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.
After a one-day launch delay resulting from high winds, NASA and the German Center for Air and Space Flight successfully launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission at 1:21 a.m. Pacific time March 17 from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
The Air Force is considering developing a version of the Active Denial non-lethal weapon for use on C-130 aircraft, according to Col. Mark Stephen, deputy director of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (ARFL) Directed Energy Directorate. Active Denial Technology (ADT) uses millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy to create painful sensations that can stop, deter and turn back an adversary from relatively long range. ADT is one of several directed energy technologies that may be incorporated onto the C-130, Stephen told The DAILY.
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is calling for an interagency working group to perform a study of America's critical space assets and devise plans for protecting them. "Name any form of communication we have, and satellites are somehow in the loop," Don Brownlee, AIA member and Aerojet Director of Space Systems Propulsion, said during an AIA press briefing in Washington March 14. "It doesn't really take a highly sophisticated, in-space attack to take out these assets, or disrupt or degrade our service."
