Falling from the edge of Space: Lights, Camera, Freefall! The Stratos mission team gives an exclusive look at the custom camera systems that will record and broadcast Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric mission later this year. Bringing together high definition and real time images to a supersonic freefall in the hostile environment of 23 miles / 36 km above earth won’t be easy.
Tucson firm designs system to keep astronauts breathing
Arizona Daily Star
A Tucson-based company is working on a new system that will maintain air quality for astronauts on short-term space missions to and from destinations such as the International Space Station.
SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket
SPACEX PRESS RELEASE
Today Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium announced a commercial agreement to provide dedicated launch services to the European institutional small satellite market.
Under the agreement, Astrium intends to work with SpaceX to market Falcon 1 launch capabilities to various space agencies and other institutional customers in Europe for launches to take place through 2015.
ARIANESPACE PAO
Arianespace is poised to build on its successful 30-year track record as the world’s leading launch services provider – benefitting from a robust payload order book that ensures more than three years of mission activity, and supported by the extension of its launcher family with the introduction of Soyuz and Vega during 2011 at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
This was the outlook provided by Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall at Arianespace’s traditional 2010 World Space Business Week conference press breakfast in Paris, where he provided an overview of the company’s activity and offered his perspective on the satellite market’s future.
Anousheh Ansari
SFF PRESS RELEASE
The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) will sponsor the first TEDxMidTownNY event to discuss the continued importance of exploration with X-Prize Cofounder Anousheh Ansari and Deputy Administrator of NASA Lori Garver. TEDxMidTownNY is a local, independently organized event to be held on September 14th, 2010 at 7 PM at the Explorers Club in New York, NY.
A diverse group of scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, adventurers, investors, teachers, and students will share their perspective and leave the event inspired to improve the collective future of humanity through space exploration. Tickets are available now through the Explorers’ Club website.
This isn’t really directly space related, but fellow ISU alum and Parabolic Arc reader Bojan Pecnik passed this video along of a stratospheric airship prototype that his company is developing. Pecnik is CTO of Hipersfera, a startup firm based in Zagreb, Croatia. The company is hoping to develop this system as a remote sensing vehicle that can provide continuous coverage of areas. He says that Hypersphere will have the ground […]
SPACEFLIGHT SERVICES PRESS RELEASE
Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) announced its participation in the Rocket City Space Pioneers Google Lunar X-Prize Team. Responsible for mission integration and providing space transportation services to Low Lunar Orbit, Spaceflight is also offering flight opportunities for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and Low Lunar Orbit (LLO).
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
“Continuing our pioneering leadership in prize competitions, NASA recently inaugurated an employee challenge, NASA@Work, a collaborative problem-solving program that will connect the collective knowledge of experts from all areas of NASA using a private web-based platform for NASA ‘challenge owners’ to pose challenges to internal “solvers.’ The solvers who deliver the best innovative ideas will receive a NASA Innovation Award.
“Today, the administration has announced a new online platform that empowers the federal government to bring the best ideas and top talent to bear on our nation’s most pressing problems. On Challenge.gov, entrepreneurs, leading innovators and citizen solvers can compete for prizes by providing novel solutions to tough problems and, at the same time, take pride in engaging with their government to advance national priorities.” (more…)
Europe’s efforts to add two new launchers to its spaceport in French Guiana are proceeding, although not at the pace everyone would like. Meanwhile, Arianespace will be expanding its rocket co-marketing relationship with ISRO.
Waste Not – Want Not
Mars500 Diary No. 5
18 August 2010
In the fourth diary entry, Diego Urbina tells us about watching the World Cup with a time delay and ‘hunting’ for food. With no supermarket on the way to Mars, tracking and monitoring of supplies is vital.
Football is one of those things that relax you after a hard day’s work with experiments. During the South Africa World Cup, we didn’t have access to cable TV as, apparently, there is no TV in outer space. Not being able to watch the matches live, we were able to watch a fraction of the tournament thanks to the aid of mission control.
Charles Simonyi
BELLEVUE, Wash.–Intentional Softwareâ„¢ Corporation today announced that Eric Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, Inc., has joined Intentional Software as president of the company working with Intentional founder and chairman, Charles Simonyi. Anderson, an experienced entrepreneur who pioneered and was the first to monetize the business of human spaceflight, has responsibility for bringing Intentional’s transformative technology to the worldwide marketplace.