Moon Express has raised $500,000 in equity, debt and convertible promissory notes from a single investor, according to a March 12 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The half million dollars is part of a $2 million offering.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL., March 21, 2013 (CASIS PR) – The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization promoting and managing research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, today announced grant awards totaling $400,000 for two projects from its recent Request for Proposals (RFP) titled “Materials Testing in the Extreme Environment of Space.”
Boulder, Colorado (Uwingu PR) — Space company UwinguTM has launched a new public outreach project—a public contest to determine the worldwide public’s choice name for the nearest known planet around another star. Anyone can nominate a name; the contest ends April 15th.
The name getting the highest number of votes will be declared the public’s name for this mysterious new world. Never before has the public been asked to choose its favorite name for a planet. Anyone can nominate one or more names; anyone can vote.
F-1 thrust chamber. (Credit:Jeff Bezos)
Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon.com and Blue Origin — has completed an expedition to recover Saturn V F-1 engines from deep below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Below is his report on the successful project.
March 20, 2013
What an incredible adventure. We are right now onboard the Seabed Worker headed back to Cape Canaveral after finishing three weeks at sea, working almost 3 miles below the surface. We found so much. We’ve seen an underwater wonderland – an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines that tells the story of a fiery and violent end, one that serves testament to the Apollo program. We photographed many beautiful objects in situ and have now recovered many prime pieces. Each piece we bring on deck conjures for me the thousands of engineers who worked together back then to do what for all time had been thought surely impossible.
WhiteKnightTwo Flight Test Summaries Via Scaled Composites Flight: 112 Date: 18 Mar 13 Flight Time: 2.5 hr WK2 Pilot: Mackay WK2 CoPilot: Alsbury WK2 FTE: Dugué Objectives: Pilot proficiency Glide flight prep Chase checkout Results: Objectives complete. Editor’s Note: The second glide flight with the engine configuration in place appears to be imminent. Engineers had WhiteKnightTwo with SpaceShipTwo attached out on the ramp yesterday doing pressurization tests. The company plans […]
Mountain View, California, March 22, 2013 (SVSC PR) – The Silicon Valley Space Center will develop four scientific payloads to fly on the XCOR Lynx spacecraft, which is currently under construction in Mojave, California.
The payloads will fly on missions sponsored by the United States Rocket Academy’s Citizens in Space program. The payloads are part of a cooperative agreement between the Silicon Valley Space Center and Citizens in Space, which was announced today.
Tampa, Florida, March 20, 2013 (A4H PR) – Astronauts4Hire (A4H) is pleased to announce that it is seeking highly qualified candidates to expand its cadre of prospective commercial astronauts. Individuals interested in becoming Flight Members can submit applications via the Astronauts4Hire website at https://forms.astronauts4hire.org/FMapplication by April 20, 2013. Selectees will be announced during the first week of June 2013 at the Next-generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Broomfield, Colorado.
Hawthorne, CA (SpaceX PR) – Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Merlin 1D engine has achieved flight qualification, a major milestone for the next generation Merlin engine. Through a 28 test qualification program, the Merlin 1D accumulated 1,970 seconds of total test time, the equivalent run time of over 10 full mission durations, and is now fully qualified to fly on the Falcon 9 rocket.
It was a busy day here with multiple activities at different locations at the Mojave Air and Space Port. WhiteKnightTwo with SpaceShipTwo attached was out on the ramp in front of the Scaled hangar. Engineers were doing pressurization tests using helium before they rolled the ships back into the hanger in the afternoon. SpaceShipTwo has not flown since a Dec. 19 glide test that features an engine for the first […]
BELTSVILLE, MD., March 19, 2013 (ViviSat PR) — ViviSat, the leading provider of in-orbit servicing, has announced a unique, highly agile hosted payload capability that will supplement its life extension services.
ViviSat uses the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), manufactured by one of its parent companies, ATK. The primary mission of the MEV is to dock with an orbiting satellite and serve as the propulsion and attitude control systems. This enables mission extension for satellites that have run out of maneuvering fuel yet still have healthy payload and power systems.