Jane Edwards

Poland has released a document that provides information on the country’s initial strategy to develop the space industry and related programs, Space News reported Wednesday. Jaroslaw Adamowski writes the space strategy aims to increase the Polish government’s spending on the space sector, develop the country’s first satellite and create a new economic model that would depend on […] More

Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, that will serve as one of the aerospace company’s five global information technology service centers, News is my Business reported Wednesday. The government of Puerto Rico expects Lockheed’s expansion efforts through the new facility to help create 120 new jobs, according to the report. […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with CoGen to build a U.K. facility designed to convert waste into renewable energy. Lockheed will oversee engineering, procurement, construction and manufacturing work on the bioenergy plant in Cardiff, Wales, and CoGen will serve as the developer and owner of the project under the teaming agreement, Lockheed said Tuesday. Frank Armijo, […] More

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has discussed two initiatives the space agency has launched in an effort to establish the foundation for NASA’s Journey to Mars project and other deep space missions. Bolden wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that NASA established partnerships with private companies to advance research projects in propulsion, habitation systems and […] More

NASA has moved from Oct. 13 to Oct. 16 the launch of an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft due to tropical storm Nicole. Cygnus is initially scheduled to launch Thursday aboard Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket to deliver approximately 5,100 pounds of crew supplies and research equipment to the International Space Station under the company’s Commercial […] More