“This threat is emerging the day before a vote on reauthorizing vast domestic spying capabilities?” wrote one journalist. “What are the chances!” The House Republican leadership on Wednesday abruptly canceled planned floor votes on mass surveillance reforms shortly after unnamed U.S. intelligence officials told multiple news outlets that Russia has made alarming progress on a space-based nuclear […]
A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist will have a role in a new NASA center that aims to greatly improve space weather forecasting and preparedness for adverse events. NASA in August announced the creation of four Space Weather Centers for Excellence. NASA’s goal is to have improved space weather forecasting models and products ready for operation […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Board of Directors of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) accepted the resignation of the CEO/President, Milton Keeter, Jr., effective March 9, 2023. Mr. Keeter held the position since October 2021 and has provided the leadership and oversight of the operations of the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska, located in […]
In early January NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere after almost four decades in space. For 21 of those years, the ERBS actively investigated how the Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the Sun, and made measurements of stratospheric ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, and aerosols. As of […]