Ken Murphy gives an extended review of the recent ISDC 2011 event in Huntsville: ISDC 2011 Debrief - Out of the Cradle.
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Here's the summary and audio file for the interview with John Spencer of the Space Tourism Society on the Space Show on Sunday: John Spencer, Sunday, 5-29-11 - The Space Show's Blog.Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 10 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2011 Huntsville , Alabama May 18-22, 2011 2nd Int . IAA Conf . on Private Human Access to Space Arcachon , France May 30-June 1, 2011 NewSpace 2011 NASA Ames July 28-31, 2011 Small Satellite . Conf Utah State , . Univ Logan , Utah Aug.8-11, 2011 Space Access Int . . Conf Paris , France Sept 21-23, 2011 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donationAppendix B in NASA's Commercial Market Assessment for Crew and Cargo Systems report (pdf) found that the development costs of the SpaceX Falcon 9 were a factor of ten below that predicted by NASA's cost model for a similar project led by the agency. Here's a look at how these extra costs for such projects can arise within NASA: Part 2: Appendix B - TEA Party in Space.
Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel and have announced an upcoming launch window for their Tycho Brahe capsule. The window extends from June 1-14, 2011 and they are currently shooting for Thursday, June 2 for an unmanned suborbital test flight, according the their website. The group is [...]Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet Copenhagen Suborbitals Upcoming Launch Attempt in June by Nancy Atkinson on May 30, 2011 Share Kristian Von Bengtson checks the cockpit before the launch dummy is loaded . Photo credit : Bo Tornvig , Copenhagen . Suborbitals Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel and have announced an upcoming launch window for their Tycho Brahe capsule . The window extends from June 1-14, 2011 and they are currently shooting for Thursday , June 2 for an unmanned suborbital test flight , according the their . website The group is headed by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen , and their HEAT 1-X rocket is being prepared for launch from a steel
. Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet Dead Galaxy Don’t Think . So by Tammy Plotner on May 30, 2011 Share University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars . The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with . time There was a time when most astronomers concluded that elliptical galaxies were a lot like their globular clusters full of similarly evolved and aged stars . But not anymore . Thanks to the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope , a team of researchers from the University of Michigan were able to peer into the heart of Messier 105 and pick out several young stars and clusters . Apparently , The reports of my death have beenA couple of interviews with Google Lunar X PRIZE teams
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Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 10 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2011 Huntsville , Alabama May 18-22, 2011 2nd Int . IAA Conf . on Private Human Access to Space Arcachon , France May 30-June 1, 2011 NewSpace 2011 NASA Ames July 28-31, 2011 Small Satellite . Conf Utah State , . Univ Logan , Utah Aug.8-11, 2011 Space Access Int . . Conf Paris , France Sept 21-23, 2011 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation
Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 10 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2011 Huntsville , Alabama May 18-22, 2011 2nd Int . IAA Conf . on Private Human Access to Space Arcachon , France May 30-June 1, 2011 NewSpace 2011 NASA Ames July 28-31, 2011 Small Satellite . Conf Utah State , . Univ Logan , Utah Aug.8-11, 2011 Space Access Int . . Conf Paris , France Sept 21-23, 2011 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donationSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 10 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISDC 2011 Huntsville , Alabama May 18-22, 2011 2nd Int . IAA Conf . on Private Human Access to Space Arcachon , France May 30-June 1, 2011 NewSpace 2011 NASA Ames July 28-31, 2011 Small Satellite . Conf Utah State , . Univ Logan , Utah Aug.8-11, 2011 Space Access Int . . Conf Paris , France Sept 21-23, 2011 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation The
