imagery available in the world. This new offering provides instant online access to 30.5 million sq km2 of p... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-imageconnect.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-symposium.html A University of Colorado at Boulder symposium Aug. 22-23 will feature top national climate scientists, energy experts and environmental journalists discussing the science of climate change and the road toward a viable national energy strategy. Titled "Meeting the Global Energy and Climate Challenge... Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-symposium.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ImageAtlas.html DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of high resolution satellite world imagery products and services, unveiled ImageAtlas 4.0 July 31, the newest version of its online store for high-resolution digital earth imagery. ImageAtlas 4.0 enables companies in real estate, civil engineering, government, insur... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ImageAtlas.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-virtual.html Lockheed Martin, the Space Foundation and SpaceClass announced today the launch of a strategic online education collaboration called Orion's Path. The interactive virtual classroom project will form a link between teachers, students and NASA's human space exploration program known as Constellation. ... Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-virtual.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NOAA.html The Team GOES-R partnership led by Raytheon Company has submitted its proposal to develop the ground segment for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next- generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series known as GOES-R. Scheduled for launch in 2015, GOES-R will... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NOAA.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Geo-eye.html GeoEye, a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced today that its GeoEye-1 satellite safely arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California, in preparation for its scheduled launch on Aug. 22, 2008. The 4,300-pound satellite was transported by GeoEye's prim... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Geo-eye.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-CitySphere.html Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe today released Citysphere 2.0, an enhanced version of its extensive library of on-demand digital satellite imagery of the most populated global cities. CitySphere 2.0 features the addition of dozens of never-before-available views of global cosmopolitan cities... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-CitySphere.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SpaceFoundation-classes.html The Space Foundation recently completed the first two courses in the 2008 Colorado Springs Space Discovery Institute series. "Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space: Living Aboard the International Space Station" demonstrated an effective way for PreK - 12th grade educators to inspire their stu... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SpaceFoundation-classes.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-sustainability.html Ball Corporation issued the company's first sustainability report on June 30. The 42-page report, titled Toward a Sustainable Future, identifies Ball's sustainability successes, goals and related data about the company's operations. Our prosperity is clearly linked to the prosperity and success of ... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-sustainability.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MichaelGass-P20.html Gov. Bill Ritter announced June 30 that he has named United Launch Alliance President and CEO Michael Gass to serve as a co-chair of the Governor’s P-20 Education Coordinating Council. Gass replaces Bruce Benson, who stepped down as one of three co-chairs earlier this year to become president of th... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MichaelGass-P20.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-payloads.html A NASA sounding rocket launching from Virginia on June 27 will carry one University of Colorado at Boulder student payload to measure greenhouse gases and 19 other payloads developed by teams from around the nation from kits produced by CU-Boulder students. The CU-Boulder payload, developed by a te... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-payloads.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-Jason.html A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket successfully launched the Jason-2 satellite in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason-2) at 12:46 a.m. PDT, June 20. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 2, it marked the second NASA mission launched on a Delta II by ULA this... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA-Jason.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/weatherradar.html Colorado State University this spring installed a unique antenna on one of the nation's most advanced polarimetric weather radars to more precisely detect major storms and precipitation. The new antenna gives scientists a "more delicate knife" to evaluate thunderstorms and the size and distribution ... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/weatherradar.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Geoeye_contracts.html GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced on June 4, 2008 new awards totaling $22 million to supply geospatial products and related services. Under this award GeoEye will provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) a sign... Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Geoeye_contracts.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cuspaceshuttle.html The launch of a University of Colorado at Boulder-built biomedical experiment aboard the space shuttle Discovery May 31 follows on the heels of an agreement between NASA and CU-Boulder to fly university payloads on every shuttle mission to the International Space Station until the shuttle program is... Thu, 29 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cuspaceshuttle.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-goddard.html NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has named Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. as a winner of the 2008 Goddard Contractor Excellence Award. The prestigious award recognizes companies that have significantly contributed to the success of the Goddard Space Flight Center's mission. Ball Aeros... Wed, 28 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-goddard.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-oilgas.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today unveiled ImageConnect: Oil and Gas, an online imagery service for oil and gas professionals worldwide with on-demand access via GIS and WMS services to areas of ... Tue, 27 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DG-oilgas.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/phoenix-lander.html NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. On May 26, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice. At 4:24 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, ... Tue, 27 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/phoenix-lander.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Phalanx.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun assembly on three qualification test units for the Phalanx All-Light Marine TV (ALMTV) camera program. Ball Aerospace will build three ALMTV camera systems in 10 months under contract to Raytheon Company, and qualify the design in anticipation of a full... Wed, 21 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Phalanx.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ABSL-battery.html On 12th May 2008, at the end of a competitive process, ABSL was awarded the contract to supply Lithium-ion battery hardware to power the astronaut Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) by NASA Johnson Space Center. ABSL batteries will power systems providing critical life support to astronauts during s... Tue, 20 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ABSL-battery.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-GPS3.html The U.S. Air Force today announced that a team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Space System program, known as GPS III. This program will improve position, navigation, and timing services for the warfighter and civil users w... Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-GPS3.