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I just dumped a bunch of homework on backtrax. lol
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=18392
And your next ! I'm just not quite sure where your interest lies yet. What do I dump on you ????? But when I figure it out, I promiss not to have any mercy on you.......
Space.com hash bashed that project from the start. If you read the follow up article, they raise the ? as to whether the project is any good at all. Some of these new writers don't know where Space.com has stood in the past.
That's been going on for some time. It's just been going on behind closed doors. It was seeing 50.000 people show up at the first X-prise contest that convinced me that it's time we stopped hiding in closets.
I'm not quite sure I follow which project you are referring too. I was following the one realbiz posted. That was in 2003 and the funding was cut.
The combining of investors to secure projects has been in the plans all along.
The legal footwork for Lagrange Holdings started a couple months ago. Tight budgets due to our economy has a lot of things going slow, but they are still moving forward.
I see that I have my homework on these subjects to do some very interesting subject matter kismetkid Thanx for all you are doing I must say bravo and keep it coming //Peace Out
could china wind up owning the moon and mars?
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/china-research-and-development-by.html
tom bearden background on wiki. he's retired military with an engineering degree and an ms, but his phd is ???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?title=Thomas_E._Bearden
the paper by tom bearden on anti gravity
http://www.cheniere.org/books/part4/index.html
i am still working my way through this. he seems to be redifining a lot of terminology. main stream science dissapproves. he also claims to have a zero-point energy generator with no moving parts in development.
I think we could get many like minded people together and voice our thoughts to many more people and exponentially spread the News that US private investors could lead the way raise funds and interest in the future Space program. We as a team could have a say in the development of a space program that could take mankind to other worlds ,colonies, spacestations etc... Anyone have interest here please reply .
that's fascinating. if one formed a company, a small exclusive group of stockholders, we could bid on that and get funding to come up with a design that we could either vend or build on our own. ( are you listening admiral? this may be what you are looking for. ) either way it would give us a base of operations that could lead to access to space.
it's daft to cut nasa's budget, but it's also daft to allow nasa to continue operating the way they have in the past. space travel and exploration should not be exclusively for any select group. and nasa is very exclusive in the way they operate. now they are/seem to be just another arm of the military.
corporate development of space has its own dangers, mainly in allowing so much power and wealth to belong to an institution that exists solely for profit and which is basically immortal.
i never joined space.com. i get an rss feed through yahoo.
Maybe I should say "TECH MEDIA NETWORK "
Were you one of those people who got their personal infomation downloaded by Space.com then locked out of their forums ?
Did you read where the republicans want to cut NASA's budget ? But they want to take money away from planetary Sciences and use it to support private companies.
It won't be long when they'll have to change those names from Microsoft and Goog to La Grange and Marinis. The Gov is finally realizing this is not something they can stop. The writers for Space.com don't want to acknowledge Lagrange because the followers have been quite vocal about the need to exploit the mineral resources of our Solar System and the need for an independent government in space.
I think this quote from Jason who is doing quite well on the NASA website speaks for itself.
"corporate sponsors for mars trip? " What an awesome perspective funding and planning created by private entities instead of government run agencies // And for profit as well as other incentives Great DD here THANX
We need to do something so all those posters locked out of Space.com can find us. May I'll ask Ihub for some advice.
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Yes I cannot gain access either it says to check spelling kinda odd Let me know if you get through THANX
frustration!!!
i can't get this website. not sure if it has been removed, the name has been changed, or access is blocked. apparently it is a nasa site about faster than light travel or time travel or both.
anyway i can't get to it.
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/TM-107289.htm
25 Years since the Challenger misshap and total loss // God Rest those souls // I say We pray today and look foward as those brave souls would want US to, GOD BLESS and THANX BIZZZ
the paper is part of a class somewhere. pretty exotic. if you put that link into google search, a lot of similiar articles will come up.
Where did you dig this research up? anti gravity research involving wormholes combined with UFO tech??? WOW to say the least KID amazing math and theory I must reread myself THANX REALBIZ
a paper on wormhole theory ( math included. ) there is a reference to nasa trying to manipulate inertial fields, but i have not read that yet.
http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/wwormholew.htm
I say We need a little more info here first // Please do some DD as I will and than We can Repost here TIA
forget spaceflight. gofor copying yourself. water, dna and magnetic fields. one of the stranger articles i have read. ( link to another ihubber )
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59126193
Nice info ... Wow I say ... I will follow up myself with any and all research I find...Thanx again
Project Daedalus: A Plan for an Interstellar Mission
Guest contributor Richard Obousy explains how a fusion-based technology has inspired a starship's design.
Guest contributor Richard Obousy is a member of the Tau Zero Foundation, a non-profit group of scientists dedicated to the incremental advancement of interstellar spaceflight. Richard is the current leader of Project Icarus, one of the Foundation's key initiatives and a project that builds on a landmark nuclear pulse propulsion study from the 1970s: Project Daedalus.
