Company Plans Suborbital Launches Using MiG Fighter
Updated: 2012-02-29 19:59:11
Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Norway’s Andøya Rocket Range Looks for Renaissance Company Plans Suborbital Launches Using MiG Fighter Posted by Doug Messier on February 29, 2012, at 11:59 am in News Tags : Premier Space Systems suborbital flights suborbital research Comments : no responses 0 Comments Premier Space Systems' Mig-21UM jet during a test flight . Credit : Premier Space Systems I saw an interesting presentation at NSRC yesterday by Scott Powell and Arif Karabeyoglu yesterday on a new plan to launch suborbital payloads using jet . aircraft Their company , Premier Space Systems is developing a system that uses Soviet-era MiG-21UM to air launch payloads weighing up to 45 kg 99 pounds The company is
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Earthshine – a poetic, fanciful word for the soft, faint glow on the Moon when the light from the Sun is reflected from the Earth’s surface, onto the dark part of the Moon. And as unlikely as it might seem, astronomers have used Earthshine to verify there’s life in the Universe: Us. While we already [...]
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Discovery News - Space News: The Milky Way should have a greater diversity of terrestrial planets than we can imagine, and truly Earth-like planets could be a small subset of this population.
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 29, 2012 XCOR Aerospace gets another 5 million in funding XCOR Aerospace announced today that it recently closed a 5 million round of equity funding . The round , combined with cash on hand plus anticipated and existing contracts , should fund the company through production of its Lynx Mark I Suborbital . vehicle The financing included participation of new and previous investors . Among them are Esther Dyson , Pete Ricketts co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and several top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and former venture . capitalists We have chosen to announce this wonderful news at the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference here in Silicon Valley because we believe the future of commercial space access will be
It may be one of the best images from Cassini yet this year! Cloud-covered Titan and tiny Prometheus (can you see it just above the rings on the right?) are literally dwarfed by their parent Saturn in an image captured on Jan. 5, 2012. Prometheus’ pinpoint shadow can also be seen on Saturn’s cloud tops, [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 Assembly Now Complete for Late March or Early April Launch Universe Today Today SpaceX today released an image of the fully assembled Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket inside their facility at Cape . Canaveral This means the first test launch of a commercially built spacecraft to the International Space Station is just a bit closer . In a press conference earlier this month , NASA’s Mike Suffredini said SpaceX’s launch would be no earlier than March 20. There are no big problems being worked but a lot of little things to wrap up , 8221 he said . I wouldn’t hold my breath , as it is a challenging date , but I would guess we’ll fly within a couple of weeks of that date . We’ll hold
, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 Levelized Current and Future Costs of Nuclear , Solar and Fossil Fuels There is a lengthy analysis at solar cell central of how projected costs of solar power could get to the range of costs for coal and natural . gas Nextbigfuture has looked at detailed comparisons of energy costs many . times In South Korea and China with 5 financing costs , nuclear power can get down to a price of 29-32 per MWh or 2.9 to 3.2 cents per . KWh China , India , and other countries with high GDP growth and development are where the vast majority of new power is being built . For solar or any new power to displace an established power plant then the cost would have be below the operating . costs Coal and natural gas can get to
Changing seasons in Mars’ northern hemisphere brings a change in the weather, and the clouds have rolled in to cover part of the polar surface in this intriguing image from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. (...)Read the rest of Today’s Martian Weather: Partly Cloudy (122 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Technology Review hopes for significant new solar technology for 52 cents per watt but China Tier 2 PV Modules already at 80 to 96 cents per watt MIT Technology Review identifies early-stage technologies that , if employed together , could reduce the cost of making solar panels to 52 cents per . watt At 52 cents per watt , assuming similar cost reductions for installation and equipment such as inverters , solar power would cost six cents per kilowatt-hour in sunny areas of the U.S . 8212 less than the average cost of electricity in the U.S . today . Solar power in sunny areas now costs roughly 15 cents per . kilowatt-hour This is the same kind of thinking that caused the Solyndra loan default . Solyndra was
