http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ Colorado Space Coalition News en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:33:11 GMT Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:33:11 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/rss/ Imulus Central 2.0 http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DigitalGlobe-CitySphere.html Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe today released Citysphere 2.0, an enhanced version of its extensive library of on-demand digital satellite imagery of the most populated global cities. CitySphere 2.0 features the addition of dozens of never-before-available views of global cosmopolitan cities... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DigitalGlobe-CitySphere.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SpaceFoundation-classes.html The Space Foundation recently completed the first two courses in the 2008 Colorado Springs Space Discovery Institute series. "Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space: Living Aboard the International Space Station" demonstrated an effective way for PreK - 12th grade educators to inspire their stu... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SpaceFoundation-classes.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-sustainability.html Ball Corporation issued the company's first sustainability report on June 30. The 42-page report, titled Toward a Sustainable Future, identifies Ball's sustainability successes, goals and related data about the company's operations. Our prosperity is clearly linked to the prosperity and success of ... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-sustainability.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MichaelGass-P20.html Gov. Bill Ritter announced June 30 that he has named United Launch Alliance President and CEO Michael Gass to serve as a co-chair of the Governor’s P-20 Education Coordinating Council. Gass replaces Bruce Benson, who stepped down as one of three co-chairs earlier this year to become president of th... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MichaelGass-P20.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-payloads.html A NASA sounding rocket launching from Virginia on June 27 will carry one University of Colorado at Boulder student payload to measure greenhouse gases and 19 other payloads developed by teams from around the nation from kits produced by CU-Boulder students. The CU-Boulder payload, developed by a te... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-payloads.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ULA-Jason.html A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket successfully launched the Jason-2 satellite in support of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason-2) at 12:46 a.m. PDT, June 20. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 2, it marked the second NASA mission launched on a Delta II by ULA this... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ULA-Jason.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/weatherradar.html Colorado State University this spring installed a unique antenna on one of the nation's most advanced polarimetric weather radars to more precisely detect major storms and precipitation. The new antenna gives scientists a "more delicate knife" to evaluate thunderstorms and the size and distribution ... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/weatherradar.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Geoeye_contracts.html GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced on June 4, 2008 new awards totaling $22 million to supply geospatial products and related services. Under this award GeoEye will provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) a sign... Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Geoeye_contracts.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cuspaceshuttle.html The launch of a University of Colorado at Boulder-built biomedical experiment aboard the space shuttle Discovery May 31 follows on the heels of an agreement between NASA and CU-Boulder to fly university payloads on every shuttle mission to the International Space Station until the shuttle program is... Thu, 29 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cuspaceshuttle.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ball-goddard.html NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has named Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. as a winner of the 2008 Goddard Contractor Excellence Award. The prestigious award recognizes companies that have significantly contributed to the success of the Goddard Space Flight Center's mission. Ball Aeros... Wed, 28 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ball-goddard.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DG-oilgas.html DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today unveiled ImageConnect: Oil and Gas, an online imagery service for oil and gas professionals worldwide with on-demand access via GIS and WMS services to areas of ... Tue, 27 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DG-oilgas.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/phoenix-lander.html NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. On May 26, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice. At 4:24 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, ... Tue, 27 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/phoenix-lander.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-Phalanx.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun assembly on three qualification test units for the Phalanx All-Light Marine TV (ALMTV) camera program. Ball Aerospace will build three ALMTV camera systems in 10 months under contract to Raytheon Company, and qualify the design in anticipation of a full... Wed, 21 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-Phalanx.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ABSL-battery.html On 12th May 2008, at the end of a competitive process, ABSL was awarded the contract to supply Lithium-ion battery hardware to power the astronaut Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) by NASA Johnson Space Center. ABSL batteries will power systems providing critical life support to astronauts during s... Tue, 20 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ABSL-battery.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Lockheed-GPS3.html The U.S. Air Force today announced that a team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Space System program, known as GPS III. This program will improve position, navigation, and timing services for the warfighter and civil users w... Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Lockheed-GPS3.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/geoeye-1-launch.html GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, announced an August 22, 2008 launch date for its next-generation, earth imaging satellite GeoEye-1. Boeing Launch Services and GeoEye finalized this launch date in an amendment to the Launch Service Agreement that was ... Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/geoeye-1-launch.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cu-team-to-build--34-million-instrument-package-for-u-s--environmental-satellite.html A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite mission slated for launch in 2013. The package will be built by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for ... Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cu-team-to-build--34-million-instrument-package-for-u-s--environmental-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MicroSat-contract.html ORBCOMM Inc., a leading global satellite data communications company providing two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, announced May 5 that it has signed a next generation satellite constellation contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build 18 new ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satell... Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MicroSat-contract.