• Long March 3B rocket makes dual launch of two Beidou craft

    Updated: 2012-04-30 17:39:00
    Hyperbola: At 2050 on 29 April, a Chinese Long March 3B launched two Beidou spacecrat from Xichang using a new large fairing and a dual satellite adapter. This is the first dual launch of two major payloads for the launch vehicle. The satellites, Beidou 2C-M3 and Beidou 2C-M4 are part of the Chinese equilelent of the US GPS navigation satellite system.

  • 3rd Annual Next Generation Lunar Scientists and Engineers Workshop, July 16

    Updated: 2012-04-30 17:18:00
    : , Monday , April 30, 2012 3rd Annual Next Generation Lunar Scientists and Engineers Workshop , July 16 The 3rd annual Next Generation Lunar Scientists Engineers NGLSE Workshop will be held on Monday , July 16, 2012 at the NASA Ames Research Center ARC preceding the NASA Lunar Science Forum This one-day workshop for graduate students and early career professionals offers the opportunity for participants to network with other students early career professionals , and will specifically include a media training workshop . The purpose of this group is to engage and develop the next generation of lunar scientists and engineers , and to enable their successful involvement in current planning for the exploration of the . Moon For more details , visit : http : nextgenlunar.arc.nasa.gov or email

  • Mars Rover Roadtrip: Death Valley Stands In for Red Planet This Week

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:36:33
    SPACE.com: The chief scientist for NASA's next Mars rover is taking a handful of journalists out to California's Death Valley.

  • The Space Show this week

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:34:19
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 12 NewSpace Log 11 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 Space Access Society Phoenix , AZ April 12-14, 2012 Spacecraft Technology Expo Los Angeles , CA May 8-9, 2012 ISDC 2012 Washington , . D.C May 24-28, 2012 3rd European Space Tourism Conference Royal Aeronautical Society London , UK June 19, 2012 NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Mountain View , CA July 26-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options

  • Planetary Resources: More Than Just Asteroids

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:29:35
    NASA Watch : Ask an Expert: Explorer's lessons for asteroid miners, USA Today "No dummies, the firm has some NASA funding already for their development, reports Keith Cowing of NASAWatch. And a recent Forbes pieces hints that they may be stalking the remote-sensing industry with these small telescopes, ones that might eyeball our planet with even more ease than they spot passing asteroids." Is Planetary Resources Already a NASA Contractor? (Yes), earlier post

  • SpaceX Static Fire Test Today Prepares for Launch Next Week

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:29:00
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  • NASA OIG Finds Problems With ARMD Grants

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:13:32
    OIG: NASA's Use of Research Announcement Awards for Aeronautics Research "Based on our sample results, we estimate that ARMD's 447 NRA awards during this 5-year period contained $25.2 million in unallowable or unsupported costs. Moreover, we project that by addressing the deficiencies we identified NASA could avoid awarding approximately $3.6 million in unallowable and/or unsupported costs annually in ARMD NRA awards."

  • NASA's Huge Mars Rover Curiosity: 11 Amazing Facts

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:00:13
    SPACE.com: A look at the Curiosity rover's science instruments and what they can do.

  • Planetary Resources: More Than Just Asteroids

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:28:55
    : Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Planetary Resources : More Than Just Asteroids By Keith Cowing on April 30, 2012 11:28 AM View Comments Ask an Expert : Explorer's lessons for asteroid miners USA Today No dummies , the firm has some NASA funding already for their development , reports Keith Cowing of NASAWatch . And a recent Forbes pieces hints that they may be stalking the remote-sensing

  • Carnival of Space #247

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:27:26
    Astroblog: Carnival of Space #247 is now up at the Next Big Future. There's drinking coffee in zero gravity, double stars, asteroid mining and much, much more. Head on over for a read.

  • UrtheCast's HD Video: Real Product Or Smoke and Mirrors?

    Updated: 2012-04-30 13:45:37
    UrtheCast's HD Video From Space Station: Real Product or Hyped Vaporware? "A Canadian company called UrtheCast has begun to claim that it is going to place the first live HD video feed on the International Space Station in a few months. Despite all of their PR and hype, NASA isn't so sure that there actually is a real product and service - as advertised by UrtheCast."

