No. 1 Story

Mobile operators get fixed price spectrum renewal in $3b Government windfall

The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.

read more

Obama announces Shuttle ends and Orion begins in 2010

Science - Space



The United States, however, is not looking forward to a five-year peroid of inability to send its own astronauts into space.

NASA will have to rely on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send its astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station.

Already, though, in 2010, NASA is expecting to make the first test of its new Ares I rocket, and hopefully be well on its way to meet its scheduled launch of the first Orion space capsule.

Learn more about the Obama announcement concerning the future of NASA, from the perspective of the newspapers within the major NASA space centers, at:

NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida


Florida Today: “Obama budget sticks to 2010 shuttle retirement

The Orlando Sentinel: “Obama budget for NASA shoots down space shuttle hopes

NASA Johnson Space Center, Texas

The Houston Chronicle: “Shuttle program, energy take hits

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama

The Huntsville Times: “Griffith: Budget tribute to NASA

UPDATES 3/9/09: "Griffith" changed to "Griffin" (I do that sometimes, don't know why?) and also comments made by Alabama congressman Griffith were attributed to him and not to former NASA administrator Griffin. (again, that Griffin versus Griffith thing).

Loading comments ...



- sponsored feature -

The Death of Traditional BI: What’s Next?

How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business IP PABX BUYING GUIDE

Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more