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NASA"s commercial cargo providers
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
|LC Classifications||KF27 .S3995 2011b|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||iv, 117 p. :|
|Number of Pages||117|
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NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting p.m. EDT Wednesday, J for the launch of its 18th resupply mission to the International Space coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agencyswebsite with prelaunch events Tuesday, July The companys Dragon spacecraft will deliver supplies and critical materials to directly support dozens of . NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in Author: Scott Sonner, Associated Press.
At some point a “prepared for delivery” version of NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver’s speech Thursday might show up on the NASA web site, but it will likely be different from the speech she actually gave to kick off the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace Conference at NASA Ames Research Center in California. Garver instead scanned through the agenda of the three-day. Dream Chaser looks a bit like a stubby version of the space shuttle; it is based on NASA and Russian designs. The spacecraft is about 30 feet (9 meters) long and can carry up to .
The Wealth of Constellations. and a few more to bring cargo there. A single commercial launch company, however, needs morepossibly many morelaunches than that each year to stay in the black Author: Washmonthly. Nathan Apodaca acted as the program manager in charge of full-time employees providing end-to-end IT user-centric services in order to enable NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees to have a mission focused approach.
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Get this from a library. NASA's commercial cargo providers: are they ready to supply the space station in the post-shuttle era?: hearing before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, Thursday, [United States.
The Lunar Gateway is an in-development mini-space station in lunar orbit intended to serve as a solar-powered communication hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation module, and holding area for rovers and other robots.
It is expected to play a major role in NASA's Artemis program, after While the project is led by NASA, the Gateway is meant to be developed, serviced, and utilized in Carrier rocket: Commercial launch vehicles, Proton-M. The Artemis program is an ongoing crewed spaceflight program carried out predominantly by NASA, U.S.
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17 commercial air cargo. NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit.
The award is a significant step forward for NASA’s Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the moon by [ ]. "The President's budget request recommends bidding the launch for Europa Clipper out to commercial launch service providers rather than using NASA's SLS.
The Artemis―a Greek mythological Goddess and the twin sister of Apollo, now personifying NASA’s path to the moon― consists of a Space Launch System (SLS), an Orion Spacecraft and the Gateway. Space Launch System (SLS) is a modern rocket with the largest and most powerful boosters ever built for flight.
It is the only rocket manufactured with the ability to launch heavy cargo shipments. SpaceX got $ billion under NASAs commercial crew program, while Boeing received more than $4 billion. The goal was to launch NASA astronauts by Because of delays, NASA is looking to buy another two seats on Russian rockets in and to guarantee a.
OIG's report noted that NASA's contract for the six missions required each provider supply a spacecraft that could fly four astronauts and kilograms of cargo. The Commercial. 10 - Commercial Cargo/Crew Program.
11 - Commercial Space Shuttle Freighter. 12 – USAF Missed the Mark. 13 – Today. Tomorrow’s Challenges. When we fail to learn from our mistakes we will most certainly fail again. Preface. SpaceX. NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Gateway Logistics Services (Press Release – March 27). NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S.
commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit. The award is a significant step forward for NASA’s Artemis program.
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– Reaction of Commercial Spaceflight Federation: Much the same as NASA. “Less funding for the commercial. NASA fears there will not be enough money to fund commercial providers such as SpaceX.
The anomaly on this launch was the first engine shutdown on a Falcon 9 launch since the companys first cargo Dragon launch for NASAs Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program, CRS-1, in October One of nine Merlin engines failed during ascent, but. – Staff writer, Orlando Business Journal Jun 3,am EDT Rocket maker Blue Origin LLC is joining NASA's list of contractors to deliver cargo to space.
There have been a number of Russian launch failures recently, including of a Russian Progress cargo flight to the ISS. Force NASA to spend more on additional Russian launches than the cuts save; Potentially end two providers for Commercial Crew.
This is important since two competing different providers will: Keep prices down. He aslo defended NASA’s plans to develop commercial crew and cargo capabilities, noting that commercial providers are already used to launch “our most valuable payloads”. “My guess is that the American workers who have successfully built and launched the Atlas 5 20 times in a row would probably disagree that US commercial spaceflight is.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data NASA at interviews with NASA senior leadership / Rebecca Wright, Sandra in the position of managing 10 little NASAs, each with their own full and commercial providers can always increase, but not unless the attitude is right.
Chapter 2. Another contributing factor to SpaceX’s commercial crew launch date slippages is that it has only a few, perhaps little more than two or three dozen, SpaceX employees working full-time on commercial crew; most of the others are multi-tasked to Cargo Resupply, Red Dragon, and commercial satellite services.
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1 The situation is now shifting. NASA is attempting to create new markets that fuel a sustainable Earth-LEO economy, or, as Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS, put it, to “sustain economic activity in LEO Cited by: 9. Today, however, with the help of government funding, a number of private space companies are developing vehicles designed first to carry cargo to the ISS, and, later, crews.
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Drone flight procedure
The Emergency Management team must approve all requests to fly a drone on university property and a few basic requirements must first be met.
- FAA License and Drone Registration
All flights conducted on any UCF campus must be performed by a pilot in possession of a FAA Part 107 – Small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) license. In accordance with the rules set forth by FAA Part 107 the UAS must be registered with the FAA.