  • Waterway robbery

    Updated: 2012-04-30 12:34:00
    Method Expedition 30 Lands in Kazakhstan Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Waterway robbery post from New Scientist Environment on 30 April 2012 08:34:00 AM . New Scientist Environment Countries must be stopped from seizing their neighbours' rivers Read The Full Article : http : feeds.newscientist.com c 749 f 424048 s 1edec5ae l 0L0Snewscientist0N0Cart icle0Cmg214286230B20A0A0Ewaterway0Erobbery0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fenvironment story01.htm Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski Powered by blogdig.net Cool Stuff Have A Great science BLOG Add Your Blog To

  • Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft

    Updated: 2012-04-30 12:29:14
    Method New form of Mars lava flow dicovered Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft post from Bad Astronomy on 30 April 2012 08:29:14 AM . Bad Astronomy One of the single greatest advantages of the modern age of astronomy , in my opinion , is that digital images from telescopes and spacecraft and telescopes on spacecraft have been placed in the hands of everyone . It can take years of[ . Read The Full Article : http : feedproxy.google.com r BadAstronomyBlog 3 aZ00WVhRssQ Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski

  • Studies of 'Amboy' Rock Continue as Solar Energy Improves

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:38
    Method NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Studies of Amboy' Rock Continue as Solar Energy Improves post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:38 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Apr 30, 2012 Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production . The solar insolation is improving and the rover has benefitted from some small , dust cleaning

  • Expectation of extraterrestrial life built more on optimism than evidence

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:38
    Method Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From Greeley Haven Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Expectation of extraterrestrial life built more on optimism than evidence post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:38 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Princeton NJ SPX Apr 30, 2012 Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets' respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like life on those worlds . But Princeton University researchers have found that the

  • NASA Awards Safety and Mission Assurance Contract to ARES

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:38
    Method India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Awards Safety and Mission Assurance Contract to ARES post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:38 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Greenbelt MD SPX Apr 30, 2012 ARES Technical Services has been selected by NASA to provide safety and mission assurance services to Goddard Space Flight Center's SMA Directorate under the Safety and Mission Assurance Services SMAS contract . ARES and its teammates will provide system safety , mission assurance , risk and

  • 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method Near-death , rehashed Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Apr 30, 2012 At 10:31 p.m . PDT April 27, 1:31 p.m . EDT NASA's Mars Science Laboratory , carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover , will be within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface . At that moment , the mission has about 119 million miles 191 million kilometers to go and is closing at a speed of 13,000 mph 21,000

  • India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method Henry Darcy 1803 1858 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Sriharikota , India IANS Apr 30, 2012 India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV successfully , a top official said Thursday . Speaking to reporters after the successful launch of indigenously built Radar Imaging Satellite I

  • Expedition 30 Lands in Kazakhstan

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method 3 Simple Steps to Celebrate STEM and National Poetry Month Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Expedition 30 Lands in Kazakhstan post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Houston TX SPX Apr 30, 2012 The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan Friday at 7:45 a.m . EDT . They undocked from the International Space Station at 4:18 a.m . officially ending their stay . The Soyuz performed a deorbit burn at 6:49

  • New form of Mars lava flow dicovered

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method TED : Liz Diller : A giant bubble for debate Liz Diller 2012 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . New form of Mars lava flow dicovered post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Tempe AZ SPX Apr 30, 2012 High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells . Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth , but never before on Mars . The discovery , made by Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan , is announced in a paper published

  • European Google Lunar X Prize Teams Call For Science Payloads

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method New form of Mars lava flow dicovered Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . European Google Lunar X Prize Teams Call For Science Payloads post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Paris SPX Apr 30, 2012 The race for the 30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is creating science opportunities for European lunar researchers . Four teams competing for the competition presented their plans at the European Lunar Symposium in Berlin last week . Representatives from Hungary's Team Puli , Italy's AMALIA mission , and European

  • Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From Greeley Haven

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method Neutrinos : messengers from the underworld Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From Greeley Haven post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Apr 30, 2012 This mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012 shows the windswept vista northward left to northeastward right from the location where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth Martian winter , an outcrop informally named Greeley Haven . Opportunity's Panoramic Camera Pancam took the

  • Study finds twist to the story of the number line

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method Study finds twist to the story of the number line Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Study finds twist to the story of the number line post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News San Diego CA SPX Apr 30, 2012 Tape measures . Rulers . Graphs . The gas gauge in your car , and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power . The number line and its cousins notations that map numbers onto space and often represent magnitude are everywhere . Most adults in industrialized societies are so fluent at using

  • Surviving the conditions on Mars

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method EXERCISING THE G-SPOT Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Surviving the conditions on Mars post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Berlin , Germany SPX Apr 30, 2012 Alpine and polar lichens could also survive on Mars . Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center simulated the conditions on Mars for 34 days and exposed various microorganisms to this environment . During this period , the lichens and bacteria continued to demonstrate measurable activity and carry out photosynthesis , says Jean-Pierre de

