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.
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program is seeking additional funding from its overseeing agencies to try to stay on schedule for a first launch in November 2009, following a series of delays with a prototype demonstration satellite that have exhausted the program's budget reserves.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The National Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA's Ames Research Center in California is expected to reopen in the summer of 2006 under the management of the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). The largest wind tunnel in the world, the NFAC was closed by NASA in 2003 following the agency's decision to scale back its rotorcraft research. The Army had relied upon the NFAC for its full-scale rotorcraft testing, but use had declined significantly in recent years.
NASA's Prometheus nuclear power and propulsion program is being restructured to focus first on surface power generation for planetary exploration, and next on nuclear-thermal rockets, according to Administrator Michael Griffin.
