The £50,000 prize is split between four Inmarsat employees based at the firm's London headquarters: Eugene Jilg, chief technology officer for Inmarsat; Marcus Vilaca, chief scientist; Franco Carnevale, director, space segment engineering; and Alan Howell, director, system network engineering.
While the director of space science education does not believe the fireball is space junk or anything man-made, he couldn't confirm the origin of the object.
Peter Marquez, vice-president of strategy at Orbital Sciences Corporation, a private space-launch company, was once the National Security Council's director for space policy.
"The United States invented this industry," said Peggy Slye, director for space and telecommunications at Futron.
You had to use the skills of the director, with space and lens size — all of it".
From 1962 to 1964 he was director of space science at Bellcomm, a subsidiary of AT&T, where he helped select lunar landing sites for the Apollo spaceflight program.
From 1982 to 1983 he was NASA's senior science representative in Australia, and from 1983 to 1987 he was director of space and life sciences at the JSC.
Sarah Dalton, marketing director at Space Adventures, said the company has taken 140 reservations for suborbital flights, to be taken when a reusable launch vehicle comes to market.
The cause was complications after heart surgery, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he ended his career in 1986 as the director of space science.
Chris Carberry, executive director of space exploration non-profit organisation Explore Mars, told the Boston Herald that the discovery of water could also provide future astronauts with a source of water and oxygen.
Peter Marquez, director of space policy at the White House National Security Council, told reporters on Monday that the policy was reverting to a less confrontational approach that the United States had championed in the past.
