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.
Surrey Space Technology Ltd. has established a U.S. subsidiary to take advantage of growing demand among U.S. government and other international customers for economical but advanced responsive satellites and payloads. To be based in Colorado with facilities to be established later in California and the District of Columbia, SSTL U.S. eventually will become a self-contained design, production and operating entity. Commercial Director John Paffet will head the new company.
Lockheed Martin will begin cutting its 2,445-strong workforce on NASA’s space shuttle external tank project this fall as the shuttle fleet moves toward a planned retirement in 2010. Employees at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the tanks are built, as well as at company facilities at Kennedy Space Center and Huntsville, Ala., will be affected.
A brief in the Aug. 6 Aerospace DAILY contained incorrect information about the fate of the spacecraft, AMC-14, that was aboard a Proton M rocket that failed in March. The satellite was stranded in the wrong orbit.
