Tue, Sep 06, 2011
Companies To Brief NASA Officials On Vehicle Development
The Innovative Partnership Program at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, is hosting an Emerging Commercial
Suborbital Capabilities Vehicles Workshop at Goddard on
Wednesday.
The workshop will give an opportunity for commercial companies
who provide sub-orbital services to brief Goddard Earth and space
science researchers and scientists about the new vehicles being
developed and their potential capabilities. The workshop will also
allow both groups to discuss science topics that might be conducted
from these platforms. These emerging capabilities are seen as
complementary to existing NASA suborbital platforms and personnel
from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va. will be participating to
discuss current capabilities that exist within the agency.
This workshop will allow for an open discussion of issues such
as platform capabilities and measurement needs. By having these
discussions now, any potential payload accommodation requests will
be understood and more easily managed.
Suborbital reusable launch vehicles enable researchers to
directly access regions of Earth's atmosphere that are too high for
balloons and too low for satellites to operate. There are numerous
unresolved scientific issues related to that atmospheric region
that science cannot currently address because of inadequate
observational sampling.
The workshop will be held September 7 from 0800 to 1700 EDT.
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