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SPACE FLORIDA PRESS RELEASE
This week, Pizzuti Solutions was honored by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) with an “Honorable Mention†for Exploration Park® in the “Public/Private Partnerships†category of IEDC’s “Excellence in Economic Development Awards†in communities with a 500,000+ population.
Famed biologist and entrepreneur Craig Venter will give a special talk on synthetic genomics during the Space Studies Institute’s Space Manufacturing 14 conference in Mountain View, Calif. Venter — best known for his pioneering work in sequencing the human genome and creating the first cell with a synthetic genome earlier this year — will speak at the NASA Ames Conference Center on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 5-6:30 p.m. The talk, […]
PLANETARY SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE
It’s a match made in the heavens — the Planetary Society is joining forces with UnmannedSpaceflight.com (UMSF) to provide financial support for the renowned amateur space imaging website. The Planetary Society will host a gallery of amateur-processed photos.
The plume created by the LCROSS impact on the moon on Oct. 9, 2009.(Credit: NASA)
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission has won Popular Mechanics magazine’s 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology.
The sixth annual Breakthrough Awards recognize innovators and products poised to change the world in fields such as technology, medicine, aviation and environmental engineering. Honorees will be celebrated during a ceremony tonight at Hearst Tower in New York City.
REACTION ENGINES NEWS UPDATE
On 20th and 21st September, the UK Space Agency held a System Requirements Review on the commercial and technical capabilities of SKYLON at the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell, England. Approximately ninety invited experts attended the event venturing from various European and global nations including the USA, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea. In the months leading up to the Review, three engineers from the European Space Agency (ESA) were seconded to REL in order to investigate our technology, methods and analysis. ESA will provide the UK Space Agency with an official report on the Workshop within in the next month.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
NASA PROGRAM UPDATE
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have expanded their successful collaboration with international partners to launch an innovative, web-based environmental management system for the Himalayan region.
The partners inaugurated this state-of-the-art regional monitoring system, known as SERVIR-Himalaya, at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct. 5. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony in Nepal.
A few additional details on the XCOR-Curacao deal, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal: The latest such effort, slated to be announced Tuesday, is a nearly $25-million agreement between start-up space-plane maker XCOR of Mojave, Ca., a group of Dutch investors and the government of Curacao. XCOR officials said they are currently in discussions with a number of prospective European partners. “We’ve received a lot of inquiries from around the […]
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
Amid the gloom cast by mass layoffs and the arrival of the final space shuttle external tank last week, the clouds did part over the Sunshine State to reveal a brighter future when the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s version of NASA’s authorization bill.
Although the measure doesn’t include everything that the Obama Administration proposed for this key electoral state, Florida officials seem fairly satisfied with it. In addition to providing a clear direction for NASA, many of the bill’s provisions line up closely with the state’s approach to the post-shuttle era, which focuses on diversifying its aerospace base and commercial space opportunities.
The Google Lunar X Prize folks are holding a two-day summit on everyone’s favorite (favourite?) space center/tax haven, the Isle of Man. Euroluna posted the above video with Team Leader Palle Haastrup in which he summarizes discussions that took place on Monday morning. He’s a little difficult to understand given the background noise, but he does mention progress on a Master Team Agreement that will set the rules of the […]
The spaceport terminal in Curaçao should give the one in New Mexico a run for its money.
As first reported on Parabolic Arc back in May, XCOR has been negotiating with Space Experience Curaçao to fly its Lynx suborbital vehicle from the resort island in the Netherlands Antilles. On Monday, the company announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to do exactly that beginning in January 2014, contingent upon export approval by the U.S. government.
ARCA PRESS RELEASE
Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) has launched Helen 2, the first Romanian space rocket, on October 1th 2010, from the Black Sea.
In honor of the 53rd anniversary of Sputnik, the NASA page has gone all retro on us with a special splash page. It’s 1957 all over again. Dwight D. Eisenhower is president, The Everly Brothers are on the radio, and a tiny Soviet satellite flies overhead going “beeep beep beep.” Check it out, baby! And a very happy World Space Week, everybody!