A Certificate of Insurance (COI) provides needed proof of insurance for off campus, non-University affiliated organizations, and/or unapproved vendors who will stage events, or provide products or services on campus. These groups or businesses wishing to fly a drone on campus must provide a current Certificate of Insurance indicating minimum General Liability coverage in the amount of $5 million per occurrence and $5 million aggregate, listing University of Central Florida Board of Trustees as “Additional Insured” and UCF Risk Management as “Certificate Holder.” They must also submit the Additional Insured Endorsement (AIE) naming University of Central Florida Board of Trustees and the General Liability Unmanned Aircraft Endorsement. [Sample attached, COI (pg.1) AIE (pg.2), and GL Unmanned Aircraft Endorsement (pg. 4-7) with items in RED which are required].
*Note – the insurance requirement does not apply to university employees flying drones for official university purposes as they would be covered under the general liability policy.
3. Flight Request Form: Once you have an approved pilot and the required insurance, please submit a request with a copy of your FAA license, FAA drone registration, and insurance paperwork, flight dates/times, and flight path here. Please note that all flight requests should be submitted at least 10 days prior to your documented flight.


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In times of economic austerity, the recent debates on defence capabilities have centred on Europe’s clear development and innovation lag, warned against the cuts in national defence budgets, and called for ‘pooling & sharing’ strategies for enhanced defence cooperation at the EU level. The EU is currently faced with clear tactical choices in this field, by pursuing defence capacity build-up strategies in unmanned aerial programmes and by extensively funding for military-grade drone research and ‘dual-use technologies’, in order to strengthen its defence industrial base and to preserve its security autonomy in the future.
Unmanned vehicles or so-called ‘drones’ have recently become major force multipliers in conducting ‘smart’ warfare, surveillance missions, and more generally intelligence gathering. By both reducing boots on the ground in civil and military operations and by providing reliable data through competitive surveillance capacities at affordable costs, drones have caught the attention of political decision-makers and military planners alike, as the next step in revolutionizing 21st century security-making. In recent years, drones have arguably enjoyed significant successes in effectively countering terrorist threats by protecting soldiers and limiting the number of civilian deaths in theatres of action. Nevertheless, the use of drones has also triggered a number of ethical and jus in bello concerns[i], especially in instances where chain-of-command decisions on drone strikes raise questions of transparency, discrimination, and proportionality.
The use of weaponized military drones or armed unmanned aerial vehicles – ‘hunter-killer drones’[ii] in contemporary conflicts is argued to have changed the style of warfare, the employ of robotic technology in combat situations calling for a new ethical framework for conducting war. As well, the surveillance capability of unarmed and camera-equipped aerial drones allows for a wide range of both military and civilian tasks: data gathering, ‘border monitoring, assessing damage to critical infrastructure (e.g. nuclear power plants), guiding search and rescue workers at natural disaster sites, monitoring weather patterns, searching for persons missing in difficult terrain, and tracking the spread of large-scale fires’[iii].
Weaponized Drones and Just War
Drone fighting, like other long-range fighting, needs to take into account several ethical implications: this practice is conducive to easier kills by creating both physical and moral distance[iv] when engaging opponents in conflict situations. This double-distance is translated in the so-called ‘screenfighting’[v] and the bureaucratization of killing[vi], which imply the lack of human empathy and the removal of moral and psychological barriers to killing. While drone technology can be employed with little risks and costs, the fighting process involves worrying de-humanising practices redolent of computer war games. Moreover, questions arise concerning the accuracy and reliability of such technologies to identify an appropriate target, further complicated by public trust issues in government and military officials responsible with drone strikes decisions.
To address such concerns, several principles inherent to jus in bello need to be codified[vii]: the principle of military necessity, the principle of distinction (between soldiers and civilians), the principle of proportionality (the use of force must be proportional to the military objectives to be achieved), and lastly and probably the most important one, the principle of humanity (the military force must avoid civilian suffering and casualties, and the destruction of propriety). The legal issues associated with drone strikes generally refer to the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1373 and 1973, the former centred on post September 11 counter-terrorist operations, and the latter on military operations and interventions in Libya during the Gaddafi regime overthrow.
Drones and Civil-Military Relations
The defence development in the EU will need to draw from the broadening flood of the civilian technological progress, thus reversing the traditional logic of an outflow from military technological innovation into the civilian realm. Such spill-overs, spin-offs or spin-ins in the realm of civilian technological Research & Development (R&D) will allegedly contribute to the creation of cutting-edge and competitive EU defence technologies on the international market. A hybrid civilian-military industrial basecould be the much needed solution for the current economic crisis and the EU’s ‘capabilities-development gap’ as regards security and defence, but there are still risks attached to dual-use research, such as differing strategic goals for product design and profit. Interoperability is the key word concerning the advance ofhybrid unmanned vehicles within the EU, priority being given to the development of low-cost multi-use technologies for civilian and military purposes.
The EU institutions have also been working on streamlining regulatory and technological barriers limiting the flight of drones in civilian airspace – the European Commission published in June 2013 a roadmap[viii], ‘Roadmap for the integration of civil RPAS into the European Aviation System’, thus paving the way for the safe integration of RPAS into the European airspace starting in 2016. Prioritizing Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) by integrating them into civil European airspace has become a key matter on the Brussels-based European Defence Agency’s (EDA) agenda. The main selling point put forward by the EDA is that such cross-fertilizations between civilian and military R&D are economically profitable and that the military and the defence sectors dedicated to drone development can become a stimulating force to the civilian industry and market – for instance by employing labour force or by just prompting technological spin-offs in both the military and the civilian dimensions.