Project Daedalus was a feasibility study for an interstellar mission, using 1970s capabilities and credible extrapolations for near-future technology.
One of the major objectives was to establish whether interstellar flight could be realized within established science and technology. The conclusion was that it was possible, but that it would be very difficult.
The potential of fission/fusion power as a propulsion mechanism that would allow for interstellar flight has been recognized since the first half of the 20th century. The idea was initially proposed by Stanislaw Ulam at Los Alamos in 1947, and then in 1958 Ted Taylor initiated Project Orion.
Just over a decade later, Alan Bond of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) believed that the time was right to investigate the feasibility of fusion for an interstellar mission. He discussed the idea with other members of the Society, and Project Daedalus was born.
SLIDE SHOW: The Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft would be a huge vehicle, but how would it measure up to a Saturn V rocket or the Empire State Building?
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
Project Daedalus took just over 5 years -- the project began on January 10th, 1973 and the final reports were published May 15th, 1978. Approximately 100,000 person hours were invested into the project by 13 core designers and numerous consultants.
The heart of Daedalus was the fusion pulse propulsion engine, in which small pellets of fusion fuel would be injected at high velocity into a reaction chamber and ignited by high-energy electron beams. Conceptually this is not vastly different from a conventional internal combustion engine, in which small droplets of gasoline are injected into a combustion chamber and ignited.
The resulting fusion reaction products in the Daedalus reaction chamber would be channeled axially rearward from the main vehicle by a number of field coils acting as a magnetic nozzle. This ejecta would be responsible for an overall momentum transfer to the vehicle -- much like the exhaust from a rocket engine propels a space vehicle forwards -- mediated by magnetic fields interacting with the reaction chamber.
An Interstellar Flyby
Daedalus was to be a two stage spacecraft, with stage one carrying 46,000 tonnes of fuel and stage two carrying 4000 tonnes. After a total boost phase of nearly four years, it would be traveling at its top speed of 12.2 percent the speed of light, and would reach its target (Barnard's Star, located about six light years away) in 50 years.
Daedalus was to be an unmanned fly-by probe, and so would only stay in the target solar system for a relatively short period of time (about two days to cross the equivalent of the solar system), during which it would gather important scientific data from the target solar system.
One of the notable features of the Daedalus design was its use of Helium-3 in the fuel pellets. Helium-3 is one of the most difficult of the fusion fuels to ignite, requiring a higher ignition temperature when compared to other fusion fuels. However, its energy release is among the highest of the various fusion fuels, and thus leads to the greatest thrust.
Solar System Mining Operation
Helium-3 is incredibly rare on Earth; however, there is strong evidence for concentrations of between 0.01-0.05 ppm (parts-per-million) on the lunar surface. Additionally, vast quantities of He3 are known to exist in the atmosphere of the gas giants.
The Daedalus mission involved a plan to mine the atmosphere of Jupiter. This requirement in itself indicates the need for a vast solar system-wide civilization with abundant capabilities and a massive space-based infrastructure, and so makes the challenge of building a 'Daedalus Class' spacecraft great.
Despite these difficulties, what is particularly enticing about the Daedalus design is that it is within the realms of credible science, since no new physics is required. This in itself does not imply that the task of building Daedalus would be easy, as the engineering and economical costs are quite staggering, but it is certainly encouraging that this design could be built, given sufficient ambition.
The Son of Daedalus
Project Icarus, which began on September 30th, 2009, was inspired by Daedalus, and is a 21st century attempt to re-examine the problem of interstellar propulsion with the benefit of over thirty years of scientific progress and understanding since the original project. Broadly stated, the purpose of Project Icarus is as follows:
1. To design a credible interstellar probe that is a concept design for a potential mission in the coming centuries.
2. To allow a direct technology comparison with Daedalus and provide an assessment of the maturity of fusion-based space propulsion for future precursor missions.
3. To generate greater interest in the real term prospects for interstellar precursor missions that are based on credible science.
4. To motivate a new generation of scientists to be interested in designing space missions that go beyond our solar system.
Of course, Icarus is remembered from Greek mythology as the figure who flew too close to the sun, melting his wings. At first glance, this name might be considered a peculiar choice for a spacecraft. However, it makes much more sense when considering the following quote, which describes an important aspect of the spirit of Project Icarus:
In ancient days two aviators procured to themselves wings. Daedalus flew safely through the middle air and was duly honoured on his landing. Icarus soared upwards to the sun till the wax melted which bound his wings and his flight ended in fiasco. In weighing their achievements, there is something to be said for Icarus. The classical authorities tell us that he was only "doing a stunt", but I prefer to think of him as the man who brought to light a serious constructional defect in the flying-machines of his day. So, too, in Science. Cautious Daedalus will apply his theories where he feels confident they will safely go; but by his excess of caution their hidden weaknesses remain undiscovered. Icarus will strain his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape. For the mere adventure? Perhaps partly; this is human nature. But if he is destined not yet to reach the sun and solve finally the riddle of its constitution, we may at least hope to learn from his journey some hints to build a better machine.
