Space Foundation News & Media
Iridium Pilot™ Raises the Bar for Affordable Broadband Maritime Communications
MCLEAN, Va. (Feb. 9, 2012) – Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) announces the launch of its second-generation maritime broadband platform, Iridium Pilot™. Iridium Pilot will utilize the Iridium OpenPort® service – the world’s first when it comes to fully global maritime broadband. Iridium Pilot is engineered for enhanced durability to withstand the harshest maritime…
NASA Social Media Team to Receive 2012 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 8, 2012) — The NASA Social Media Team has been selected as the winner of the Space Foundation’s Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is presented annually to an individual, team or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of, and support for, space programs. The award will…
Space Foundation Launches Hot New Website
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 6, 2012) – The Space Foundation last week launched a new website – http://www.spacefoundation.org – that provides an easy-to-navigate, comprehensive view of how the Space Foundation advances space-related endeavors to inspire, enable and propel humanity. Features include: Comprehensive, easy-to-find information on Space Foundation programs and initiatives More than 2,400 pages of…
Georgetown Med School Alumnus Researches Gene Therapy, Writes Novel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 6, 2012) – Fred Ledley (M’78) combines his love of writing and work as a gene therapy researcher in his first published novel, Sputnik’s Child. He says the book shows how baby boomers growing up with the startling discoveries in science of the 1960s and 1970s came to have so much confidence…
Good News for AGI
The Space Foundation welcomes STK software by Analytical Graphics, Inc., (AGI), as its newest Certified Educational Product partner. Already a Certified Space Technology, STK has been added to the Certified Educational Product category in recognition of its use for student and teacher education programs at the AGI Space Missions Simulator at the Space Foundation Discovery…
DoD 2012 Budget Report
The Space Foundation tracked the Fiscal Year 2012 budget request for U.S. Department of Defense space programs through the legislative process. Read the report and other Space Foundation research and anaylsis reports from Washington, D.C. here. The document identifies U.S. Department of Defense space programs and its authorized and appropriated funding levels for FY 2012, as signed…
U.S. to Help Develop Space Code of Conduct
According to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the United States will join Europe and other nations in developing an International Code of Conduct for Space Operations. The State Department issued a one-page supplementary document in January explaining the need for an International Code of Conduct. The document states: Space is vital to protecting U.S.…
Letter on LightSquared
Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary for the Department of Defense, and John Porcari, deputy secretary for the Department of Transportation, have written a letter to Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary for the Department of Commerce on the LightSquared findings by the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Executive Committee (EXCOM). Letter excerpts state: ….the unanimous conclusion…
White House Guidance for a 21st Century DoD
President Barack Obama has announced new strategic guidance for a 21st century Department of Defense that will sustain U.S. global leadership and protect its core national interests. As the United States transitions away from two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and confronts defense cuts mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, the President outlined…
Space Foundation Co-Hosts Australian Embassy Event
The Space Foundation and Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley hosted a reception at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1 for 200 space leaders from government and industry who joined together in honor of the long space endeavor partnership between the United States and Australia. Representing the Space Foundation board of directors were Chairman…