Eurodrones – a Solution Creating Further Problems
While Eurocrats, governmental officials, and the industry at large have all warned against the current sorry state of the European defence, rules prohibit the EU to tap research grants under the ‘Horizon 2020’ or the FP7 schemes for specifically funding military and defence projects. Nevertheless, the concept of ‘dual use technologies’ manages to circumvent such rules, covering equipment development for both civilian and military objectives. EU defence companies have benefitted from hundreds of millions in EU research grants[ix] for the research and development of drones, in spite of regulation against using such grants for military purposes and projects. Far from being a victim of the economic crisis, the European arms industry has benefitted from lucrative deals and EU-funded subsidies. Statewatch, a London-based civil liberties watchdog, outlined in a report that over €315 millions of EU research money has been directed in the past years for major European military projects.
The defence industry and major weapons manufactures such as Selex, EADS, Dassault Aviation, Finmeccanica Thales, and Sagem are among the main beneficiaries of such EU funding. With dual-use technologies, the EDA has now access to the EU’s massive Structural Funds (SF) to boost the European defence industry. Reaping the benefits of dual-use technologies and dual-use research and production projects seems to be the way ahead. The EU also needs to put forward targeted regulation for the use of drones in civilian airspace, especially when their previous use was for militarized and repressive purposes, with clear implications for privacy, civil liberties, and human rights. It appears that investment in drone research and technology has become an EU-level, politically-driven policy, without engendering substantive democratic debate on the topic.
Several examples of EU-funded projects for drone development:
In November 2013, defence ministers from a drone-using club of seven[xiv] EU member states (France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Spain, and The Netherlands) tasked the EDA to draft a study on joint production of Medium Altitude Long Endurance (Male) vehicles. Male aims to manufacture drones from 2020 onwards, which can be employed to strike military targets and for the surveillance of migrant boats in the Mediterranean Sea. A select number of EU member states have initiated cooperation frameworks[xv] for the joint development of drones: France and the UK are developing a ‘stealth’ drone named Telemos to fly in 2018; France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, and Sweden are working on a ‘euro-Ucav’ or unmanned combat air vehicle, the nEUROn[xvi].
An EDA meeting of eight countries back in November 2013 (Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, plus the US and Israel) advanced the scheme, ‘Joint Investment Programme on RPAS for Air Traffic Insertion’[xvii], to enable drones to fly alongside civilian planes. The European Commission in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries and the Austrian Diamond Airborne Sensing is also developing drones to be employed for civilian purposes and the surveillance of the EU civilian airspace. Hybrid aerial surveillance drones[xviii] for maritime surveillance and for combating illegal migration are being considered by FRONTEX, the EU border agency, due to the fact that they circumvent the EU laws prohibiting unmanned drones from flying in civilian airspace.
All of the above-mentioned examples are indicative of a pan-European hybrid drone development trend, favouring large security and defence companies and a club of select and powerful EU member states. Issues pertaining to democratic accountability and oversight come up in the discussion, especially when the European Parliament is not involved in the debate and the EU institutions are under lobbying pressure by the European defence industry to put forward favourable policy initiatives. The main issue is that the agenda seems to be set by the defence industry and big drone manufacturers. Secondly, there is increased concern that decisions are being taken at the EU level in the absence of genuine democratic control over the EU institutions and agencies responsible with drones development and their impact upon civil liberties.
Further reflection about irresponsible innovation and research as regards the development of hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is long overdue at the EU level – a proper debate should address checks and balances mechanisms in this evolving policy realm and for the defence industry. The 86-page Statewatch study, Eurodrones Inc[xix], from February 2014 concludes that the EU ‘has substituted the democratic process for a technocratic one’, the watchdog warning that the potential of drones for social control in Europe needs more democratic and public scrutiny. The use of drones in the civilian airspace and for border surveillance purposes requires further public debate in an open and democratic manner and not through convoluted EU backdoors and secretive working groups of a select few from either the EU institutions, national governments, or the defence industry.
Drones have become the iconic weapon of the 21st century, introducing radical changes in high-tech warfare and the business of surveillance and killing. By facing stiff competition from international arms manufactures such as the US and Israel, the EU has got on the drone development bandwagon, hoping that investment schemes in the defence industry will revitalize Europe’s military-industrial complex. The EU’s interest in drones is double-folded: on the one hand, drones could be used as cheap and effective means to ensure internal security through border management, surveillance, and counter-terrorism; and on the other hand they could be employed as a military tool to support the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy missions and operations in theatres of action abroad.
The creation of hybrid drones poses the problem of siphoning off an increased segment of civilian technical resources and skills for military use as well as establishing general legal standards for civilian airspace surveillance or patterns of technology transfer from civilian to military applications or vice-versa. Drone technology is being put forward as the solution to more complex internal and external security challenges, broader cultural and economic arguments being used by proponents of hybrid drone development to justify and legitimise expensive and controversial defence programs. Nevertheless, the undeveloped relationship between security, technology, law, culture, and human action is called into question, especially when considering the potential advantages and drawbacks of weapons technologies and their use in the civilian realm and airspace.
[i] Danuel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, ‘The Implications of Drones on the Just War Tradition’ in Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 03, Fall 2011, 337-358.
[ii] Christian Enemark, Armed Drones and the Ethics of War: Military Virtue in a Post-heroic Age, Routledge, 2013
[iii] Ibidem, 2.
[iv] Mark Coeckelbergh, ‘Drones, information technology, and distance: mapping the moral epistemology of remote fighting’ in Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2013, 87-98.
[vi] Peter M. Asaro, ‘The labour of surveillance and bureaucratized killing: new subjectivities of military drone operators’ in Social Semiotics Special Issue: Charting, Tracking, and Mapping, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2013, 196-224.