Today SpaceX today released an image of the fully assembled Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket inside their facility at Cape Canaveral. This means the first test launch of a commercially built spacecraft to the International Space Station is just a bit closer. The exact date of the launch has not yet been announced after [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Startram could usher in era of low-cost space travel Next Big Future has covered the Startram concept in detail before The GEN 1 concept involves using long , evacuated tunnels to accelerate unmanned payloads to orbital velocity . In theory , this concept could bring launch costs to LEO down to 50 dollar per kilogram . A more ambitious GEN 1.5 system could would take longer and greater resources to develop but could also put humans into orbit for a similar per-kilogram cost . In an interview with Sander Olson , Startram visionary James Powell discusses why he believes that the concept is viable , and how it could be developed within twenty years for 40 billion . James Powell Question 1 : How did the Startram
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 100,000 Nomad planets per star would not be that helpful for interstellar colonization Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets , wandering through space instead of orbiting a . star There may be 100,000 times more nomad planets in the Milky Way than stars , according to a new study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology KIPAC a joint institute of Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator . Laboratory If the planets were evenly distributed over a cubic light year then there would be one Pluto or larger size planet every 2200 astronomical units or one for every cubic two light week . volume This situation would not be like islands in the Pacific Ocean for
Robert Gonzalez from io9 is skeptical about the promotional claim made by Obayashi that they want to build a Space Elevator by 2050. While I indicated in my own post on the matter that I thought the Obayashi story was “more concept than engineering“, I’m not as skeptical as he is about the final end-product…
Mr. [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Debunking doomsday Dot Con 2012 Satellite tumblr While taking pictures for a night sky timelapse video , astrophotogrpaher Babak Tafreshi got a surprise in his field of view : a tumbling satellite He made a special video to highlight : it Pretty neat . A lot of people aren’t even aware that satellites are visible at night at all , but really on any given night dozens of satellites can be visible passing through the sky in fact the space station is so bright it’s actually now the third brightest object in the sky , surpassing even . Venus The satellites come in a lot of flavors 
I had several people email me today with the story that the Japanese Construction company Obayashi is making plans to build a space elevator.
The original story is in Obayashi’s Quarterly Magazine #53 and was announced in a Press Release which you can view online, in Japanese of course (you can use Google Chrome to view [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Moon bites multicolor Sun from space The two tails of Comet Garradd Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld As we find more and more planets orbiting other stars , we keep finding ones that are weirder and weirder . Enter GJ 1214b while much more massive than the Earth , it’s apparently mostly water Click to enhydronate this artists's illustration . The planet orbiting the star GJ 1214 at 40 light years from Earth was actually discovered in 2009 by the MEarth project which is looking for Earth-like planets around , cool , dim red dwarf stars . This is fertile ground for
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Breaking news : Heartland leaker is scientist Peter Gleick , says documents are all real Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld Moon bites multicolor Sun from space Earlier today , the Solar Dynamics Observatory had a front seat to a pretty nifty event : a partial eclipse of the Sun . For about 100 minutes , from its orbital viewpoint SDO saw the Moon pass in front of the Sun , partially blocking it . SDO semi-fictional mascot Camilla Corona created a really cool video of the event using footage from different wavelengths edited : together The false color images show
Over the past several years, I have posted multiple entries on this blog about Space Elevators and Legos. The two seem to go together like fish and chips or ham and eggs or Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. Oh, wait…
For several years now, the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) has had an annual competition (LASER) [...]
Now that ISEC has finally succeeded in publishing and releasing Volume 1 of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal, ISEC has now issued its official “Call for Papers” for Volume 2.
This is the official “Call for Papers” for the second issue of CLIMB, the Space Elevator Journal. We recently released our first issue of CLIMB - [...]
In the February 2, 2012 issue of Nature, there is an article entitled “Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs”. This article is, unfortunately, paywalled, but you can probably find a copy of the magazine at your local bookstore. The Editor’s Summary of the article is as follows:
Spider silk is one of nature’s [...]
Early last year, I posted about an iPad app developed by Mr. Shigeo Saito of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA). Recently I learned that he has ported this application from the iPad to the iPhone - so, if you have an iPhone (and, I think there are a few of you that do), then [...]