The military called it Operation Bumblebee: a secret program to develop a weapon that -- like the insect -- could take off vertically, change directions instantly and deliver a painful sting

Micrometeoroid might be the culprit for NOAA satellite issues

The second express Russian Soyuz mission to the International Space Station restored the outpost to six-crewmember operations late March 28, after the capsule docked to deliver veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and the European Space Agency’s Luca Parmitano.

SAN DIEGO — Ambitious plans for an internationally developed space solar power (SSP) system to provide energy on a global scale by the middle of the century have been unveiled by space pioneer, humanitarian and former Indian President Abdul Kalam.

NASA may be overreaching in its more than $200 million cleanup plans for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory 30 mi. northwest of Los Angeles, which for decades was used by the Department of Energy, the U.S. Air Force and the space agency for nuclear energy research and rocket testing, according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin. The cleanup is projected to drive NASA’s otherwise little-noticed Environmental Compliance and Restoration budget line from $45 million in 2012 to $75.5 million annually through 2018.

STEM CELLS: The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis) is seeking proposals for using International Space Station facilities to study how microgravity affects the growth, division and differentiation of non-embryonic mammalian stem cells. Casis says it will provide grants, coordinate flight opportunities and locate potential partners for winning proposals. The non-profit organization, set up by Congress to operate the public U.S.

Large aerospace and defense (A&D) companies are getting out in front of government budget cuts by cutting costs, shedding excess capacity and trimming their workforces, and the payoff has been higher profit margins, according to the new results from Aviation Week’s Top-Performing Companies study.

HOUSTON — The European Space Agency’s (ESA) unpiloted Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4) the Albert Einstein, is expected to have no difficulty berthing with the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-June, but the station’s mission management team has approved a response strategy just in case Russia’s Progress 51 cargo capsule imparted damage as it docked with an undeployed navigation antenna early April 26.