  • Astrium and Hisdesat to establish radar satellite constellation to improve coverage and access

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method 3 Simple Steps to Celebrate STEM and National Poetry Month Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Astrium and Hisdesat to establish radar satellite constellation to improve coverage and access post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Paris SPX Apr 30, 2012 Astrium Services and Hisdesat , the Spanish government satellite service operator , have signed a framework agreement for a joint technology development project with the aim of establishing a constellation approach for the radar satellites TerraSAR-X and PAZ . The

  • Russia to Send Manned Mission to Moon by 2030

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method New form of Mars lava flow dicovered Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia to Send Manned Mission to Moon by 2030 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow RIA Novosti Apr 30, 2012 Russia is planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on its website on Friday . According to the Russian space strategy published on the Roscosmos website , Moscow has set several waypoints for its space exploration activities : 2015, 2020, 2030 and the period after 2030.

  • NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources

    Updated: 2012-04-30 07:16:37
    Method Exceedingly cool Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 April 2012 03:16:37 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pittsburgh , PA SPX Apr 30, 2012 Astrobotic Technology Inc . has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon . The ice could yield water , oxygen , methane and rocket propellant to dramatically reduce the cost of space exploration . Astrobotic seeks the immense resources

  • Henry Darcy (1803 - 1858)

    Updated: 2012-04-30 05:00:00
    Method Henry Darcy 1803 1858 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Henry Darcy 1803 1858 post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 30 April 2012 01:00:00 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries Hydrology , hydrogeology , soil science , civil engineering , petroleum engineering , and chemical engineering all benefit from Henry Darcy s discoveries and innovations in fluid flow.Darcy was born on June 10, 1803 and spent most of his life in France . He was educated in science and engineering a Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 19628 Henry-Darcy-1803-1858 from_rss=1 Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to

  • House Appropriators Note CASIS Delays

    Updated: 2012-04-28 00:31:45
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy House Appropriators Note CASIS Delays By Keith Cowing on April 27, 2012 8:31 PM View Comments House Appropriations Commitee FY 2013 : CASIS and ISS excerpt An important element in the decision making about the long term status of ISS is whether it can demonstrate sufficient research value to justify the continuation of its operating budget . Currently , the fraction

  • High Altitude Flyover of New York by Enterprise

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:35:17
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy High Altitude Flyover of New York by Enterprise By Keith Cowing on April 27, 2012 2:35 PM View Comments Keith's : note Looks like the T-38 chase plane got some nice high altitude shots during the fly over of New York City this morning . Larger view More images below send in yours if you . like Categories Shuttle News Tags enterprise space shuttle Tweet High Altitude

  • Commercial Space Watch: Spacecraft Facilities

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:34:20
    : Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Commercial Space Watch : Spacecraft Facilities By Marc Boucher on April 27, 2012 12:34 PM View Comments BRPH : The Old and the New in Spacecraft Facilities Commercial Space Watch Switching out a spacecraft maintenance facility is definitely not an easy task . Besides the obvious requirements to contain toxic fuels and provide enough power , there is also the work

  • Enterprise @NYC

    Updated: 2012-04-27 15:21:27
    Photo: Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York "Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen off in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight."

  • Blue Origin's ISS Crew Vehicle

    Updated: 2012-04-27 01:23:23
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Blue Origin's ISS Crew Vehicle By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 9:23 PM View Comments Blue Origin Tests Design of Next-Generation Spacecraft Blue Origin successfully tested the design of its next-generation Space Vehicle , completing a series of wind tunnel tests to refine the aerodynamic characteristics of the spacecraft's unique biconic shape . The tests were

  • NASA Aeronautics Hearing

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:13:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA Aeronautics Hearing By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 1:13 PM View Comments NASA Aeronautics Research Critical to Maintaining America's Lead in Global Aviation Market Democrats Urge Continued Support for Aeronautics Research Because of the lengthy gestation period needed to move from concept to deployment , industry has often been reluctant to apply resources

  • House Approps Take on NASA's FY 2013 Budget (Update)

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:02:19
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy House Approps Take on NASA's FY 2013 Budget Update By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 1:02 PM View Comments House Appropriations Commitee FY 2013 : Commercial crew excerpt The Committee believes that many of these concerns would be addressed by an immediate downselect to a single competitor or , at most , the execution of a leader-follower paradigm in which NASA

  • Space Marketing Wars

    Updated: 2012-04-26 13:52:54
    Space Marketing Campaigns Heat Up , Commercial Space Watch (With 3 videos) "United Launch Alliance has launched another salvo in the space marketing campaign war with its latest video title "What We Believe". Dan Collins, Chief Operating Office, opens the video saying it's not about the "smoke and fire", which coincidentally is what Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne called their marketing video four months ago.</em"

  • Busy weekend for Space Apps Challenge!

