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.
NASA is seeking ideas from industry about communications and navigation services that could be used by future lunar explorers over the next quarter-century. The request for information (RFI) calls for concepts for terrestrial network services and ground stations, Earth-orbiting satellites, Moon-orbiting satellites and lunar surface capabilities, among other categories.
Rigorous trajectory requirements for a pair of NASA aeronautics experiments probably contributed to a loss of control that forced range-safety destruction of their Alliant Techsystems ALV-X1 launcher last week. Kent Rominger, vice president of advanced programs at ATK, says the “very unique and demanding” trajectory imposed by the Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition (HyBolt) experiment and the Sub-Orbital Aerodynamic Re-entry Experiment (Soarex) may have overtaxed vehicle control systems on the experimental vehicle.
An Aug. 27 Aerospace DAILY story on NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope misidentified the rocket on which the observatory was launched. It was a Delta II Heavy.
