Draper Laboratory’s Cygnus guidance, navigation and targeting team led by Ian Mitchell and including David Benson, Christopher Bessette, Louis Breger, Sungyung Lim, Piero Miotto, Richard Phillips, Russell Sargent, David Woffinden, Kurt A. Winikka and Renato Zanetti has won a 2014 Stellar Award from the Houston-based Rotary National Award for Space Achievement. The award was granted for development of software that enables the Cygnus spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
Airbus Group CEO T om Enders has received the 2014 Distinguished Business Leadership Award from the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank. The council praised Enders as a “visionary global business leader and passionate Atlanticist,” who is providing “important thought leadership on the future of Europe, on Germany and its place in the world, and on the centrality of transatlantic cooperation on security and defense to a more peaceful world.”
The results of the 2014 Top-Performing Companies (TPC) study are heartening but troubling: Industry profits soared nearly 10% but the improvements are concentrated among the largest organizations.
The price of carbon dioxide allowances (EUAs) under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) rebounded in April, having crashed to a nine-month low in late March.
It is nearly that time of year again, when Aviation Week runs the numbers and reveals which airlines are the financial overachievers and which are the basket cases.
Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, the new chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, says the aerospace industry can help him with automation and visual displays for greater agility in cyberwarfare. And after get-acquainted visits to the U.K., Germany, Afghanistan and Israel, he concedes the NSA has some fence-mending to do. Revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “caused quite a stir” in Germany, where outrage is still running high over NSA monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.
Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, the new chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, says the aerospace industry can help him with automation and visual displays for greater agility in cyberwarfare. And after get-acquainted visits to the U.K., Germany, Afghanistan and Israel, he concedes the NSA has some fence-mending to do. Revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “caused quite a stir” in Germany, where outrage is still running high over NSA monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.
An editorial in the April 28 issue (page 54) incorrectly referred to a joint venture that provides space launch services to the U.S. Air Force. It is the United Launch Alliance.
Malaysian officials in their first official report on the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, called on the international community to "examine the safety benefits of introducing a standard for real-time tracking" of commercial aircraft,” but provided few new details on the mystery.