[vii] Erich Freiberger, Just War Theory and the Ethics of Drone Warfare, 18 July 2013, E-International Relations, http://www.e-ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethics-of-drone-warfare/ (accessed on 24 June 2014)
[viii] http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/aerospace/uas/ (accessed on 24 June 2014)
[xvi] http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/neuron/ (accessed on 24 June 2014)
[xvii] http://www.eda.europa.eu/info-hub/news/2013/11/19/defence-ministers-commit-to-capability-programmes (accessed on 24 June 2014)
[xix] Statewatch Report, ‘Eurodrones Inc.’, http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/feb/sw-tni-eurodrones-inc-feb-2014.pdf (accessed on 24 June 2014)


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In Montreal, Canada, a domino structure quite literally rose up above the clouds to promote the new Premier Cabin of the international aircraft manufacturer Bombardier.
Sinners Domino Entertainment used a total of 3,000 dominoes to create the structure for the shoot in a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft to demonstrate the stability and tranquillity of this new aeroplane and to show off its new interior with a spacious layout. After being filmed in early May, the commercial recently celebrated its premiere at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.
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4 edition of Missile systems found in the catalog.
|Statement||Philip Birtles & Paul Beaver.|
|Contributions||Beaver, Paul, 1953-|
|LC Classifications||UG1310 .B57 1985|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||128 p. :|
|Number of Pages||128|
|LC Control Number||86191194|
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Description. In his latest book, Missile Design and System Engineering, Eugene Fleeman presents a comprehensive review of the missile design and system engineering process pulling from his decades of experience in the development of missiles and their toward the needs of aerospace engineering students and professors, system analysts and engineers, program managers, and.
Written by an expert with more than 30 years of experience, Modern Missile Guidance contains new analytical results, obtained by the author, that can be used for analysis and design of missile Missile systems book and control systems.
This book covers not just new methods nor is it merely a compilation of older methods, although it includes both. The book discusses, in a logical progression.
Missile Guidance, Second Edition provides a timely survey of missile control and guidance theory, based on extensive work the author has done using the Lyapunov approach. This new edition also presents the Lyapunov-Bellman approach for choosing optimal parameters of the guidance laws, and direct and inverse optimal problems are considered.
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The MIM Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
The AN/MPQ at the heart of the system is known as the "Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target" which is a. Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a business of the newly formed Raytheon Technologies, produces missile defense systems, precision weapons and related technologies, is focused on the end-to-end threat solution, offering unprecedented value.
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Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering fills a need for those seeking insight into the design procedures of the air and missile defense system engineering process. Specifically aimed at policy planners, engineers, researchers, and consultants, it presents a balanced approach to negating a target in both natural and electronic attack environmen.
In the Army signed a contract to upgrade all Rapier systems to an enhanced version. A Mark 2 missile variant commenced development in culminating in a complete re-design which entered service in the mids.
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Lance missile, U.S.-made mobile short-range ballistic missile, capable of carrying either a conventional or a nuclear warhead, that was developed during the s and fielded by the U.S.
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The cocky, big-eared rodent is a secret agent for the Galactic Security Agency (GSA) who prefers to do things the quick and messy way. This book is an excellent graphical reference to U.S. missile systems. While lacking in technical detail that could only be found in Top Secret documents or the weapons system techincal orders, this book has the right tone to show how the weapons worked, and how they fit into U.S.
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Drones are one of the hottest issues that are going to influence the world in a major way in the coming years. The best facet of drones is that jobs will be generated by them for thousands of folks because as the use of drones grow, so will the importance of trained unmanned drone pilots increase dramatically.
The armed forces have been using drones for decades now, and there's a deficiency of drone pilots that are educated, and they've been counting to the firms that furnish these trained aviators on the outsourcing of the works.
These pilots aren't carrying any work on their own, they merely follow the purchases and are always tracked out. These pilots are civilians who are taking the orders of the authorities who do not have the expertise of drones that are flying out. kameradrohnekaufen.com got this problem straight in their article. This agreement is here to stay for a while until soldiers who are experts in drones are recruited by the military and it is working well for the armed forces. At the moment the military has just over 1300 UAV's in use but the investigation is about, as this is insufficient to fill the need.
Where there is a need for the UAV or drone pilots, it's not only the armed services. When the FAA releases regulations and principles affecting drones most of the companies will blatantly attempt to cut off the amount of staff-they presently have and replace them with robotic systems like drones. This will enhance not just the efficacy of the merchandise delivery but also improve the economies of the business.
There are going to be over 7000 firms which will be flying drones whenever FAA arrives with regulations and its new rules. This will not consider the time and will happen soon for there will tremendous need for pilots who understand how to fly drones (or swim them, if you will: 'onderwater drone kopen')
Because every subject is finding a use for drones, this is just the beginning, The major use of drones can also be going to be witnessed in the sector where drones will be utilised for filming the sporting events. This field will majorly outsource the work because it is not just the popular channels like ESPN that need to cover the events but furthermore the teams which will need certainly to film their practice periods to determine the weaknesses of the group that can be worked upon and the robust factors.
It is called that employments open up once drones are utilised on a business foundation. The staffing and outsourcing will take a large move because of this new technology and the kids who are seen as wasting their time enjoying video games may become the most sought away folks in the industry.


Risk of Growler Jet Accidents
Risk of Accidents
- The Growler’s F-18 airframe is one of the most accident-prone military airframes in existence. Between 1980 and 2014, the F18 sustained 39 accidents; 22 crashes of the EA-18G and F/A-18 E, F have occurred since 2000. The F-18 Super Hornet platform has a mishap rate well above the average of all military aircraft, including two serious mishaps involving EA-18G Growlers, since December of 2016.
