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October 17, 2012

NASA's Operation IceBridge Resumes Flights Over Antarctica

Studying Changing Polar Ice In Fourth Year Of The Campaign

Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice, have begun another campaign over Antarctica. Now in its fourth year, IceBridge's return to the Antarctic comes almost a year after the discovery of a large rift in the continent's Pine Island Glacier.

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NASA Commercial Crew Partner Blue Origin Completes Rocket Engine Thrust Chamber

Will Power Reusable Booster System To Lift Company's Biconic Space Vehicle

NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As part of Blue's Reusable Booster System (RBS), the engines are designed eventually to launch the biconic-shaped Space Vehicle the company is developing.

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