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Wednesday’s CSExtra features the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the globe. New findings from NASA’s NEOWISE mission suggest the solar system is more crowded than previously thought. The White House appears to favor a European space code of conduct. Russia investigates the failed launch of a military satellite. A Las Vegas enterprise looks to Florida for the launchings of its inflatable space stations. The eighth anniversary of the shuttle Columbia tragedy finds policy makers still struggling to reach a consensus on the future of human space exploration.
1. From Space.com: NASA releases findings from the NEOWISE mission, a follow on to an all sky survey carried out last year by the agency ‘s Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer, a precursor to the James Webb Space Telescope mission. The latest survey reveals 20 new comets, more than 33,000 asteroids, and 134 other near-Earth objects in the solar system.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/10735-asteroid-survey-space-rocks-comets.html
2. From Spacepolitics.com: The Obama Administration appears to be moving toward a European inspired code of conduct for space operations. The code addresses the hazards of pace debris and other threats to operating satellites.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/01/moving-towards-a-code-of-conduct/
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: An experimental Russian military satellite, launched Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, is stranded in a low altitude orbit by an apparent second stage malfunction. The mishap follows the failed launch of three GLONASS-M satellites in December.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/01rockot/
4. From Florida Today: Robert Bigelow, head of Bigelow Aerospace, will meet with Florida officials on plans to launch the company’s inflatable space stations from Cape Canaveral, Fla., using United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets. The launchings, which could begin in 2014, could bring jobs to a region of Florida facing economic difficulties related to the retirement of NASA’s shuttle program.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110202/BUSINESS/102020329/1006/NEWS01/Space+chief+wants+to+use+Canaveral+for+launches
5. From Spacepolicyonline.com: In a commentary on the eighth anniversary of the shuttle Columbia tragedy, SPO editor Marcia Smith notes that the nation’s policy makers have so far failed to reach a consensus on the future of its human spaceflight program. A clear policy matched with sufficient funding is an essential part of the recovery from the tragedy, according to those who investigated the Feb. 1, 2003 loss that claimed seven lives.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1387:eight-years-after-columbia-nation-still-lacks-consensus-on-the-vision-for-human-spaceflight-a-spacepolicyonlinecom-commentary&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
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