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-1-launch.html GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced an August 22, 2008 launch date for its next-generation, earth imaging satellite GeoEye-1. Boeing Launch Services and GeoEye finalized this launch date in an amendment to the Launch Service Agreement that was ... Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/geoeye-1-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-team-to-build--34-million-instrument-package-for-u-s--environmental-satellite.html A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite mission slated for launch in 2013. The package will be built by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for ... Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cu-team-to-build--34-million-instrument-package-for-u-s--environmental-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MicroSat-contract.html ORBCOMM Inc., a leading global satellite data communications company providing two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, announced May 5 that it has signed a next generation satellite constellation contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build 18 new ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satell... Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MicroSat-contract.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-space-prize.html The unmanned aerial vehicle team from Colorado State University took home the grand prize at the 2008 Undergraduate Space Research Symposium sponsored by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. The team - mechanical engineering seniors Allison Porter, Chris Lawhorn and Grant Rhodes - designed and cons... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSU-space-prize.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-sensing.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded two NASA contracts that support the agency's Science Mission Directorate 2007 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) in developing Earth science instrument subsystem technologies. Ball will also participate in a third contract as co-investigators on a... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-sensing.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cloudsat-achievement.html CloudSat, a joint project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Colorado State University and other agencies, has received a Rotary National Award for Space Achievement for providing unprecedented perspectives of Earth's clouds. CloudSat, which is the world's first cloud-profiling radar in orbit, la... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/cloudsat-achievement.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Weimer-CALIPSO.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Carl Weimer will be awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal during a ceremony May 8, for his work on the Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission. One of NASA's most prestigious honors, the award is presented... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Weimer-CALIPSO.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SRC-PItrackR.html SRC Computers, Inc., a leader in reconfigurable computing systems, has announced that it has been selected to provide processors for the Precision Image Tracking and Registration (PI TrackR) program developed by the Air Force Research Lab's (AFRL) Sensors Directorate. SRC's COTS Portable MAPstations... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SRC-PItrackR.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-autodesk.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that it has joined Autodesk's data initiative. DigitalGlobe's participation in the initiative will give Autodesk customers quick, easy and affordable access to h... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/DigitalGlobe-autodesk.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview2-boeing.html DigitalGlobe, provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that it has chosen Boeing Launch Services for the launch of WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe’s third remote-sensing satellite. WorldView-2 will offer the industry’s highest collection... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview2-boeing.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-lidar.html University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Xinzhao Chu has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a revolutionary lidar that will allow scientists to probe the upper layers of the atmosphere with unprecedented accuracy. Chu's MRI lidar will allow scientists... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-lidar.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-warfare-protection.html The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1.2 million to develop a new type of composite membrane with molecule-sized pores to protect people and facilities from airborne industrial toxins and chemical warfare agents. The three-year grant from DTRA, an a... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-warfare-protection.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-sounding.html The University of Colorado at Boulder's own version of "The Rocket Boys" (and Girls) will help to launch a CU payload on a sounding rocket to measure ultraviolet radiation from the sun from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico April 10. Developed by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric an... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-sounding.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ICO-G1.html Lockheed Martin is completing final preparations for Monday's launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance. The launch window opens at 4:12 p.m. EDT Monday and extends until 5:12 p.m. The launch can be viewed live at www.ulalaunch.c... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ICO-G1.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSCWeb.html The Colorado Space Coalition (CSC) launched its new Web site, www.spacecolorado.org, on April 8, 2008 as the country's top aerospace leaders gathered in Colorado Springs for the 24th National Space Symposium (NSS). Over 7,500 people will attend the NSS, including senior aerospace executive leadersh... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CSCWeb.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-gathering.html Top leaders from industry, academia, NASA and other government agencies will come together at the 3rd Space Exploration Conference, Feb. 26–28 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in coordination with NASA, the event ... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/space-gathering.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/24th-NSS.html The 24th National Space Symposium will see participation by several members of Congress, including Senator Wayne Allard, Congressman Mark Udall, and Congresswoman Heather Wilson. Allard and Udall will both give featured speeches. Wilson will make remarks at a luncheon in honor of Congressional Membe... Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/24th-NSS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-LIDAR.html Merrick & Company was awarded a contract by REIS, Inc. (Monroe, NY) to deliver raw and processed LIDAR data and digital black and white orthophotography for approximately 900 square miles in Sullivan County, New York. The company is a world leader in LIDAR, digital ortho imaging, photogrammetry and ... Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/merrick-LIDAR.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent.html Eighth Continent project to integrate space business into global economy The Eighth Continent Project, the world’s most comprehensive program to integrate space technology and resources into the global economy, was launched here today at the Colorado School of Mines Center for Space Resources. "Fo... Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/8th-continent.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SEAKR-IRIS.html SEAKR Engineering, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Cisco to build the Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) payload consisting of an IP layer 3 router and an IP Programmable MODEM. This payload is part of the IRIS initiative announced last April by Intelsat General, which was selected by the Departme... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/SEAKR-IRIS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MicroSat-Inc.html Inc. Magazine ranked MicroSat Systems among its first-ever Inc. 5,000, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list, an extension of Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as w... Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/MicroSat-Inc.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Kepler.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed two significant milestones for the Kepler Mission: the precision coating process of Kepler's primary mirror, and the integration of the detector array assembly. These milestones meet a critical path requirement and allow the program to b... Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-Kepler.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-orbital.html The first-of-its kind, autonomous servicing demonstration satellite launched on Thursday, March 8, 2007, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The three-month space mission is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Th... Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ball-orbital.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Orion.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today that it has selected the Lockheed Martin team to design and build the agency’s next-generation human space flight crew transportation system known as Orion, with an initial contract value of approximately $4 billion. Orion, a... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Lockheed-Orion.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-GPS.html The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Raytheon a $160 million, 18-month contract to develop a new system design for the next-generation global positioning system control segment (GPS OCX), which will enhance both warfighter and civilian GPS performance. The contract award was N... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-GPS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GRAIL.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) newest mission will analyze the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Earth's moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission is the latest mission under NASA’s Discovery Program. Lockheed Martin will desig... Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GRAIL.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NPOESS.html Raytheon Company has achieved a significant program milestone for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by successfully completing the first phase of a major communications upgrade for Antarctica. The upgrade of the off-continent satellite communications li... Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Raytheon-NPOESS.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CloudSat.html New findings from NASA's CloudSat and other spacecraft in NASA's "A-Train" constellation of five Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds. The investigations are giving sc... Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CloudSat.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-MESSENGER.html NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a mind-boggling 141,000 miles per hour. Launched in Au... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-MESSENGER.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/WV1-imagery.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that WorldView-1 has reached Full Operating Capability (FOC) for all customers. The general availability of WorldView-1 imagery marks the final milestone for the... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/WV1-imagery.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-2.html GeoEye, Inc., a leading producer of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, announced it has contracted with ITT Corporation to begin work on the camera for GeoEye's next satellite, GeoEye-2. This is the first step in a phased development process for an advanced, third-generation sa... Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GeoEye-2.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview-1.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced the successful launch and deployment of WorldView-1, the most agile commercial satellite ever flown. The satellite launched at approximately 11:35 AM PDT on a Bo... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/worldview-1.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ron-Sega.html Ronald M. Sega, former NASA astronaut and current Under Secretary for the U.S. Air Force, will join Colorado State University as a professor of systems engineering and as vice president for Applied Research for the Colorado State University Research Foundation (CSURF). Sega brings decades of experi... Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/Ron-Sega.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS-07.html With the nation’s third largest space economy, Colorado offers aerospace companies the country’s most educated space workforce and a dynamic atmosphere for business growth. And that message had a receptive audience at the National Space Symposium, the premier U.S. space forum for aerospace companie... Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NSS-07.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA.html Partnership could bring 800 new aerospace jobs to Metro Denver HQ In December 2006, Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced the official completion of an agreement to combine the companies' expendable launch vehicle business under a 50/50 joint venture coined the United Launch Alliance (ULA). The ne... Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ULA.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-economy.html The Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation (Metro Denver EDC) released its 2007 Aerospace Industry Cluster Profile on September 19, 2007, which reported that Colorado’s aerospace economy has propelled to the nation’s No. 2 position for private aerospace employment. With 26,650 people employ... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/aerospace-economy.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NASA-CU.html NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1 million to lead the study of a space observatory to find Earth-like planets in distant solar systems and open the search for life outside our solar system. A second proposal from the Naval Research Laboratory involving CU-Boulder also was se... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/NASA-CU.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-astronaut.html NASA's space shuttle Endeavour will be carrying a former University of Colorado at Boulder postdoctoral researcher, a campus-built biomedical payload and two CU educational experiments when it blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on Tuesday, March 11. Takao Doi, who conducted postdoctoral work at CU... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/CU-astronaut.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-satellite.html Team prepares next satellite for late-December launch The modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 17, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a successful on-orbit c... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/deep-impact.html The flyby spacecraft built for the successful Deep Impact Mission by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been funded by NASA to embark on a new mission to encounter comet Hartley 2 on October 11, 2010. The Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI), and the Extrasolar Planet Observations and Cha... Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/deep-impact.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-record.html Themodernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 20, 2007, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a record-setting on-orbit deployment by a joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed M... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/lockheed-record.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-milestone.html The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. free-flying atmospheric lidar aboard NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, fired its one billionth laser pulse over the Ivory Coast on Sunday, Feb. 3., making it the longest lasting, most powerful on-orbit... Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/ball-milestone.html http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GOES-R.html Lockheed Martin submitted its proposal to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R (GOES-R), the next generation geostationary environmental satellites for the National Oceanic and... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.org/news/GOES-R.html