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... ). NASA, the Japanese space agency JAXA, and ESA all have active research and development programs looking at hypersonic craft. There are also commercial development programs by companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, AirBus ... Boeing, Lock-heed Martin, United Launch Services, Arianespace, Long March, JAXA, and ISRO are adjusting their development strategies to react to new commercial systems. A variety of companies are seeking to develop ...

... the cosmonaut crew on board the Mir. They returned the altered signals after they had interacted with various devices on board. ref 110 The West cigarette company commissioned German artist Andora to paint the ... note 71 Lucie Armitt, ''Contemporary women’s fiction and the fantastic'' . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000; Marleen S. Barr. ''Feminist fabulation: Space/ postmodern ...

... together commercial off the shelf (COTS) components to design and build small satellites. By 1985 it was decided to create a spin-out company known as SSTL led by Sir Martin Sweeting. Today it is not only a commercial entity separate from the University but, in fact, is now owned by the Air Bus ... network. OneWeb is unusual in many ways, including the fact that the very companies manufacturing the satellites and those providing the launch services are also substantial investors. The initial constellation is envisioned as being made up ...

... and strategic alliances. In the U.S.A., out of the twenty major space companies in existence during the 1980s, only three ‘prime’ ones were left by 1997 (Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman). A similar consolidation took place in Europe in the 1990s, leading to the creation ...

... remained at the head of the early aviation companies of their own founding. He formed The De Havilland Aircraft Company Limited after the closing down of The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited, of which he had been the chief designer ... members of the company, headed the working team that directed the organisation through the years of peace and conflict in which this expansion came about. 1n the fortieth year of the enterprise, the year which marked the half-century ...

... the Satellite Industry Association). The satellite industry involves not only the satellites but also the launchers that put them into orbit, the ground tracking antennas, telemetry and control systems that keep the satellites operating, and the insurance companies ... was produced in the 1930s. The Eastman Kodak Company developed the first commercial infrared film in 1938, which expanded our ability to see beyond the visible part of the spectrum for the first time. In the Second World ...

... so his departure was expected to clear the way for a new start at the troubled company; particularly since the government in Ottawa was still faced with the same unresolved problem that it had faced ... parent company's own brand-new experimental Hawker 1127. On July 3rd the interested parties were told that the government had chosen the Lockheed deal despite not having conducted a single test flight of the ...

... to use other parts for its new vehicles. One of the solid rocket boosters of the Shuttle system, for example, may become the main part of a new system. NASA may create a ... choose a company to do this new service in 2006, and the winning company likely will use a new rocket that it has created. The new rocket may be launched from the ground like the Space ... provided by David Gump & Gary Hudson Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

... , developed, and exploited. The practice of space law in the 21st Century will involve innovative legal variations of some of the principles, good and bad, established for and by the charter companies and used to open up remote areas of Earth to commercial development. Finally, some of the legal regimes ripe ...

... -based Scaled Composites, and more than $25 million from software billionaire Paul Allen, called the Spaceship Company, have been formed by Rutan's team and British tycoon Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic ... , a company called Space Adventures, based in Arlington, Virginia, is already planning to offer commercial trips to orbit the moon for only $100 million per passenger. In spite of the launch of the first ...

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