Tag: Ball Aerospace

NASA’s Green Propellant Mission Passes Key Milestone
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NASA’s Green Propellant Mission Passes Key Milestone

NASA’s Green Propellant Green Propulsion Infusion Mission (GPIM) has passed a critical flight readiness milestone in anticipation of launch in early 2017, completing functional and equipment testing of its systems and software. The mission which will provide on-orbit demonstration of a new, less toxic “green” propellant will be tested aboard a Ball Aerospace Configurable Platform 100 satellite, […]

Posted in: Sierra Nevada Corporation, Spacecraft Development
Stars Fell on Alabama
By 2012.11.01 2 Comments Read More →

Stars Fell on Alabama

Source : Al.com Huntsville and north Alabama have always played a key role in sending people and machines into space, and apparently space is trying to return the favor.  On the evening of October 30th, at 5:30 PM, a sonic boom and fireball northwest of Cullman, Al signalled the arrival of meteor substantial enough to be tracked by doppler radar.  Now a team of 6 […]

Posted in: Asteroids, Crowdsourcing Space Exploration
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