Given this history, increased flights would endanger schools, hospitals, homes, parks/playfields, and highways located near the runway. Parts of state Route 20, the only north-south highway on Whidbey Island, lie beneath the Growler’s highest-risk crash zone. Coupeville’s elementary, middle, and high schools are all located within four miles of the runway. Hospitals and fire stations are also close by, as are businesses and residences.
- To provide acceptable civilian safeguards and livability, the Navy prefers at least 2,000 unsettled acres to conduct a training program of this kind. Yet, repeatedly, the Navy has granted itself waivers on Whidbey, and local policymakers have looked the other way. Today, there are training missions over 664 acres of populated land on Whidbey Island. Thus, the Navy is in violation of its own safety standards, thereby putting islanders at risk.
- The runway itself is unsafe. The 5,400-foot strip, built prior to 1943 to accommodate aircraft built in the 1940s, is nearly 3,500 feet too short for Growler jet “touch and go” operations, which require 8,800 feet. The runway cannot be extended. For 32 years, the runway has failed to meet Navy runway safety standards. Thus, the Navy is putting its own pilots in danger by asking them to train on an inadequate runway.
- Our pilots should have the best possible training, and the Navy should provide a training site that provides realistic carrier landing and takeoff conditions in a way that does not needlessly endanger pilots or civilians.
- A single Growler costs $85-100 million. These very expensive weapons, paid for by taxpayers, should be deployed in an area equipped to handle their needs. At present, the Outlying Runway at Coupeville cannot do that.


It really never ends. It’s actually become quite comical. The wrath of QANTAS Beijing is still upon us. One of the changes we made was adding return flights to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe from Johannesburg. Again, after much confusion, we believed that these flights were confirmed.
Much to our delight and surprise, we were upgraded to Business Class on the flight to VF, but we had less luck on the return flight to Jo-burg. In fact, we arrived at the airport only to learn that we were not booked on the flight at all. This isn’t good when the flight is fully booked for the next week. I guess our paper tickets were for some mystery flight. We’re still not clear. After some insisting and digging in our heels, we made our way onto the flight without a seat to spare. It really does help to have a paper ticket to wave in front of their faces. It seems to add just a little more legitimacy.
We suspect that we may not have been on the flight to VF, but that the airport staff passed the buck until we got to the gate and they realized that there were already people in our seats so they just quickly bumped us to solve the problem. That’s my kind of solution!
So now we’ll be calling ahead for every flight just to make sure (1) there is a flight and (2) that we’re on it. Sometimes those basic details are really important.


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How FT-IR helps to understand data from a deep space mission
Many of you may remember the exciting moment almost 20 years ago, when NASA launched MESSENGER (the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) to study characteristics and environment (mainly chemical composition) of Mercury from orbit, the smallest and least explored planet in our solar system. MESSENGER has many science instruments mounted, such as MASCS, consisting of a UV/VIS and a VIS/IR spectrometer, optimized to observe weak atmospheric emissions and surface reflectance in the 0.3-1.45 µm band (33,000 – 6,900 cm-1).
MESSENGER’s XRD data indicated a volcanic surface with high abundances of Mg and Ca (presumably as Sulfides). Due to Mercury’s high dayside temperatures, there is only limited spectral reflectance data of sulfides available (from the night side). To get a better idea what to expect, the Planetary Emissivity Laboratory (PEL), a special sub-group of the Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory (PSL) of the DLR in Berlin, Germany, experimentally created spectral reflectance data in VIS and NIR regions of fresh and heated samples of MnS, CaS and MgS. These spectra have been used for interpretation of spectra from the MESSENGER mission . The predicted spectral features helped locating sulfide deposits on Mercury and identifying the material in which the characteristic Mercury hollows form.
The spectral reflectance data in PSL has been obtained using a high-end Bruker VERTEX 80v vacuum FT-IR spectrometer, allowing to measure emissivity, bidirectional reflectance and transmittance of various types of planetary materials over a wide spectral range from UV to FIR (50,000 cm-1 to 5 cm-1), at high temperatures, and – very important – under vacuum. In other words, VERTEX 80v enables to measure the analogue samples by mimicking the natural Mercury environment. With VERTEX 80v’s fully evacuated optics bench, resulting spectra will be free from lab air disturbances. Dedicated sample holders and cells allow for reflectance under a broad angle range, for accurate transmittance via collimated beam or, if required, also for analysis in air or inert gas atmosphere.
In 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) started the BepiColombo mission (named after Italian mathematician and engineer Prof. Giuseppe Bepi Colombo) to Mercury to study its composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history. After a seven-year journey, it will arrive in late 2025 to gather data during its one-year nominal mission. MERTIS (MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer) mounted on BepiColombo is an imaging spectrometer and will obtain hyper-spectral data in the mid IR range 7-14 µm (1,400 – 700 cm-1) to determine the mineralogical composition of Mercury’s surface. The interpretation of these emissivity spectra requires a wide database of analogue materials. PEL has been collecting emissivity data of powdered and bulk materials, at typical Mercury temperatures, again using the Bruker VERTEX 80v vacuum FTIR spectrometer . We are all looking forward to great discoveries BepiColombo will send home.
Now, Europlanet, the European platform for planetary science, has launched Europlanet 2024 RI, which will provide open access to the world’s largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities. Since DLR’s ability to obtain spectra under extreme conditions using Bruker VERTEX 80v and numerous tailor-made sampling accessories, is globally unique, it plays a central role in this project and has attracted many scientific visitors (e.g. from NASA) . Within Europlanet 2024 RI, DLR will expand its capabilities for low temperature (cryogenic) FT-IR spectroscopy under vacuum to support the coming ESA mission JUICE, which will visit the Jovian system of Jupiter (icy moons). Bruker is proud of contributing to all these exciting deep space missions also in the future.