--From "Stars and Atoms," by Sir Arthur Eddington (Oxford University Press, 1927, p. 41)
http://news.discovery.com/space/tau-zero-project-daedalus-icarus-110119.html
I'm going to be tied up till maybe mid Feb.
Hi all anyone around here? I am just checking in I have been very busy myself I hope everyone had some fun ringing in the New Year //Space exploration is Mankinds Best first Pathway into the future IMHO//Peace All bizz
A New problem ...http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26263/?mod=related
Military Tech
Space Junk as Big a Threat as Space Weapons, Agency Warns
By Jeremy Hsu
Published December 23, 2010
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Trackable objects in orbit around Earth. Note: Size of debris is exaggerated relative to the Earth in this artist's interpretation.
What began as a minor trash problem in space has now developed into a full-blown threat. A recent space security report put the problem of debris on equal footing with weapons as a threat to the future use of space.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk -- including broken satellites, discarded rocket
stages and lost spacewalker tools -- now crowd the corridors of Earth orbit.
These objects could do serious damage to working spacecraft if they were to hit them, and might even pose a risk to people and property on the ground if they fall back to Earth and are large enough to survive re-entering the atmosphere.
The new Space Security 2010 report released by the Space Security Index, an international research consortium, represented space debris as a primary issue. Similar recognition of the orbital trash threat also emerged in the U.S. national space policy unveiled by President Obama in June 2010.
Such growing awareness of the space debris problem builds on stark warnings issued in past years by scientists and military commanders, experts said. It could also pave the way for U.S. agencies and others to better figure out how to clean up Earth orbit.
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"This is an important realization, because before that much of the security focus was on threats from hostile actors in space," Weeden explained. "This is the first [national policy] recognition that threats can come from the space environment and nonhostile events."
All those bits of garbage in space could eventually create a floating artificial barrier that endangers spaceflight for any nation, experts said.
The space debris swarm
Even fictional space navigator Han Solo might prefer to risk turbolaser blasts from Imperial starships rather than hazard Earth's growing cloud of space debris, where objects whiz by at up to 4.8 miles per second (7.8 km/s).
The possibility of a damaging collision between spacecraft and orbital junk only continues to grow with more functional and nonfunctional hardware flying above Earth. Both the International Space Station and space shuttle missions have been forced to dodge space debris in the past.
More than 21,000 objects larger than 4 inches (10 centimeters) in diameter are being tracked by the Department of Defense's U.S. Space Surveillance Network. Estimates suggest there are more than 300,000 objects larger than 0.4 inches (1 cm), not including several million smaller pieces.
"The shuttle was more likely to be wiped out by something you didn't see than something you were dodging," said Donald Kessler, a former NASA researcher and now an orbital debris and meteoroid consultant in Asheville, N.C.
But the problem has become much worse since Kessler began studying the issue decades ago with Burton Cour-Palais, a fellow NASA researcher. Their 1978 research described how the debris cloud might continue expanding on its own because of an ever-higher probability of collisions that built upon each past collision.
The Kessler Syndrome
That prediction, known as the Kessler Syndrome, may have already been realized.
China's intentional destruction of an aging weather satellite during a 2007 anti-satellite test created about 2,500 pieces of new debris in Earth orbit.
More recently, a U.S. Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Soviet Cosmos spacecraft were destroyed in an unintended head-on collision in 2009. That incident added more than 1,000 pieces of trackable debris to the mess, adding to the number of possible targets and therefore upping the chances of future collisions.
The overall trackable amount of space debris grew by about 15.6 percent, according to the Space Security 2010 report.
NASA and other U.S. agencies could use national space policy as a chance to aggressively pursue solutions, such as using spacecraft propelled by solar radiation (solar sails) or other objects to take down a few select pieces of debris, experts said.
"If we only bring down four objects per year, we can stabilize [the debris field] if we carefully select those most likely to contribute to debris," Kessler told SPACE.com.
Path to cleaner space
The national space policy shift shows that policymakers have finally begun to take action based on the work of Kessler and other researchers, Weeden said.
"This policy basically sets the playing field for what is to come," Weeden said. "It's an enabler, not the actual solution itself."
The United States and other countries could begin discussing voluntary codes of conduct about how to minimize space debris from new missions, as well as how to clean up old space debris.
But legally binding agreements remain politically unlikely, Weeden cautioned. More plausible is an agreement on a strictly volunteer basis that would require spacefaring countries to put peer pressure on one another to comply.
