Ed Wright Citizens in Space program used to be called Teachers in Space changed the focus recently to broaden it (also, a split with Space Frontier Foundation, which retains Teachers in Space program) Decades ago, Business Week has story on Cray 1 – “The machine that will change the world” At same time, Popular Electronics wrote about Altair 8800 – “the computer you can build” The Altair 8800 actually changed […]
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ORLANDO, FL., August 14, 2012 (Earthrise Space PR) — Omega Envoy, the Florida team competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), and its parent company, Earthrise Space Inc (ESI), are pleased to announce that Omega Envoy will be sponsoring Team Brick Buddies Explorers, a competitor in the Moonbots 2012 competition. Team Brick Buddies Explorers is one of the 30 finalists for phase two of the competition.
California Pilots Association Annual Meeting
Meet Us in Mojave!
CalPilots’ 2012 Annual Meeting happens October 19-21 at world-famous Mojave Air and Space Port…and it’s an event you do not want to miss. If you’re a pilot or aviation-enthusiast, you’re invited! Whether you are a CalPilots member or not, our Mojave meeting will be a unique and memorable experience – a truly enjoyable weekend for all California pilots.
Planetary Resources has a lot of ex-JPL employees who worked on Curiosity on its staff. At least six of them, five of whom appear in this video. Watch them discuss their experiences in landing a car on the Red Planet.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — The three American companies building next-generation spacecraft that NASA could call on to carry astronauts into orbit in the future will perform much of their work along Florida’s Space Coast, home of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act Agreements (SAAs) through the agency’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative are intended to lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services for government and commercial customers.
Atrius Holdings, LLC and Global Resource Energy, Inc. have failed to close contractually with Medusa Space for Mycroft Technology – contract is terminated.
Albuquerque, NM, August 16, 2012 (Medusa Space PR) –– Medusa Space, LLC executed an agreement with Atrius Holdings, LLC (Atrius) on July 5th to sell them 50% ownership of our Mycroft patent pending technology. Such agreement provided that a successful closing of escrow was to occur within 10 business days. Atrius then assigned the Agreement to Global Resource Energy, Inc. As of today, neither Atrius nor GBEN have closed the initial agreement, much less the follow on payments required. Several notices were provided to the companies and a final default notice with option to cure was issued by Medusa Space and ignored by the companies. Therefore the agreement is terminated due to lack of performance on the part of Atrius and/or GBEN.
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance “green” propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that are less harmful to our environment, have fewer operational hazards, and decrease the complexity and cost of launch processing.
Phoenix satellite concept. (Credit: DARPA)
Cambridge, MA (Aurora PR) – Aurora Flight Sciences was recently selected by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the Phoenix program to explore development of a new satellite morphology through creation of “satlets” capable of harvesting key components from retired spacecraft in earth orbit.
The goal of the DARPA Phoenix program is to develop technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in geostationary orbit and to demonstrate the ability to create new spacecraft systems at greatly reduced cost.
Aug 16, 2012 (Uwingu PR) — XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC’s crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products.
Uwingu is a space-themed, for profit start up seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. Uwingu’s mission is to use proceeds from those projects to generate funding for space exploration, research, and education efforts around the world. Uwingu’s crowd funding agent is IndieGoGo, a leader in the field.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — NASA recently provided new details about its plans for certifying commercially developed spacecraft and launch systems that could support future crewed missions to the International Space Station.
“We’re spurring an industry capability to and from low Earth orbit and working to ensure the U.S. ends its reliance on foreign crew transportation to the space station,” said Ed Mango, program manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). “We’ve decided now would be the best time to begin certification efforts to reduce the risk of technically challenging or costly redesigns to systems in the future.”