    Updated: 2012-04-26 11:20:07
    Busy weekend for Space Apps Challenge Space blog Busy weekend for Space Apps Challenge Last weekend over 2,000 software developers , engineers , hackers and space enthusiasts gathered at 26 different locations across the world to partake in the NASA Space Apps Challenge The two day Challenge took on real world problems and tried to solve them using freely available open-source data . It promoted collaborative development and gave civilians the chance to improve life on Earth . SSTL sponsored one of the UK events which was hosted by the International Space Innovation Centre ISIC and took place in its Harwell , Oxford facility . The international effort is reported to be a resounding success , with more than 100 solutions developed in under 48 hours . The UK’s Met Office took a moment off

  • NASA's Tangled Human Spaceflight Web Presence

    Updated: 2012-04-26 02:40:52
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA's Tangled Human Spaceflight Web Presence By Keith Cowing on April 25, 2012 10:40 PM View Comments Keith's : note One night in January I got frustrated trying to find something on NASA's Human Spaceflight website(s So , I decided to map them . As you can see from this chart enlarge NASA's HSF web presence like much of NASA's sprawling cyber infrastructure is an

  • Wanted: Meteor Imagery

    Updated: 2012-04-26 01:23:10
    NASA Asks Public to Provide Videos and Photos of Meteor (with photos of fresh finds) "NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created sonic booms that were heard over a wide area at 7:51 a.m. PDT Sunday, April 22, 2012."

  • NASA Technology That Can't Link To Itself

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:42:50
    <img src="http://images.spaceref.com/news/arrow.gif" alt="" Keith's note: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist has no link to NASA Tech Briefs.  NASA Tech Briefs does not link to NASA OCT. In fact, I did a search of the source HTML code on the NASA Techbriefs home page. There are no links to anything at NASA.gov whatsoever. Yet this page features the NASA logo. Baffling.

  • Photos of Mexico's erupting volcano

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:21:59
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Photos of Mexico's erupting volcano by mdr on Apr . 25th , 2012 Check out these recent photos of Mexico's Popocatepetl letting off some steam and plenty of other volcanic material via the Denver . Post : Average Select rating Poor Okay Good Great Awesome No votes

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Selections 2011-2012

    Updated: 2012-04-24 19:25:50
    The California Space Grant Consortium has selected the following students for the 2011-2012 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, which engages the future STEM* Workforce in science and aerospace related research projects. Students were selected based on the following four criteria: Academic Achievement (including GPA) Proposed Research Project Letter of Recommendation Leadership Qualities *STEM = Science, Technology, [...]

  • Lyrid meteor shower begins

    Updated: 2012-04-20 22:09:13
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help On this day Lyrid meteor shower begins by mdr on Apr . 20th , 2012 The best viewing time begins before dawn starting April 21, and continues over the next couple days , so get out there tonight if the sky is clear in your area . Right now it looks pretty good for us in

  • SSTL sponsors global space brainstorm

    Updated: 2012-04-20 11:31:25
    SSTL sponsors global space brainstorm Space blog SSTL sponsors global space brainstorm Tomorrow , space enthusiasts across the world will get together to try and work out solutions and applications that space technology can provide for . mankind In case you hadn’t already guessed , we’re talking about NASA’s Space Apps Challenge a 2 day codeathon-style extravaganza aimed at promoting open source development and partnership . Events will take place across all 7 continents , and even in space on the International Space Station . It will give the world’s best engineers , designers and developers a chance to solve some of the world’s greatest problems using freely available open . data Whereas yesterday’s space industry was geared towards trumping the competition with superior technology ,

  • Live longer. Eat buckyballs.

    Updated: 2012-04-19 21:08:54
    . . Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Apr 19 2012 Live longer . Eat . buckyballs by kso 0 comments in Structure of Matter Life Science and Human Organism Buckyballs are tiny spherical molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms arranged in what looks like a soccer ball , or a truncated icosahedron for those shape fans

  • Jim Arnold Lecture 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-19 01:00:30
    On Friday, May 4, 2012 the 2012 Jim Arnold lecture featuring Planetary Scientist Ralph Harvey, Ph.D. of the Department of Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University will take place. He will be speaking on “Antarctic Meteorites: Sifting the Sands of the Solar System”. Abstract: Since 1969 nearly 50,000 meteorite specimens have been systematically recovered from [...]

