NMSGC PR — LAS CRUCES, NM – The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) has announced the Third Annual Education Launch will be available to view live online on Friday, May 20. This launch and the yearlong education plan to build experiments is sponsored by NASA through the Summer of Innovation Program. Of the 27 experiments on board, three high school experiments and one community college experiment are supported by the New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax revenue, which is dedicated to supporting spaceport-related education. The UP Aerospace SL-5 rocket is scheduled to launch at 7 a.m. MDT. Pre-launch and launch coverage can be viewed at www.KRQE.com or https://www.launchnm.com/
CSF PR — The National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR) in Southampton, PA, a member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, welcomed last week its latest set of future scientist-astronauts and educator-astronauts for training. Participants are training to conduct scientific research while flying onboard commercial suborbital spacecraft such as those operated by Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, XCOR Aerospace, and Armadillo Aerospace.
Hi everyone. I’m at the Space Investment Summit 9, which is a pre-event before the International Space Development Conference. I’ll be covering the summit her on PA and also on Twitter @spacecom.
Exclusive footage of the first feather flight in Mojave, CA.
ISRO to set up R&D centre, sub-systems integration facility
Deccan Herald
The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to set up an advanced R & D centre in the field of spacecraft technologies in Karnataka’s Chitradurga and rocket sub-systems integration facility near the spaceport of Sriharikota in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
HiFire scramjet vehicle
Aviation Business has an update on Australia’s SCRAMSPACE project:
Australia’s own hypersonic jet project is on track for launch at Woomera late next year, having just passed a major design review.
According to Dr Sandy Tirtey, the Technical Lead and focal point of the project team, the scramjet has passed its preliminary concept development phase. (more…)
The latest alert from Space Access Society Founder Henry Vanderbilt concerning NASA’s commercial crew and space technology development programs.
Space Access Society Political Action Alert
Tuesday 5/17/11
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Political Action Alert:
Defend NASA Commercial Crew and NASA Space Technology in the FY’12 Budget
Action Summary:
Contact your Representative by Friday morning at the latest, and ask that they tell the Appropriations Committee that they support full funding for the NASA Commercial Crew and Space Technology programs. (Scroll down to the “Background” sections for more on why these and why now, and “Action Details” for specifics on how to proceed.)
Last week, XCOR COO Andrew Nelson told me he was going to Stockholm for an event but wouldn’t tell me what. Well, now I know….. Cosmica Spacelines Inaugural Membership Event 19 May, 2011 – 18h30 to 23h00 Your Next Destination – Space? Invitation to Connoisseur Members Private Spaceflight – Membership & Investment Evening Would you like to be one of the first Swedes in space? Come to an exceptional evening […]
I’m off to ISDC in Huntsville. In the place of stories today, here’s a picture of spring in Silicon Valley. Took this the other day in Mountain View.
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg)
Are you a high-profile CFO?
Do you like space?
And do you have a hint of merriment?
Well, we’ve found the perfect job for you. Brash British billionaire Richard Branson is looking for a CFO for Virgin Galactic, the company that will be making suborbital space tourism flights from New Mexico.
CSF PR — Washington, D.C., Monday, May 16, 2011 – NASA has announced its first four payloads to fly on commercial suborbital spacecraft, kicking off a new era of low-cost technology R&D, science, and STEM education enabled by new commercial spacecraft being developed by Armadillo Aerospace, Blue Origin, Masten Space Systems, Virgin Galactic, and XCOR Aerospace. NASA also announced the latest round of payloads to fly on the Zero-G parabolic aircraft operated by Zero Gravity Corporation. NASA’s suborbital payloads announcement illustrates the high-payoff projects being pursued by NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT), a newly formed division whose purpose is to revitalize technology R&D at NASA through innovative research.