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CSU-space-prize.html The unmanned aerial vehicle team from Colorado State University took home the grand prize at the 2008 Undergraduate Space Research Symposium sponsored by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. The team - mechanical engineering seniors Allison Porter, Chris Lawhorn and Grant Rhodes - designed and cons... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CSU-space-prize.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-sensing.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded two NASA contracts that support the agency's Science Mission Directorate 2007 Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) in developing Earth science instrument subsystem technologies. Ball will also participate in a third contract as co-investigators on a... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-sensing.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cloudsat-achievement.html CloudSat, a joint project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Colorado State University and other agencies, has received a Rotary National Award for Space Achievement for providing unprecedented perspectives of Earth's clouds. CloudSat, which is the world's first cloud-profiling radar in orbit, la... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/cloudsat-achievement.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Weimer-CALIPSO.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Carl Weimer will be awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal during a ceremony May 8, for his work on the Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission. One of NASA's most prestigious honors, the award is presented... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Weimer-CALIPSO.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SRC-PItrackR.html SRC Computers, Inc., a leader in reconfigurable computing systems, has announced that it has been selected to provide processors for the Precision Image Tracking and Registration (PI TrackR) program developed by the Air Force Research Lab's (AFRL) Sensors Directorate. SRC's COTS Portable MAPstations... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SRC-PItrackR.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DigitalGlobe-autodesk.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that it has joined Autodesk's data initiative. DigitalGlobe's participation in the initiative will give Autodesk customers quick, easy and affordable access to h... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/DigitalGlobe-autodesk.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/worldview2-boeing.html DigitalGlobe, provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that it has chosen Boeing Launch Services for the launch of WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe’s third remote-sensing satellite. WorldView-2 will offer the industry’s highest collection... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/worldview2-boeing.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-lidar.html University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Xinzhao Chu has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a revolutionary lidar that will allow scientists to probe the upper layers of the atmosphere with unprecedented accuracy. Chu's MRI lidar will allow scientists... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-lidar.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-warfare-protection.html The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1.2 million to develop a new type of composite membrane with molecule-sized pores to protect people and facilities from airborne industrial toxins and chemical warfare agents. The three-year grant from DTRA, an a... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-warfare-protection.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-sounding.html The University of Colorado at Boulder's own version of "The Rocket Boys" (and Girls) will help to launch a CU payload on a sounding rocket to measure ultraviolet radiation from the sun from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico April 10. Developed by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric an... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-sounding.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ICO-G1.html Lockheed Martin is completing final preparations for Monday's launch of a commercial telecommunications satellite aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance. The launch window opens at 4:12 p.m. EDT Monday and extends until 5:12 p.m. The launch can be viewed live at www.ulalaunch.c... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ICO-G1.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CSCWeb.html The Colorado Space Coalition (CSC) launched its new Web site, www.spacecolorado.org, on April 8, 2008 as the country's top aerospace leaders gathered in Colorado Springs for the 24th National Space Symposium (NSS). Over 7,500 people will attend the NSS, including senior aerospace executive leadersh... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CSCWeb.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/space-gathering.html Top leaders from industry, academia, NASA and other government agencies will come together at the 3rd Space Exploration Conference, Feb. 26–28 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in coordination with NASA, the event ... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/space-gathering.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/24th-NSS.html The 24th National Space Symposium will see participation by several members of Congress, including Senator Wayne Allard, Congressman Mark Udall, and Congresswoman Heather Wilson. Allard and Udall will both give featured speeches. Wilson will make remarks at a luncheon in honor of Congressional Membe... Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/24th-NSS.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/merrick-LIDAR.html Merrick & Company was awarded a contract by REIS, Inc. (Monroe, NY) to deliver raw and processed LIDAR data and digital black and white orthophotography for approximately 900 square miles in Sullivan County, New York. The company is a world leader in LIDAR, digital ortho imaging, photogrammetry and ... Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/merrick-LIDAR.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/8th-continent.html Eighth Continent project to integrate space business into global economy The Eighth Continent Project, the world’s most comprehensive program to integrate space technology and resources into the global economy, was launched here today at the Colorado School of Mines Center for Space Resources. "Fo... Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/8th-continent.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SEAKR-IRIS.html SEAKR Engineering, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Cisco to build the Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) payload consisting of an IP layer 3 router and an IP Programmable MODEM. This payload is part of the IRIS initiative announced last April by Intelsat General, which was selected by the Departme... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/SEAKR-IRIS.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MicroSat-Inc.html Inc. Magazine ranked MicroSat Systems among its first-ever Inc. 5,000, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list, an extension of Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as w... Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/MicroSat-Inc.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-Kepler.html Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed two significant milestones for the Kepler Mission: the precision coating process of Kepler's primary mirror, and the integration of the detector array assembly. These milestones meet a critical path requirement and allow the program to b... Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-Kepler.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-orbital.html The first-of-its kind, autonomous servicing demonstration satellite launched on Thursday, March 8, 2007, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The three-month space mission is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Th... Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ball-orbital.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Lockheed-Orion.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today that it has selected the Lockheed Martin team to design and build the agency’s next-generation human space flight crew transportation system known as Orion, with an initial contract value of approximately $4 billion. Orion, a... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Lockheed-Orion.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Raytheon-GPS.html The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Raytheon a $160 million, 18-month contract to develop a new system design for the next-generation global positioning system control segment (GPS OCX), which will enhance both warfighter and civilian GPS performance. The contract award was N... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Raytheon-GPS.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GRAIL.html The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) newest mission will analyze the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Earth's moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission is the latest mission under NASA’s Discovery Program. Lockheed Martin will desig... Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GRAIL.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Raytheon-NPOESS.html Raytheon Company has achieved a significant program milestone for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by successfully completing the first phase of a major communications upgrade for Antarctica. The upgrade of the off-continent satellite communications li... Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Raytheon-NPOESS.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CloudSat.html New findings from NASA's CloudSat and other spacecraft in NASA's "A-Train" constellation of five Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds. The investigations are giving sc... Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CloudSat.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-MESSENGER.html NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a mind-boggling 141,000 miles per hour. Launched in Au... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-MESSENGER.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/WV1-imagery.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that WorldView-1 has reached Full Operating Capability (FOC) for all customers. The general availability of WorldView-1 imagery marks the final milestone for the... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/WV1-imagery.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GeoEye-2.html GeoEye, Inc., a leading producer of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, announced it has contracted with ITT Corporation to begin work on the camera for GeoEye's next satellite, GeoEye-2. This is the first step in a phased development process for an advanced, third-generation sa... Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GeoEye-2.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/worldview-1.html DigitalGlobe, provider of the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, today announced the successful launch and deployment of WorldView-1, the most agile commercial satellite ever flown. The satellite launched at approximately 11:35 AM PDT on a Bo... Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/worldview-1.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ron-Sega.html Ronald M. Sega, former NASA astronaut and current Under Secretary for the U.S. Air Force, will join Colorado State University as a professor of systems engineering and as vice president for Applied Research for the Colorado State University Research Foundation (CSURF). Sega brings decades of experi... Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/Ron-Sega.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/NSS-07.html With the nation’s third largest space economy, Colorado offers aerospace companies the country’s most educated space workforce and a dynamic atmosphere for business growth. And that message had a receptive audience at the National Space Symposium, the premier U.S. space forum for aerospace companie... Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/NSS-07.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ULA.html Partnership could bring 800 new aerospace jobs to Metro Denver HQ In December 2006, Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced the official completion of an agreement to combine the companies' expendable launch vehicle business under a 50/50 joint venture coined the United Launch Alliance (ULA). The ne... Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ULA.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/aerospace-economy.html The Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation (Metro Denver EDC) released its 2007 Aerospace Industry Cluster Profile on September 19, 2007, which reported that Colorado’s aerospace economy has propelled to the nation’s No. 2 position for private aerospace employment. With 26,650 people employ... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/aerospace-economy.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/NASA-CU.html NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1 million to lead the study of a space observatory to find Earth-like planets in distant solar systems and open the search for life outside our solar system. A second proposal from the Naval Research Laboratory involving CU-Boulder also was se... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/NASA-CU.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-astronaut.html NASA's space shuttle Endeavour will be carrying a former University of Colorado at Boulder postdoctoral researcher, a campus-built biomedical payload and two CU educational experiments when it blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on Tuesday, March 11. Takao Doi, who conducted postdoctoral work at CU... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/CU-astronaut.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/lockheed-satellite.html Team prepares next satellite for late-December launch The modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 17, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a successful on-orbit c... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/lockheed-satellite.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/deep-impact.html The flyby spacecraft built for the successful Deep Impact Mission by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been funded by NASA to embark on a new mission to encounter comet Hartley 2 on October 11, 2010. The Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI), and the Extrasolar Planet Observations and Cha... Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/deep-impact.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/lockheed-record.html Themodernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 20, 2007, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe, following a record-setting on-orbit deployment by a joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed M... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/lockheed-record.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ball-milestone.html The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. free-flying atmospheric lidar aboard NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, fired its one billionth laser pulse over the Ivory Coast on Sunday, Feb. 3., making it the longest lasting, most powerful on-orbit... Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/ball-milestone.html http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GOES-R.html Lockheed Martin submitted its proposal to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R (GOES-R), the next generation geostationary environmental satellites for the National Oceanic and... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spacecolorado.com/news/GOES-R.html