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Giant Ring Discovered Around Saturn
This artist’s conception depicts a massive, yet nearly invisible, ring around Saturn, recently discovered by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. It is made up of ice and dust particles and is the largest of Saturn’s many rings. According to NASA, it would take one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring. Announced Oct. 7 by…
Articles Outline Chinese Space Program
AVIATION WEEK has published two articles on the Chinese space program and details of the historic Space Foundation delegation visit to China’s manned spaceflight facilities and its meetings with leaders of China’s human spaceflight program. An article by delegation member Frank Morring, Jr., published Oct. 9 gives a rare look at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch…
The Space Report: Space Offers Lucrative Jobs
According to The Space Report 2009: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity, America’s space industry is widely dispersed, with 40 states and the District of Columbia reporting employment in at least one of the six core space industry segments. Space industry wages were highest in Washington, D.C., with an annual average of $113,738, compared…
Register Now for Strategic Space Symposium
Next month’s Strategic Space Symposium will feature two full days of speeches, panel discussions, interactive breakout sessions, and exhibits focused directly on global space strategy and warfighter issues and requirements. Plus, there will be ample time for networking, discussion, and debate with space leaders from the military, government, and industry. Themed Advancing Space Capabilities and Strengthening Operations…
Symposium Offers Powerful General Session Speakers
The main stage at the Strategic Space Symposium – Nov. 2-4 at the Qwest Center Omaha – features an impressive line-up of space leaders. Featured Speakers include (click on the name for more information on the speaker): Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell, USA, commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense Gen. Bruce Carlson, USAF (Retired), director, National…
Track Sessions to Explore Strategy, Solutions
The Strategic Space Symposium will provide attendees with extraordinary opportunities to learn about, discuss, and provide input into space strategy to support warfighters’ needs. The three concurrent track sessions will provide the best opportunity for discussion and debate. Featuring top industry, government, and military leaders, each of the small, informal sessions will be offered three…
Strategic Space Symposium Sponsors Shine
Tip Osterthaler, president and CEO of AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) has good reasons for his company’s major sponsorship role at the upcoming Strategic Space Symposium Nov. 2-4 at the Qwest Center Omaha. “We’re looking forward to the many opportunities the Strategic Space Symposium offers: contact with our biggest customers, a chance to showcase our newest capabilities, and plenty…
Space News will Keep Attendees in the Know
Space News is the Space Foundation’s exclusive media partner for the Strategic Space Symposium. Founded in 1989, Space News is the only weekly publication fully dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry – commercial, military, and civil. It covers topics ranging from the latest trends in military space capabilities to breaking developments in…
Toffler Black and White Paper Calls for Space Unity
In June, Space Foundation partner Toffler Associates hosted a group of leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss the future of the space industry. The meeting, which was held in conjunction with the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum: New York, brought together executives and leaders representing government agencies, non-profit organizations, large multinational corporations,…
Space Improves Health on Earth
Space products and services and their related space technology spinoffs have become part of daily life in ways that most people take for granted, and often in ways that don’t even bring space to mind. For example, many people don’t realize what a significant role space plays in health care. Some examples, excerpted from the…