SpaceNews This Week | Trump adds six more to NASA transition team

December 9, 2016 View this email in your browser Trump adds six more to NASA transition team Brian Berger and Jeff Foust —The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump added six more people to the NASA landing team Friday, including senior Dynetics executive Steve Cook and former astronaut Sandy Magnus. Orbital ATK wins $29.2 million contract for NRO launch Phillip Swarts —  The U.S. Air Force awarded Orbital ATK a $29.2 million fixed-price contract to launch a Minotaur 1 rocket on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) within the next 24 months,  the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center announced Dec. 8 Inmarsat shifts satellite from SpaceX to Arianespace Jeff Foust — Facing looming regulatory deadlines, Inmarsat announced Dec. 8 it was moving the long-delayed launch of a satellite to provide aeronautical broadband services from SpaceX to Arianespace. Spacecom says acquisition talks with Beijing group are still ongoing Caleb Henry —  Israeli satellite operator Spacecom is denying media reports that it has concluded an agreement to sell itself to the Chinese conglomerate Beijing Xinwei Technology Group, claiming instead that talks are still ongoing. Mars One delays schedule as venture becomes publicly traded  Jeff Foust — Mars One, the project to send humans to Mars on one-way missions that has attracted public interest and professional skepticism, said Dec. 7 is it delaying its timetable for those missions by several years. Upcoming Events   Dec. 12-16 AGU Fall Meeting | San Francisco   Full Events Calendar Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Advertise with Us | Privacy Policy | Subscribe Copyright © 2016 SpaceNews Inc., All rights reserved. You signed up to receive this newsletter on Spacenews.com. At times you may receive marketing material. Please unsubscribe from SpaceNews Marketing if you no longer want to receive this material. Our mailing address is: SpaceNews Inc. 1414 Prince St, Suite 204 Alexandria, VA 22314 Add us to your address book update subscription preferences(subscribe/unsubscribe) for this list unsubscribe from all lists