  • Space shuttle Discovery flies over DC on way to final resting place

    Updated: 2012-04-17 22:10:03
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help On this day Space shuttle Discovery flies over DC on way to final resting place by mdr on Apr . 17th , 2012 The space shuttle Discovery flew over Washington DC on the back of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft before making its final landing at Dulles Airport . The shuttle will be

  • Orangutans engineer nests

    Updated: 2012-04-17 21:31:33
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Research findings Orangutans engineer nests by mdr on Apr . 17th , 2012 Orangutan : On break at the job . site Courtesy Eleifert via Wikipedia Orangutans in the jungles of Sumatra have been observed carefully engineering the construction of their nests by selecting thick ,

  • Nature's Week in Review: April 16, 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-17 16:23:09
    : Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Nature's Week in Review : April 16, 2012 by tcnaturalist on Apr . 17th , 2012 Twin Cities Naturalist Courtesy Twin Cities Naturalist Lilacs are blooming , ospreys are returning to nests , spring continues to delight . Check out this week's Monday Phenology :

  • STS-1 Launch

    Updated: 2012-04-13 14:45:21
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help On this day STS-1 Launch by Joe on Apr . 13th , 2012 STS-1 : In this image , the two solid rocket boosters are aglow after being . jettisoned Courtesy NASA April 12, 1981 was the date of the first space shuttle launch . I remember it . From : NASA On April 12, 1981, astronauts

  • XKCD chart with deep thoughts about lakes and oceans

    Updated: 2012-04-12 23:49:12
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links XKCD chart with deep thoughts about lakes and oceans by mdr on Apr . 12th , 2012 Want to see how the Titanic s final resting place at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean compares to that of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior Or get a real sense of just how deep

  • Why didn't people on the Titanic panic?

    Updated: 2012-04-12 17:39:47
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Amazing fact Why didn't people on the Titanic panic by Shana on Apr . 12th , 2012 Compared to another wreck around the same time , passengers on the Titanic were much more calm and composed . According to economist David Savage , that's because the Titanic sank so slowly that

  • UK supports space innovation overseas

    Updated: 2012-04-12 17:12:55
    UK supports space innovation overseas Space blog UK supports space innovation overseas Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts has announced a 6 million co-funded grant for commercial products and services developments from space-based systems and technology . SSTL is leading one of four projects that will benefit , as part of the National Space Technology Programme NSTP delivered through the UK Space Agency and the Technology Strategy Board TSB The funding was announced as a trade delegation including the Prime Minister , Minster Willetts , and SSTL Executive Chairman Sir Martin Sweeting , visit Japan . Among the key themes of the trip is increased space research collaboration between the two . nations SSTL has previously collaborated with Japan through their Disaster

  • Did a 'cold mirage' help sink Titanic?

    Updated: 2012-04-11 18:31:22
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth The Space Debate Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Research findings Did a cold mirage' help sink Titanic by Thor on Apr . 11th , 2012 The New York Times reports that new science findings that of a cold mirage may have played a factor in the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago this week . Here's the full . report : Average

  • SSTL Propels Future Space Engineers

    Updated: 2012-04-03 16:35:18
    SSTL Propels Future Space Engineers Space blog SSTL Propels Future Space Engineers This year , SSTL is once again supporting the Engineering Education Scheme EES by sponsoring a team of budding space engineers from the nearby Royal Grammar School RGS Guildford . The EES is operated by the Education Development Trust’s EDT which is the largest provider of Science , Technology , Engineering , and Mathematics STEM engagement and development schemes for British school-goers . SSTL believes that such programmes are invaluable , in helping to counteract the 40 decline in the up-take of careers in engineering and related disciplines in the UK in recent years , and in the nurture of future space engineers . The trust’s schemes provide opportunities for 11-21 year olds to develop research projects

  • NASA’s National Community College Aerospace Scholars Program Now Accepting Applications (Through June 6, 2012)

    Updated: 2012-04-03 05:20:06
    NCAS is an interactive, online learning experience where students complete Web-based lessons during the summer and travel to NASA for a three-day experience in late fall where they work with NASA engineers and scientists developing a proposal for a fictitious Martian rover. Who is Eligible? Community college students from across the nation (must be US citizens). Who pays [...]

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