Live video chat by Ustream The Power Beaming Challenge is being held today and tomorrow at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
Cassini’s flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus produced spectacular photos of the satellite venting vapor into space.
XCOR's Lynx suborbital vehicle
PRESS RELEASE
Elizabeth City, NC – Elizabeth City State University, supported by the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance, North Carolina’s Northeast Commission, and NASA Space Grant, will host North Carolina’s first entrepreneurial space industry (NewSpace) forum on November 12th. A reception will be held November 11th, 6-8pm at the Arts of the Albemarle.
CSF PRESS RELEASE
Bretton Alexander, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, has been appointed by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to the NASA Advisory Council, a federally chartered body of experts that provides advice and counsel directly to the NASA Administrator. Additionally, Alexander has been selected to chair the newly formed Commercial Space Committee of the NASA Advisory Council.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden held his first meeting with the restructured NASA Advisory Council recently at the agency’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Bolden has added four new committees to the council in key areas of importance to the agency’s future: Commercial Space, Education and Public Outreach, Information Technology Infrastructure, and Technology Innovation.
The Space Review looks at human spaceflight, robotics and DARPA’s distributed satellite experiment.
The Space Show for this week: 1. Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, 2-3:30 PM PST: Miles O’Brien returns. Miles is the former CNN Space & Technology news anchor and the latest member of the NASA Advisory Council. 2. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, 7-8:30 PM PST: We welcome Dr. Jeff Hoffman, former astronaut. Dr. Hoffman helped carry out the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, STS 61; December, 1993. 3. […]
Veeraraghavan new VSSC director
The Hindu
P.S. Veeraraghavan, a rocket technologist, took over on Saturday as Director, Vikram Sarabahi Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, from K. Radhakrishnan who has been appointed Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Mr. Veeraraghavan was till now Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram.
ISRO PRESS RELEASE
Dr K Radhakrishnan, Member, Space Commission and Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, assumed the office of Chairman,Dr.K Radhakrishnan Space Commission, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today (October 31, 2009).
Reports out of Cantil indicate that Unreasonable Rocket has ended its quest to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. During a test flight using a crane and tether, Unreasonable’s Silver Ball lander oscillated, broke the tether, and fell back onto the launch pad on its side. A leg punctured the fuel tank, damaging the vehicle and preventing another flight attempt on the last day of the competition.
NASA funding may land in Arizona: Orbital, Paragon vying for slice of $50 million
Azcentral.com
Orbital Sciences Corp. and Paragon Space Development Corp. are vying for a piece of the $50 million in research funding NASA is expected to award businesses this month as part of the initiative.
The companies design and develop space-related technology at facilities in Arizona, and other local technology firms could benefit if either company secures funding.