NASA’s Second Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition May 23-28, 2011 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Kennedy Space Center, Florida The Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). NASA will directly benefit from the competition by encouraging the development of innovative lunar excavation concepts from universities which may result in clever ideas and solutions which could be applied to […]
Massive fuel tank arrives at Wallops
DelmarvaNow.com
A 162-foot-long, 56-wheeled vehicle transporting the largest tank of the fuel farm needed to launch Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Taurus II rocket arrived Monday at Wallops Island after a three-month journey from Mexico.
German-Dutch start-up company iOpener has developed a technology to map real-world competitions such as Formula 1 to an artificial world, allowing gamers to participate in the races competing with the real drivers, virtually and in real time. During it start-up phase iOpener was hosted at ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Credit: iOpener
Venture capital fund backs business opportunities from space
ESA Press Release
Aug. 23, 2010
Two start-up companies offering a computer game to compete live with real racing drivers and communication handset for outdoor enthusiasts, both made possible thanks to space technology, are the first to receive funds from ESA’s new Open Sky Technologies Fund.
Here’s an interesting update on Copenhagen Suborbitals, a small Danish organization that is planning to launch people on suborbital flights aboard a tiny capsule:
Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen’s ambitious plans to oversee the successful launch of the world’s first ever amateur-built rocket for manned space travel are not exactly likely to have Nasa bosses quaking in their boots.
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia
WMDT-47 News has an interesting story the shows the importance of Wallops Island in Virginia to the Maryland economy:
On Monday, Governor Martin O’Malley will tour the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, one of the oldest launch sites in the world. NASA and the other organizations at Wallops, including the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) employ approximately 1,800 civilian positions, including government and contractor jobs, 700 of which are held by Marylanders…
On our 100th live show we have special guest Andrew Chaikin, who is best known as the author of “A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts.” First published in 1994, this acclaimed work was the main basis for Tom Hanks’ 12-part HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, which won the Emmy for best miniseries in 1998.
In the Space Review this week… SETI at 50 Fifty years after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) started, efforts have yielded no evidence of other civilizations, but the search continues. Jeff Foust reports on the past and future of SETI as discussed at a recent event. This space intentionally left blank: The limits of Chinese Military Power Last week the Defense Department released its latest version of a report […]
Monday, August 23, 2010, 2-3:30 PM PDT: We welcome Tim Dooley who is going to discuss the Victorian Space Age with us and his work in this area. This will be a one of a kind discussion you won’t want to miss. Tuesday, August 24, 2010:, 7-8:30 PM PT: Dennis Wingo is our scheduled guest for this show. Dennis will be talking about space policy, commercial space, and more. Friday, […]
An advertisement that I saw during the Plane Crazy Rockets R Us open house at the Mojave Air and Space Port on Saturday.
XCOR’s Lee Valentine shows an engineering test mock-up of the Lynx cockpit.
If the United States succeeds in developing conventional hypersonic weapons systems, Russia will be ready. The Voice of Russia reports that Col. Viktor Dvoinov, second in command of air defenses for the country’s ground forces, told a Moscow radio station on Saturday that the military will have a powerful laser defense system in place against hypersonic vehicles by 2015.