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 and the European Space Agency (ESA) have agreed to jointly pursue a new outer planets mission that would send separate U.S. and European spacecraft to visit the four largest moons of Jupiter circa 2026. Meanwhile, the agencies also will work together on a less mature mission concept for visiting Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, which would include a NASA orbiter and an ESA lander and research balloon that would descend to Titan’s cloud-shrouded surface.
Satellite operators are at risk of a loss to orbital debris like the one experienced by Iridium Satellite LLC last week about twice a decade, and the danger grows every time there is another collision involving orbiting objects.
In observance of the U.S. President’s Day holiday, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not publish an issue on Monday, Feb. 16. The next issue will be dated Feb. 17.
