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The Association of Space Explorers Partners with ISU
Strasbourg, France (Feb. 16, 2011) – An historic partnership agreement has been signed by the European Section of the Association of Space Explorers representing Europe’s astronauts and the International Space University. The agreement was signed on Feb. 14, 2011, at the United Nations center in Vienna, Austria, by the president of ASE Europe, Cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin…
The International Space University Welcomes Worldwide Space Experts During Annual Symposium
Strasbourg, France (Feb. 14, 2011) – From 15 to 17 February, the International Space University (ISU) in collaboration with NASA will welcome more than 150 space experts from various space agencies, industries and academia at the occasion of its 15th Annual Symposium entitled “The International Space Station: Maximizing the Return from Extended Operations.” Each year,…
Aerojet and Raytheon Complete System Integration Test for Standard Missile-3
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2011) — Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) announced today that the companies completed a kinetic warhead System Integration Test (SIT) for the Standard Missile-3 Block IB (SM-3 Blk IB) missile, verifying the ability of the kinetic warhead to detect, track and engage a ballistic missile…
Aerojet, Orbital and NASA Hot Fire Aerojet's AJ26 Flight Engine for Taurus® II Space Launch Vehicle
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Feb. 8, 2011) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) (Orbital), conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital’s Taurus® II medium-class launch vehicle. The test, conducted yesterday afternoon at NASA’s Stennis Space…
Advanced Flexible Materials and Trex Company Announce Heatsheets® Recycling Program
PETALUMA, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2011) – Advanced Flexible Materials (AFMInc) will partner with Trex Company to launch the “Heatsheets® Blankets-to-Boards” recycling program at Running USA 2011: The Industry Conference held Feb. 13-15 in San Antonio, Texas. “This cooperative effort marks another major step in AFMInc’s ongoing effort to provide race participants with a turnkey solution…
Space Florida and Bigelow Aerospace Sign MOU to Explore Customers for Orbital Space Complex
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Feb. 3, 2011) – Space Florida President Frank DiBello and Robert Bigelow, president of Bigelow Aerospace, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Feb. 2, agreeing to work together to pursue and identify foreign and domestic companies that could benefit from utilization of Bigelow’s expandable, orbital space complexes. Bigelow currently has two pathfinder…
Aerojet Engines Power Japanese HTV Mission to International Space Station
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Jan. 24, 2011) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that the second Japanese re-supply vehicle, HII Transfer Vehicle (HTV) – named KOUNOTORI2, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. The HTV was launched on Saturday, Jan. 22 aboard an H-IIB vehicle…
International Space Education Program Opens in Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Australia/STRASBOURG, France (Jan. 5, 2011) – The University of South Australia has joined forces with the International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg, France, to bring world class space education to the southern hemisphere with a new five-week intensive program set to launch 5 January 2011. The Opening Ceremony for the new program will be held…
Outlast Develops First Climate-Regulating Polyester Fiber with Phase Change Material; Not Too Hot and Not Too Cold
HEIDENHEIM, Germany (Dec. 31, 2010) – Outlast Technologies broadens its product offering by maintaining a steady pace of innovation. After intensive research and development, Outlast Technologies, Inc., Boulder/Colorado, the market leader in temperature regulating phase change materials (PCMs), is pleased to announce the introduction of Outlast® polyester fiber. This announcement comes just four years after…
Aerojet Propulsion Remains Operational as Voyager 1 Approaches Interstellar Space
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Dec. 23, 2010) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, celebrates NASA’s recent announcement that Voyager 1 has reached a point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now approximately 10.8 billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1’s passage through the heliosheath, the turbulent…