Roy Mark

Astronauts on the Hubble-bound repair mission deployed a robotic arm and sensor May 12 to inspect the space shuttle Atlantis’ heat shields after NASA officials became concerned over possible launch damage. Atlantis blasted off to the Hubble Space Telescope May 11.According to NASA, the liftoff damaged about 25 square feet of the shuttle’s launch pad […]

An international team based in the Netherlands has entered the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million competition to successfully launch, land and operate a robotic rover on the lunar surface. Known as White Label Space, the new team consists of space professionals from more than 11 countries across the globe.A “white label” product is […]

AirTran Airways announced May 12 it will become the first major airline to offer passengers Wi-Fi broadband Internet access on every flight across its entire fleet of Boeing 737 and 717 aircraft. Other airlines, including Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines, offer Wi-Fi but only selected flights.The airline said all 136 AirTran […]

With the United States’ legacy GPS satellites progressively failing and the Air Force’s efforts to replace them faltering, the Government Accountability Office says there are serious questions looming as to whether the government will be able to acquire new satellites in time to maintain current military, enterprise and civilian GPS needs without interruption.In addition to […]

The space shuttle Atlantis successfully launched May 11 for an 11-day repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. For NASA’s shuttle program, due to be retired in late 2010, it is the last service call to the 19-year-old Hubble. The launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida went went off without incident at 2:02 […]

While President Obama’s 2010 NASA budget drew praise from NASA officials May 7, not everyone is happy with the $18.69 billion allocated to America’s space program. The budget request is an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in former President Bush’s last NASA budget.In addition to continued “robust” funding of manned […]

NASA said May 8 all systems are go for a May 11 manned mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The deployment of Atlantis to the Hubble — which is in desperate need of repairs — represents the space shuttle’s fifth and final trip to the space telescope before the fleet is retired in late 2010. […]

The White House plans an outside review of NASA’s program to return to the moon. The 90-day inquiry will re-examine NASA’s replacement plans for the space shuttle fleet, currently scheduled for retirement late in 2010, and whether it might be better to bypass the moon in favor of missions farther out into the solar system. […]

NASA Atlantis Shuttle Takes Final Ride to Hubble Telescope by Roy Mark The Mission: Keep Hubble Operational Over the course of five spacewalks, astronauts will install two new instruments, repair two inactive ones and perform the component replacements that will keep the telescope functioning at least into 2014. Atlantis’ crew is charged with replacing Hubble’s […]

General Electric announced May 7 it will invest $3 billion over the next six years in health care innovation. The company also said it would will commit $2 billion of financing and $1 billion in related GE technology and content to improve health care IT and health in rural and underserved areas. The GE Healthymagination […]