UPDATE: And we have a sighting! Beth Katz from Pennsylvania in the US sent us this image,an 8 second exposure of the ISS and Endeavour taken early this morning. “We observed them seeming even further apart and then closer as they moved away from us,” Beth said via email. Space shuttle Endeavour will undock from [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard May 27, 2011 Using ISS for Human Exploration Beyond LEO Michael Rafferty , Deputy Program Manager for the International Space Station , tries to pitch Using ISS for Human Exploration Beyond LEO He describes missions around the moon , near earth objects asteroids near earth and Mars missions . All of these things could also be done without the ISS , but since it is up there already it could be used where . appropriate There is an emphasis on solar electric propulsion as well and there are other propulsion and power systems which could work . The panels like what they propose are on the ISS but those are heavy and do not provide as much power for the weight . It looks like because of the weight of what they are proposing they
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard May 27, 2011 Boeing should deliver twenty 787 Dreamliners in 2011 Boeing is expected to deliver twenty 787 Dreamliners in 2011 China Southern , one of China's leading airlines , will receive its first 787 Dreamliner aircraft from the Boeing company in the fourth quarter of this year Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft are designed to use 20 percent less fuel than other aircraft of similar size . The aircraft can carry as many as 290 passengers on journeys of more than 15,000 kilometers If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw at 5 27 2011 Labels : airplanes asia china energy future japan united states Boeing should deliver twenty 787 Dreamliners in 2011 Boeing is
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard May 26, 2011 High-temp MEMS can withstand 175 degrees Celsius EETimes Analog Devices Inc . is offering a dual-axis accelerometer capable of withstanding up 175 degrees Celsius 342 degrees Fahrenheit for ruggedized industrial applications . The device is based on what ADI calls the world's first high-temperature micro-electro-mechanical system MEMS technology . While designed for ruggedized applications such as smart-drilling rigs that must excavate miles below the earth's surface , the high-temperature iMEMS accelerometer is also an ultra low-power device , consuming only about 700 microamps , depending on operating mode , according to ADI . Bandwidths of 5-Hz to 2.5-kHz are user selectable with an ultra-low noise floor and
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard May 26, 2011 Skylon Spaceplane Precooler component that will be tested in June 2011 Sabre's precooler technology will be put through its paces on a test rig this summer BBC News had coverage of the Skylon Spaceplane and the recent positive review by the UK Space . agency The Sabre propulsion system is essential to the success of the project.The engine would burn hydrogen and oxygen to provide thrust but in the lower atmosphere this oxygen would be taken directly from the . air At high speeds , Sabre would have to manage 1,000-degree gasses entering its intake . This hot air would need to be cooled prior to being compressed and burnt with hydrogen . Reaction Engines' answer is a novel precooler . heat-exchanger Schematic of the
A few updates for you…
Over at Marc Boucher’s Space Elevator Reference (THE original Space Elevator website), Marc tells us that “The European Spaceward Association has made available a summary report from the recent 4th Luxembourg Carbon Nanotechnology and Space Elevator Systems as well as the book of abstracts.“ Full details and links can be found [...]
An article appeared today on NASA.gov about the detection of “free-floating planets.” These planets may have formed around a central star, like the planets in our Solar System did, but due to some gravitational interaction during their star system’s formation the planets escaped their stars. These Jovian planets, which may outnumber stars in our galaxy, [...]
In the may Space Energy News eNewsletter, it references a January, 2011 article in the Japan newspaper Daily Yomiuri Online. It talks about an experiment testing the feasibility of space-based solar power generation;
The technology would start by generating electricity from sunlight in space, convert the power into microwaves and then send it to Earth, the [...]
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Followup : City lights from space The storm below The galaxy may swarm with billions of wandering planets A new result from astronomers who have spent years peering toward the center of the Milky Way has led to a startling conclusion : there may be billions of Jupiter-sized planets wandering the space between the stars unbound by the gravity of a parent sun . In fact , there may be nearly twice as many of these free floating planets as there are stars themselves in our galaxy and they may even outnumber planets orbiting stars The study published in Nature is the result of the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
Here’s an animation that just showed up in my FeedDemon reader - 8 animals riding on a Space Elevator, part of a United Nations project:
“The Animal Conference on the Environment” multimedia project was launched in 1997 during the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Kyoto, Japan. [...]