WhiteKnightTwo Flight Test Summaries Via Scaled Composites Flight: 111 Date: 14 Mar 13 Flight Time: 2.7 hr WK2 Pilot: Stucky WK2 CoPilot: Kalogiannis WK2 FTE: Sheryka Objectives: VG data collection Pilot proficiency Results: Objectives complete. Flight: 110 Date: 11 Mar 13 Flight Time: 4 hr WK2 Pilot: Mackay WK2 CoPilot: Nichols WK2 FTE: Sanchez Objectives: Systems checkout Airspeed calibration WK2 fuel cooler data collection Pilot proficiency Results: Objectives complete. Editor’s […]
Nor-Tech Case Study
Nor-Tech portable data center (Credit: Nor-Tech)
The Challenge
As commercial aviation companies prepare to usher in an age of space tourism, regulatory bodies such as the Federal Aviation Administration are tasked with the challenge of conducting research and collecting data to establish safeguards for the emerging industry. One area of concern is the amount of cosmic radiation passengers and crew of suborbital commercial space flights will be subjected to as they reach altitudes up to 100 km above the Earth.
By NanoRacks
After months of talking and listening to the biopharma community, and after the successful transportation to the space station on SpaceX-2 last week, a new chapter in biopharma research is now underway.
NanoRacks is working with Emerald Bio to support biopharma research using industry hardware and practices. Right now on the U.S. National Lab we have 24 proteins growing in hundreds of different solutions.This is only a first test step. The program is self-funded by NanoRacks and our intent is to work with CASIS and NASA to grow the program.
Alabama State Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, missed a key vote on the state’s budget on Tuesday because he was in Washington talking to Federal Aviation Administration officials about getting a spaceport.
“If we can get out ahead of this, we can lock it up,” he said.
Dial said that in the next few weeks he’ll introduce a bill that would create an Alabama Spaceport Authority, within the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. A draft of the bill states that the spaceport authority would “identify public lands for space launch” and “encourage the leveraging of venture capital and seed public-private partnerships to promote private enterprise.”
Virgin Galactic Facebook Caption: Another excellent rocket test! This photo from last Friday shows the second in a short series of final qualification tests prior to the first rocket-powered flight of SpaceShipTwo. The photo looks great, and the data looks even better. Photo by Tom Nault, Scaled Composites Editor’s Note: Sources told me last week that the test lasted around 15 or 30 seconds. This was the 26th test of […]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL. (March 14, 2013) – 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 a Request for Information (RFI) seeking to identify entities capable of serving as implementation partners for microgravity-based, non-embryonic stem cell research conducted on the station.
Artist’s conception of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus freighter approaching the International Space Station.
Seattle, WA – 3/14/2013 (Andrews PR) — Andrews Space (Andrews) today announced today that they’ve received orders from Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) for four additional Cargo Module Power Units (CMPUs) to supply power to payloads aboard Orbital’s Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL. (March 13, 2013) – 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 additional research grant awards totaling approximately $600,000 for two projects advancing protein crystallization in microgravity.