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.
NASA is streamlining its organizational structure to better support President Bush's vision for space exploration and ensure that the agency is "wired for success," according to Administrator Sean O'Keefe. As part of an organizational "transformation," NASA is restructuring its Strategic Enterprises into four Mission Directorates: aeronautics research, science, exploration systems, and space operations.
After scrubbing three previous launch attempts, the U.S. Air Force successfully deployed a replacement Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, GPS IIR-12, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:54 p.m. EDT June 23. Bad weather prompted launch officials to scrub launch attempts on June 19, 20, and 21. June 22 was spent rechecking the rocket, according to Boeing spokesman Robert Villanueva.
A National Academies panel explored the potential technical risks of a robotic servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope during a meeting June 23, with astronauts on the panel expressing concern that the initial capture of the observatory could be more difficult than some at NASA believe.
