Seattle, WA – 13 November 2012 (Andrews Space PR) — Andrews Space (Andrews) today announced today they have signed an exclusive agreement with Sinclair Interplanetary (Sinclair) of Toronto, Canada to begin selling and manufacturing Sinclair’s highly popular torque rods.
Under the agreement, Andrews will take over manufacturing the Sinclair TQ-15 and TQ-40 torque rod products and their variants, which are ideal for spacecraft weighing between 30 and 180 kg.
WhiteKnightTwo Flight Test Summaries Via Scaled Composites Flight: 104 Date: 06 Nov 12 Flight Time: 1.7 hr WK2 Pilot: Colmer WK2 CoPilot: Stucky WK2 FTE: Withrow Objectives: Virgin Galactic WK2 pilot proficiency Results: Objective complete. Flight: 103 Date: 06 Nov 12 Flight Time: 2.2 hr WK2 Pilot: Colmer WK2 CoPilot: Stucky WK2 FTE: Kalogiannis Objectives: Virgin Galactic WK2 pilot proficiency Results: Objective complete.
Attention, Google Lunar X Prize competitors! China is looking to take $5 million out of one of your pockets. And they may not be anything you can do about it. China has announced definitive plans to launch its Chang’e-3 lunar mission during the second half of 2013. The mission includes a lander as well as a six-wheeled rover that will explore the lunar surface. If the mission is successful, then […]
“Washington Crossing the Delaware,” Emanuel Leutze, 1851
On this Veterans Day weekend, we recall all those who have served and given their lives for this country. Especially America’s first soldiers, the volunteers of the Continental Army who fought seemingly impossible odds to gain our nation’s independence from Great Britain. From their sacrifices, the rest of American history flowed.
The same degree of grit, determination and sacrifice can be seen today in our Armed Forces. So, it is appropriate today that we honor them and all the veterans, past and present, with us and not, whose sacrifices have helped to keep America free and to free million of others.
I have but two wishes on this day of remembrance….
Sir Richard Branson and daughter, Holly, look through the window of a SpaceShipTwo shell. (Photo credit: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic)
MOJAVE, CA – Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, today dropped into his Mojave, Calif.-based Virgin Galactic space company as part of a visit to the Los Angeles area. During his visit, Sir Richard, accompanied by his daughter, Holly, toured the extensive facilities and met informally with the Mojave-based workforce now numbering more than 175 Virgin Galactic employees. Sir Richard announced to staff that Virgin Galactic’s Mojave-based sister organization, The Spaceship Company, which will manufacture and assemble a fleet of commercial space vehicles, is to be renamed and brought under the Virgin Galactic brand.
It seems as though skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner not only has a distinct dislike for Mars exploration but also for Greek truck drivers who get in his way: Supersonic skydiver Felix Baumgartner has been found guilty of punching a Greek lorry driver in the face in a road rage incident in his home town of Salzburg, Austria two years ago. Baumgartner, who last month broke the world record altitude for […]
Aviation Week reports that investigators are still searching for the reason that an RL-10 engine experienced an under thrust on a Delta IV launch last month, nearly destroying a military GPS satellite.
The U.S. Air Force is not close to finding a root cause of a recent low-thrust problem in an RL10 upper stage engine made by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, and the service may further delay launch of its Orbital Test Vehicle-3 mission as well as NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System K spacecraft, says Air Force Space Command chief Gen. William Shelton.
Uwingu PR — Astronomy Magazine and space start up Uwingu™ announced today an agreement to jointly promote Uwingu’s extrasolar planet naming and voting product at https://betaclone.uwingu.com . Through this product, Uwingu is generating a new source of funds for space exploration, research, and education.
Josep Maria Lladó (left) accepts the John Connell Innovation Award from Mike Weatherley (right) MP for Hove and Portslade on behalf of near-space flights company zero2infinity at the ‘Noise Oscars’ hosted at the House of Commons on 6th November. (Pic credit: Picture Partnership – Andrew Dunsmore)
LONDON, UK (zero2infinity PR) — Quiet Mark, a trading arm of the charitable foundation Noise Abatement Society, has presented Spanish company zero2infinity with its special Award of Distinction at the NAS John Connell Awards 2012. Josep Maria Lladó, founder of Ultramagic Balloons and investor in zero2infinity, received the accolade for the company’s work to bring quiet and environmentally friendly near-space travel to the mass market.
This week on The Space Show with David Livingston…. 1. Monday, November 12, 2012, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back GEORGE SOWERS OF ULA.. Mr. Sowers will be with us for the first hour. We will return for the balance of the program with an open Q&A session. 2. Tuesday, November 13 , 2012, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): DR. […]