Incorporating the right combination of metal alloys is crucial to producing quality MIM parts. So too is ensuring that the proper ratio of binding agent to metal powder is used.
PTI has been able to overcome this challenge by working with Latitude Manufacturing Technologies’ agar binder system. It eliminates the need to remove the binder before sintering, which had been a major hurdle for producing larger MIM parts.
High-strength and light weight
Aircraft engines and their components require components that can withstand extreme temperatures, pressures, and corrosive environments. Metal Injection Molding (MIM) is an ideal production method for producing these components, because it can accommodate the use of high-performance alloys like Inconel and Hastelloy that offer strength, corrosion resistance, and high tensile and compressive properties.
MIM parts can also be produced with complex shapes and geometries, allowing designers to create intricate designs that would not be possible with other fabrication methods. For example, MIM parts can include threads and holes that can be integrated directly into the park design, reducing the need for post-processing.
MIM parts are also characterized by superior mechanical properties, including ductility and fatigue resistance. These characteristics can be further enhanced by using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP), which eliminates pores and other defects to enhance the material performance of the part. In addition, dimensional inspection is performed on MIM parts to verify that they meet the specified tolerances.
Complex shapes and geometries
MIM technology is capable of producing parts with complex geometries and tight tolerances that are difficult or impossible to produce using other methods. This makes it ideal for a range of aerospace applications that require precise shapes and dimensions.
MIM can produce parts in a variety of metals, including titanium alloys, nickel-based superalloys, and low-alloy steels. These materials offer excellent mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and thermal stability at high temperatures. This enables them to be used in jet and gas turbine engines to support their performance and efficiency.
MIM is a cost-effective manufacturing process for parts that are larger than what can be produced by injection molding, but smaller than what can be fabricated by other production processes like casting and machining. It also enables designers to combine multiple components into a single part, eliminating screws and adhesive bonding, and reducing both weight and assembly costs. Dimensional inspection, using coordinate measuring machines (CMM) and optical comparators, is essential for ensuring that MIM parts meet specified tolerances.
MIM allows manufacturers to use a variety of metals. Iron-based alloys such as stainless steels, tool steels, and iron-nickel magnetic alloys like Kovar and Invar work well with MIM, as do hard metal blends like cemented carbides and cermets, and refractory metals like tungsten. Using the right material and implementing effective inspection techniques, MIM parts can achieve tight tolerances.
PTI is working to offer a wider choice of metal powders and alloys for MIM, as well as improved debinding methods for larger, thick-sectioned components. Currently, removing the binder from large green parts can be time-consuming and expensive, but PTI’s new agar binder is based on water and a gelatin-like seaweed-derived material that is easily evaporated.
Aircraft designers are increasingly specifying MIM for a wide range of key components such as bushings, fasteners, wing flap screw seals, and seat belt adjustment levers. By eliminating machining and replacing forgings, MIM can significantly reduce costs while delivering superior strength and durability.
MIM Parts for Aerospace: Enhanced Performance in Challenging Environments
Titanium and titanium alloys are used in aerospace components to provide high strength-to-weight ratios, corrosion resistance, biocompatibility, and other properties. These materials can withstand the extreme temperatures, pressures, and corrosive environments found in jet and gas turbine engines.
The initial mold used in the MIM process is critical to producing accurate parts. Any deviations in the cavity’s geometry will directly impact dimensions, surface finish, and material properties of the final component.
Feedstock rheology is also crucial in MIM technology. The viscosity of the powder/binder mixture must be consistent during injection to ensure that it flows smoothly into the die cavities and avoids segregation. In addition, the particle size distribution of the metal powders must be tightly controlled so that they pack more densely, resulting in higher density parts. Finally, shrinkage is also important to consider as it will affect the dimensions of the ‘green’ compacts after the molding and sintering process.


CCAD has become an asset in Army readiness since helicopters first took center stage of combat operations during the Vietnam War. The Depot has proven its mettle in every military operation and mission it's been called to serve. CCAD will continue to focus on the success of the mission and support strategic readiness of the Army with speed, accuracy, and quality.
CCAD remains a tenant organization on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi with more than 158 acres and 2.2 million square feet of industrial space. Offering virtually year-round ideal weather for flight testing, CCAD is a facility for rotary wing repair. With a workforce of more than 3,100 and annual revenue of more than $800M, CCAD is a major employer and economic engine for the South Texas region.
- Premier helicopter repair facility in the world.
- Largest industrial employer and economic engine in South Texas.
- Profit and loss organization operated with robust Lean Six Sigma Programs.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - First US Army Depot to automate a shop floor.
- Highly skilled, highly trained workforce.
- Return crash damage aircraft to fully mission capable flyable status.
- Repair unserviceable turbine engines to like new condition.
- Additive manufacturing and new technologies, including Hot and Cold Metal Spray.
- Six high bay paint booths, supporting all US Army helicopters and tri-service work.
- Largest electroplating facility in South Texas.
- Automatic 5 axis machining, shot peening, and advanced welding systems.
- Flexible Smart Transmission Test System, capable of testing any gearbox.
- Advanced composites.
- AS9110 certified facility for aerospace industry maintenance repair and overhaul.


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Engineers at BAE Systems have begun to use Panasonic TOUGHBOOK to offer a quicker, smarter and more intuitive way of servicing Typhoon jets, the world’s leading combat aircraft.
