Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
STENNIS CHIEF: NASA has named Arthur “Gene” Goldman the new director of Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Goldman has served as deputy director since October 2006. He replaces Bob Cabana, who left last month to take the reins at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Prior to that, Goldman served as manager of the space shuttle main engine project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., from March 2004 until he moved to Stennis in 2006.
EQUATORIAL SHOTS: Sea Launch and Intelsat have signed an umbrella launch contract covering five missions from Sea Launch’s mobile equatorial launch platform that will be conducted from late 2010 through 2012. Sea Launch has performed eight successful missions for Intelsat, including Galaxy 18 and Galaxy 19 this year.
NASA conducted a roughly four-second ground firing of the Launch Abort System (LAS) motor for the Orion spacecraft at Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) facility in Promontory, Utah, on Nov. 20, marking the first test of its kind since the Apollo era and clearing the way for the first integrated pad abort flight-test this coming spring at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
