Space Awareness
Summary of The Space Report Data at SmallSat Symposium
Have we reached the top of the growth curve for Small Satellites? This was one of the questions addressed by the Space Foundation’s Director of Research and Analysis, Micah Walter-Range, as a panelist at the inaugural SmallSat Symposium in Menlo Park, Calif. Looking at the satellite deployment data added to The Space Report daily, the…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
Speeding to a Crawl by John Holst, Space Foundation Research Analyst To launch a big rocket requires an even bigger vehicle to move it around before a launch. This is why NASA just finished in February 2015 a two-year renovation of a 50-year old vehicle for use with its planned Space Launch System. The special…
Peterson AF Base Holds Eagle Vision Briefing
Space Foundation Chief Operating Officer Shelli Brunswick visited Peterson AF Base, Colorado Springs, in June for a special briefing and live demonstration of how the Eagle Vision deployable ground station supports the warfighter. The briefing included a live satellite pass over Peterson and demonstrations by a team from Washington, D.C., and the Pentagon. According to…
NDIA Space Division Honors Hyten and Sears
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Space Division has announced the 2014 recipients of its highest recognition, the Honorable Peter B. Teets Award. The award recognizes public or private sector leadership or achievement that results in significant contributions to the development, introduction, operational contribution or support of space systems. The 2014 Industry honoree is Kay…
Buzz Aldrin Heads Lineup of Presenters at Space Foundation Yuri's Night
Guest article by Stephen Black, Sr. Director, Advanced Products and Solutions, ASRC Federal The Space Foundation’s first Yuri’s Night celebration commemorated the first human orbital space launch of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, and the inaugural launch of America’s Space Shuttle Mission STS-1, with astronauts John Young and Robert (Bob) Crippen on…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
From Underneath Apollo’s Boilerplate, a Pegasus Emerges by John Holst, Space Foundation Research Analyst One very early morning in May 1965, fire emerged from the Earth and disappeared into Florida’s night sky. The fire, a Saturn I rocket launch plume, propelled an unmanned payload for NASA’s Apollo program into space. There were genuine fears within…
Remembering Leonard Nimoy
Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham was asked by Fox News to write a remembrance of Leonard Nimoy at the time of his passing. Pulham got to know Nimoy when he attended the Space Foundation’s 26th Space Symposium in 2010. Nimoy was the recipient of the Space Foundation’s Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award…
Pulham Congratulates NASA/Industry Team on Successful Test Firing of Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster
On March 11, Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham congratulated NASA and its industry partners on a successful test firing of the new, five-segment solid rocket booster for the Space Launch System (SLS), the new U.S. launch system that will take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit. During the test in Promontory, Utah, the new…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
by John Holst, Space Foundation Research Analyst Apollo’s Engine Still Powers On Fifty years ago, the roar of an engine was heard throughout the Tennessee Valley, bouncing off the small hill the locals called Monte Sano. The thundering was heard for miles around, and whether the Alabama residents knew it or not, on 16 April,…
Highlighting Two Space Technology Hall of Fame Inductees
by Rebecca Williams, Space Foundation Space Awareness Program Coordinator With the 31st Space Symposium on the horizon, I would like to highlight two of our Space Certification corporate level partners whose technology has been inducted into the prestigious Space Technology Hall of Fame®. The Space Technology Hall of Fame® comprises many extraordinary innovations — all…