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.
Lockheed Martin is teaming up with Rice University in Houston on a new “center of excellence” that will fund joint research in nanotechnology. Known as the Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice University (LANCER), the center will kick off its initial slate of projects in June of this year. Reviewing proposals
SCINTILLATING SUCCESS: The U.S. Air Force’s Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite was launched by an Orbital Sciences Pegasus rocket at 10:02 a.m. Pacific time April 16. The Pegasus’ L-1011 carrier aircraft took off from Kwajalein Atoll in the Ralik Islands and spent about an hour climbing to launch altitude, at which point it released the Pegasus from its belly. The Pegasus booster deployed the 870-pound (395-kilogram) satellite into its targeted elliptical orbit of 205 x 385 nautical miles eight minutes later.
HAWKING SPEAKS: On April 21, Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge will speak as part of a lecture series honoring NASA’s 50th anniversary. The title of the lecture is “Why we should go into space.” The event will be held at the George Washington University’s Morton Auditorium at 3 p.m. EDT. Admission is by invitation only, but the event will be broadcast live at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
