Toshiba and JP Aerospace recently collaborated on a commercial that sent a chair to a very high altitude.
My friend Clark Lindsey at Hobby Space found this notice on the Blue Origin page:
Blue Origin has selected three unmanned research payloads to fly on the New Shepard suborbital vehicle as a part of Phase 1 of the New Shepard Research Flight Demonstration Program. These payloads were selected from an excellent field of submitted proposals.
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A Space Industry Innovation Council will be established to give the Australian Government strategic advice as it develops a national space policy and boosts support for space science and technology.
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PASADENA, Calif. – (Business Wire) Christie, Parker & Hale LLP (CPH), one of Southern California’s leading intellectual property law firms, announced today that the firm was instrumental in obtaining another major patent for its client Mojave Aerospace Ventures, LLC of Seattle, Washington, and inventor Burt Rutan.
This week’s edition of The Space Review looks at space tourism, land rushes and advocacy.
Michael Belfiore, Alan Boyle and Paul Breed are guests on The Space Show this week.
CSF PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C., November 23, 2009 – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce the creation and initial membership of the Spaceports Council, composed of spaceports worldwide who seek to cooperate on issues of common interest such as airspace access, legal and regulatory frameworks, infrastructure, international policy migration, liability, and voluntary common operating standards.
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Former NASA astronaut Samuel T. Durrance, a PhD astronomer and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, has been selected as the latest addition to the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG).
Video of Tony Webb, founder of eSpaceTickets.com, talks about the development of Cecil Field as a spaceport supporting space tourism.
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on the growth of global space capabilities. Members and witnesses discussed how the growth of global space capabilities may affect the future of the U.S. space program, including opportunities to partner with other nations to share costs and expertise, and the risks of losing the U.S. leadership in space.
HOUSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
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Today, the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing entitled, The Growth of Global Space Capabilities: What’s Happening and Why it Matters. The hearing examined the United States’ leadership in space-related capabilities and compared them against those being acquired and utilized by newly-emerging space-faring nations.
U.S. losing its lead in space, experts warn Congress
McClatchy Newspapers
America’s once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of experts told the House subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.