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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space related activities from around the globe. Do the U. S. and China have a common future in space? A lawmaker asks a Congressional watchdog to examine NASA’s Space Launch System work agreements. NASA identifies the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite’s re-entry point. Ed Weiler, NASA’s associate administrator for science, retires. Two astronauts depart NASA. The U. S. launches a military communications satellite. The final shuttle crew demonstrated a new water recycling technique. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center awards architecture and engineering contracts for facility upgrades. Scientists find evidence that the solar system lost an early large planet. A NASA scientist earns presidential recognition.
1. From Space.com: Are the United States and China rivals in space or partners in waiting? The steering currents make it difficult to forecast. Experts say there are advantages and disadvantages to each course.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/13100-china-space-program-nasa-space-race.html
2. From Spacepolitics.com: California Congressman Tom McClintock asks the General Accounting Office to examine NASA’s Space Launch System contract decision. NASA, with direction from Congress, amended work on the cancelled Constellation program to carry out the SLS initiative and the companion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/09/27/congressman-files-gao-complaint-about-sls-plans/
3. From Spacepolicyonline.com: NASA points to the region of the Earth where the 20-year-old Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite re-entered over the weekend. It was near the Christmas Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1910:found-nasa-specifies-when-and-where-uars-reentered&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
4. From Space News: NASA’s associate administrator for science, Ed Weiler, announces his retirement, after 32 years with the agency. Weiler joined NASA as the chief scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/110927nasa-science-chief-stepping-down.html
A. From Collectspace.com: NASA astronauts Charlie Hobaugh and Dr. Robert Satcher depart the space agency.
For Hobaugh: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/001415.html
For Satcher: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/001405.html.
5. From Space News: The U. S. Air Force launches an experimental Navy communications satellite from Alaska.
http://www.spacenews.com/launch/110927-tacsat4-launched-minotaur.html
6. From the Huntsville Times: NASA’s final shuttle mission in July demonstrated a technique for using forward osmosis, a biological process, to reclaim drinking water in space. The process uses a permeable membrane that screens our impurities in the water. Forward osmosis could be used to recycle water in space suits or possibly aboard spacecraft on deep space missions.
http://www.al.com/42/index.ssf/2011/09/qinetiq_forward_osmosis_experi.html
7. From Florida Today: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center awards architecture and engineering contracts for upgrades to the facilities at the Florida launch complex.
http://space.flatoday.net/2011/09/nasa-awards-design-contracts-at-ksc.html
8. From Discovery.com: Colorado researchers examine evidence that a large planet was ejected from our solar system four billion years ago. This planet was a companion to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
http://news.discovery.com/space/was-a-giant-planet-ejected-from-the-solar-system.html
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