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.
International Launch Services (ILS) will orbit three Inmarsat-5 satellites aboard Proton vehicles launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2013-14. Based on Boeing's 702HP bus, the three Ka-band satellites will support Inmarsat's Global Xpress mobile broadband service. Inmarsat is investing $1.2 billion in the Global Xpress program, including launch costs. ILS also launched Inmarsat's most recent satellite, the third Inmarsat-4, from Baikonur in August 2008.
A search of data generated by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has revealed a small asteroid sharing Earth's orbit and preceding it around the Sun.
Orbital Technologies Corp. (Orbitech), a Madison, Wis.-based subsystem house, will provide environmental control and life-support system (ECLSS) and thermal control system hardware for the planned Dream Chaser commercial crew launch vehicle under a deal with Hamilton Sundstrand.
