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Category: In the Press
A collection of articles featuring Global Aerospace Corporation In the Press
Stratospheric Satellites for Monitoring Global Disasters
From the article: ALTADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 3, 2002–At the annual meeting of the Global Disaster Information Network in Rome, Italy, last month, Global Aerospace Corporation introduced a new type of satellite that could provide communications and remote sensing data for disasters in remote areas of the world that have no technological infrastructure. Read the full articles here: MORE […]
Other Worlds
Aerial reconnaissance of Mars is being revisited Read the full article here:
Space Road Map
Year-long process will produce funding neutral tech guidelines. Read the full article here:
From undersea drones to $1M satellite launches
From the article: Imagine unmanned systems — drones, essentially — lying dormant on the ocean floor for years at a time, housing sensors or non-lethal weapons, which rise to the surface when triggered by the Navy. That’s one program underway by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was detailed in a report Thursday. And by underway, it’s in Phase 2 — with […]
How a government agency is seeding a generation of startups
From the article: The Pentagon agency that brought you the Internet, GPS and drones is setting its sights on an array of highly complex weapons ranging from satellites to undersea platforms in hopes of overwhelming America’s potential adversaries. After nearly four decades of unchallenged supremacy in offensive military capabilities, the U.S. now faces competitors such as China […]
Pentagon Testing Drones That Can Launch from Ocean Floor
From the article: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is testing a drone that can hibernate on the ocean floor for years at a time before being launched to the surface and into the air at the push of a button. Dubbed Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, the project was detailed in a biennial report released last […]
Falling Up From the Ocean Floor
An article from SIGNAL Magazine about GAC’s contribution to the DARPA Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program. From the article: DARPA advances its remote-triggered deep-sea device that will store payloads and rapidly lift them to the surface. Author: Sandra Jontz. SIGNAL Online MORE ABOUT UFP Read more about UFP here
Caltech News on StratoSail: Up, Up, and Away
GAC was featured on the California Institute of Technology in regards to Alexey Pankine and the development of StratoSail. From the article: Global Aerospace figured that if it could tackle the wind problem, it might be able to convince the space industry to give balloons a chance. The company ’s main achievement so far has been to design […]
A beautiful way to clean up Space Junk
GAC was featured in Fast Company Magazine regarding GOLD (Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device) and the methods to clean up Space Junk. From the article: Space junk is everything from spent rocket upper-stages that measure meters across, to lost bags of tools let go astronauts, to shattered Chinese satellites to flecks of paint moving at 25 […]
Exploring Mars With Balloons
GAC featured in an article published on SpaceDaily in regards to the possibility of space exploration via Space Balloons. From the article: Balloons outfitted with innovative steering devices and robot probes may be the best way to perform detailed surveys of Mars in preparation for human exploration. Dr. Alexey Pankine, project scientist at the Global Aerospace Corporation, presented an analysis of balloon applications for Mars exploration […]
Rechargeable lithium battery for aerospace missions
GAC featured in GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) regarding GAC’s plans (in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to produce a user-friendly software model called Dakota to predict the long-term behavior of advanced rechargeable Lithium Ion batteries in aerospace applications. From the article: The development of the Dakota model for Li-based batteries will enable […]