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.
Fledgling space elevator company Liftport Inc. says it plans to distribute an "encyclopedia" of technical questions associated with space elevators later this year in the hopes of attracting university researchers to the field. "We're trying to develop individual questions that would make really great research topics for a Ph.D. candidate" or other researcher, Liftport President Michael Laine said during a press conference in Washington on May 30.
While NASA's field centers work on in-house concepts for lunar landers, the agency's Johnson Space Center (JSC) has released a request for information (RFI) to industry calling for its ideas as well.
Boeing's Spectrolab division believes it is making headway in its attempt to convince the U.S. government to take its space-qualified solar cells off the State Department's munitions list and put them back under Commerce Department control. "I've been at Washington, D.C., and talked to the Department of State a number of times and we're hoping everything is going to come under Department of Commerce jurisdiction shortly," Spectrolab President David Lillington told The DAILY.