The engineers at its Lancashire base are using the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK G1 to complement the aircrafts' onboard health management systems. Before and after every sortie, the aircraft performs its own 'health check' and presents a series of findings onto the Maintenance Data Panel, located on the side of the aircraft. Engineers analyse this information and conduct a series of checks, in parallel with the pilot's pre-flight cockpit checks, to ensure the aircraft is safe and fit for flight.
Panasonic Business and Cubic Defence UK are changing the face of defence training for the British Army by merging virtual reality with live training exercises in a Synthetic Wrap technology world-first


Episode 19: Prof. Seetha Raghavan
Seetha Raghavan is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering with joint appointments in Material Science at the College of Optics and Lasers, at the University of Central Florida. Seetha can be found at @raghavan_seetha, and in this episode she talks to us about her fascination for aerospace engineering, researching new materials for aircrafts, and guiding students on their scientific path.
Tune into this episode of Science Off Camera to hear all about aerospace engineering, materials research and education!
What was exciting to me is that aerospace engineering is such a complex system that involves so many different fields, just to make one thing happen.
Prof. Raghavan has seven years of experience in the aerospace industry where she was a senior engineer involved in aircraft structural analysis, aircraft maintenance, repair, and modifications, as well as research and development in nondestructive structural testing.
As a UCF faculty member since 2008, Prof. Raghavan works with her students to engineer materials as sensors to monitor structural integrity and capture the mechanics of high-temperature materials for jet engine turbine blades, high speed, and re-entry vehicles. She develops innovative characterization techniques that lead to experimental discoveries — from the fundamentals of load transfer with nanoparticle reinforcements to “seeing” strains evolve in high temperature coatings and materials under extreme operating conditions — the outcomes will engineer materials and structures that lead to game-changing technology in aeronautics and space.
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Civilian Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for remote sensing, surveillance, and aerial imagery.
Uncrewed aircraft can provide critical information that piloted aircraft currently provide, related to forest fire management, surveillance, insect detection, vegetation control, and other services. The uncrewed aircraft in the lab can be used to automate the tasks for natural resource management. The technologies will save time, money, and most importantly lives, because human operators will not have to stay in harm's way if we use autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and robots for dangerous tasks.
Remote sensing, autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV), UAV control, data collection, image processing, natural resource management, aerial imagery
- Aerospace and satellites
- Defence and security industries
- Environmental technologies and related services
- Forestry and forest-based industries
Specialized labs and equipment
Autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle
The equipment includes a fixed-wing Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV), autopilot, onboard computer, and ground control station with payload sensors such as cameras and navigation sensors. The civilian UAV and payload sensors can be used for automated missions for various applications. The fixed-wing UAV with onboard sensors can be used to collect aerial images. The software can be used to automatically process the data. Collected forestry data are transmitted and processed on the ground control station. The ground crew can conduct missions using the ground control station.
Private and public sector research partners
- Forest Protection Limited
- Moncton Flight College
- New Brunswick Aerospace and Defence Association
- Defence Research and Development CORA
- ING Robotic Aviation
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The world ‘s richest man Jeff Bezos of e-commerce giant Amazon will on Tuesday 20 July 2021 travel to space on his company-Blue Origin’s first passenger flight.
Bezos will be joined by his brother, Mark, and 2 others, in a suborbital flight, traveling to an altitude of more than 340,000 feet.
“Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend,” Bezos wrote in an Instagram post last month.
The flight will take off from the company’s Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), in a milestone mission for the space tourism company. Onthe crew will be :
Jeff Bezos, 57, who founded Blue Origin in 2000 and made billions as the founder of Amazon.com
Mark Bezos, 53, the younger brother of Bezos and a millionaire in his own right. He is a former ad executive and is on the leadership council of the non-profit Robin Hood, which fights poverty
Wally Funk 82, a pioneering female aviator who was one of the famed Mercury 13, women tested by NASA as potential astronauts during the early days of the U.S. space program.
Oliver Daemon 18, a physics student who plans to study at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.


For years, NK’s test launch of its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) has always been a threat to the US and its allies. This is because every successful ICBM launch gives NK a step forward to its road to supremacy. Although the US has all the means of intercepting any ICBM that can threaten its territory, this can cause uneasiness and worries amongst its citizens. Moreover, this can cause tension which may result to possible missile warfare. With a clearly-defined diplomatic blueprint on the table, the US and NK can hopefully get past their political differences.


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On the first week of August, our Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohammad announced that Malaysia is going to send its astronaut to space through Russian space program most probably in 2005. This announcement has impressed many Malaysians. A local telecommunication company and a TV channel were so impressed that they produce an advertisement on the particular channel showing Malaysian astronaut on the surface of the moon.
Actually not many Malaysians realize that sending astronaut through Russian space program is quite ordinary as long as the astronaut is a citizen of a friendly country to Russia. Currently, Malaysia has a friendly relationship with Russia in terms of economic, diplomatic and cultural relationship. Malaysia has been a loyal customer of the Russian military aerospace industry when our country bought MiG-29s and is buying other combat aircraft from them.
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The candidate from Vietnam, Pham Tuan became the first Asian astronaut, when he was selected as the guest cosmonaut in Soyuz 37 space mission on July 1980. Pham Tuan has spent 8 days with Russian cosmonaut, Viktor Gorbhato in the mission. He has also perform activities with 2 other Russian cosmonauts aboard space station Salyut on the same mission.
The candidate from Mongolia, Jugderdemidyn Gurragcha was selected as the guest cosmonaut in Soyuz 39 space mission in March 1981. The Mongolian has spent 8 days with Russian cosmonaut, Vladimir Dzharibekov in the mission and 7 days with 2 other Russian cosmonauts aboard space station Salyut.
The candidate from India, Rakesh Sharma became the guest cosmonaut in the Soyuz T-11 space mission on April 1984, and accompanied Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Malyshev and Gennady Strekalov. Rakesh also spent 1 week aboard space station Salyut with 2 other Russian cosmonauts.
Vietnam, Mongolia and India are among the Asian countries, which are pioneering the sending of astronaut to space. There are other Asian countries, which have also sent their astronauts to space either through the Russian space program or United States space program. The American or NASA space program has also sent many Asians to space as astronauts.
Among the earliest Asian astronaut sent to space by NASA through the space shuttle mission is a royal prince of Saudi Arabia, Sultan Al-Saud. He is the first Arab and Muslim astronaut.
Sultan Al-Saud was launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on June 17, 1985, the last date of Ramadhan of that year. The prince has conducted a scientific experiment designed by the Saudi Arabia University of Petroleum & Mineral aboard the space shuttle.
An Indonesian almost became the first Malay astronaut through a NASA space program. A woman scientist of Indonesian citizen, Sudarmono Pratiwi was selected as mission specialist astronaut aboard a space shuttle mission scheduled for launch in June 1986. However the mission was cancelled due to the space shuttle Challenger accident which has killed all its astronauts on January of the same year.
On October this year, China will send its astronaut via its own space mission using its own launch vehicle. If China succeed, it will become the first Asian country, which sent its astronaut with its own launch vehicle, and the 3rd country in the world, which has the capability to send astronaut to space.
The Malaysian government should consider several critical matters. Since Russia no longer has its own space station in orbit, its cosmonaut capsule has to dock at International Space Station. Will other parties, which administer the space station, especially NASA allow Malaysian guest cosmonaut aboard the space station?
If Malaysian guest cosmonaut is allowed aboard the space station, what activity will he/she do there. Can he/she conduct a scientific experiment?
Malaysia can only really benefit from the program if the Malaysian cosmonaut can be allowed to conduct a scientific experiment aboard the space station, since the Vietnamese, Mongolian and Indian guest cosmonauts did conduct scientific experiments for their countries aboard the space station Salyut.
So, besides sending an astronaut, Malaysia should also consider sending an experiment to space. The experiment actually can be more prestigious than the astronaut, if it is carefully designed. Therefore, Malaysian government scientific agencies and universities should start thinking about the experiment.
After the Malaysian astronaut return safely to Earth, he must perform a very special activity. He must come back to Malaysia and go to all corners of the country especially to villages to meet the youths and teenagers to tell them about his journey in order to motivate them. Then the astronaut must visits schools, colleges and universities to talk to the students. The astronaut must be an example of a successful and useful citizen of Malaysia. Lets hope that he does not conduct his post-space activities via the internet only.
Today, there are already many astronauts from Asian countries and other countries other than Russia and United States. The development of space tourism has also contributed to this.
The first African astronaut, Mark Shuttleworth is a space tourist. He spent his holiday aboard International Space Station for 8 days in July 2002 via the Russian Soyuz space mission. He also conducted a scientific experiment on AIDS aboard the space station.
Up to date, there are hundreds of astronauts, and about 20% of them are not Russian or American. By 2005, the number will be a lot greater since there may be passenger spacecraft serving space tourism business.
By that time, there are spacecraft that can take passengers to sub-orbital space everyday because the ticket fees for sub-orbital flight can be as low as RM 100 000.00 per person per flight. Therefore there will be so many astronauts by 2005, the year Malaysia plan to send its first astronaut to space. Some of the space tourists/astronauts may be Malaysians.
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Analytical consideration of optical imaging sensor systems as part of the AsteroidFinder mission
- Brand: Krutz, Dr. Ulrike
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- SKU: 9783941274785
Since the beginning of space travel, an enormous amount of man-made garbage has accumulated in space, so-called space debris. This scrap poses an ever-increasing threat to satellites and spacecraft. Even centimeter-sized particles can develop destructive force in a collision with a satellite. The space-based detection of space debris was defined...
Since the beginning of space travel, an enormous amount of man-made garbage has accumulated in space, so-called space debris. This scrap poses an ever-increasing threat to satellites and spacecraft. Even centimeter-sized particles can develop destructive force in a collision with a satellite. The space-based detection of space debris was defined as the secondary objective of DLR's astronomical mission AsteroidFinder, the primary objective of which is to detect near-Earth asteroids. The space-based observation has the advantage that no atmosphere can interfere with the detection of the particles. It is therefore possible to record those particles that cannot be detected by the ground-based observation systems. The present work analyzes the satellite camera of the AsteroidFinder mission with regard to its suitability for space-based detection of space debris. The analysis is carried out from both a radiometric and statistical point of view and takes into account all diffraction impairments caused by the optics. Although the mission's optical imaging sensor system is not tailored to space debris detection, the results show that space-based detection of space debris is not only possible, but also worth using the camera for this purpose.
- Title: Analytical consideration of optical imaging sensor systems
- Subtitles: as part of the AsteroidFinder mission
- Author: Dr. Ulrike Krutz
- Edition: 1st edition
- Published: 1st edition 06/17/2011
- Department: Physics & Astronomy
- Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
- Product type: Dissertation
- Language: German
- Binding: Softcover (paperback)
- Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
- Scope: 186 pages
- Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
- Keywords: imaging sensor systems, asteroids, AsteroidFinder mission, DLR, spacecraft, satellites, satellite camera, sensor systems, space travel, space debris
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