Change of tune
The criticism of past space weapons tests that have created space debris has already changed how countries plan their actions, said Joan Johnson-Freese, a space policy analyst at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
"When the United States tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon in 1985 by destroying its Solwind satellite, and China tested its ASAT in 2007, neither broke any 'rules,'" Johnson-Freese said in an e-mail. "But each created a substantial amount of space debris potentially dangerous to other spacecraft."
Both countries have since changed their policies, and said future tests will be characterized as "missile defense," aimed only at destroying targets that won't leave lingering debris, Johnson-Freese pointed out. "In terms of space debris, it is simply not in U.S. interests to pursue paths that encourage actions that result in debris creation."
Have a safe and Happy Holiday and a great New Year to all Cheers to 2011
Space Race Heats Up With Mini-Shuttle Spaceplane Design
It seems not everyone is content to let the legacy of the space shuttle fly away over yonder horizon.
Orbital Sciences Corp. has thrown its hat into NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program with a winged space plane concept very reminiscent of the Shuttle's design intended to ferry crews to and from the ISS.
The space plane design is a departure from prevailing capsule-based designs favored by SpaceX and other big contractors like Boeing and Lockheed. At about one-quarter the size of the space shuttles, the unnamed space plane has no engines like the shuttles, and it can only carry a crew of four.
Like the shuttles, it would ride into orbit on a rocket stack (specifically on an enhanced iteration of the Atlas V). It would dock with the ISS via a hatch in the rear, and after departing the ISS it would glide to a runway landing below.
Orbital sees a reusable space plane design as the cheaper and safer way to move crews to and from the ISS; its "blended lifting body" allows it to move from its orbital trajectory as it re-enters and place it's point of landing where the pilot wishes. Capsules, of course, come screaming through the atmosphere more or less at their orbital trajectory and rely on parachutes to soften the "splash down" and a recovery crew to locate and pick up the crew.
Both capsules and space planes have their advantages, and neither has a spotless safety record. But it will be interesting to see which mode NASA eventually selects for the next generation of ISS missions.
For one, capsules have been fairly reliable since the 1960s, but during the development of the shuttle program the military was keen to have a craft with "cross range" - that space plane capability to move out of orbital trajectory - for possible strategic purposes. The shuttle never flew militarily, but it would be notable if such a consideration still played a role in NASA's first post-Cold War crew vehicle.
Secondly, Orbital Sciences isn't the kind of independent, private, "new space" enterprise as, say, SpaceX. It's a consortium of defense and aviation heavy-hitters: Northrop would build the plane, and the rockets would be provided by United Launch Alliance (read: Boeing and Lockheed).
Of course, first Orbital has to build, launch, and prove out its space plane. SpaceX already has a comfortable head start, having already launched its Dragon crew capsule into orbit aboard its own Falcon 9 rocket and recovered the capsule intact. And SpaceX is wasting no time; the company plans to dock with the ISS on just its second full test-flight, expected sometime in the middle of next year. If it wasn't already, it's safe to consider the next space race well underway.
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One concept for protecting spacecraft from radiation //Magnetic shielding...http://www.thespacereview.com/article/308/1
Keep Updated about Spaceport America ....http://www.spaceportamerica.com/
SPACFirst U.S. commercial spaceport is taking shape
Project, to be finished in 2011, will allow for tourist space travel
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. Mark Greenberg
A flyover of New Mexico's Spaceport America shows the runway construction underway. By Leonard David
Space.com
updated 1/28/2010 2:48:37 PM ET 2010-01-28T19:48:37
Share Print Font: +-New Mexico's Spaceport America is no longer the stuff of fancy graphics.
The scene is now one of bulldozers and other heavy equipment. Loads of asphalt and concrete are being spread. The initial phase of building the rambling complex within remote desert scenery is quickening.
One could easily call it "hard hat heaven" for those that have pushed for Spaceport America's development over many years.
Spaceport America, billed as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, is taking shape some 30 miles (48 km) east of Truth or Consequences and 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, N.M.
A critical centerpiece of Spaceport America is putting in place a runway to space. Measuring 10,000 feet long by 200 feet wide that stretch of tarmac is designed to handle horizontal launch space and air operations at the spaceport.
Virgin Galactic, the suborbital spaceline operator, is the anchor tenant for Spaceport America, also making use of a Terminal Hangar Facility projected to be complete by early 2011.
Unique elements
"The runway is estimated to be complete by June and at the latest August 2010," Steve Landeene, Executive Director for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA), told Space.com. At that moment, Spaceport America will be open for people to come and use the runway for their activities."
.The runway is large, Landeene said, but not necessarily that different than major military or heavy commercial runways. "The longer term view is to widen the airfield to 300 feet by 15,000 feet which would make it one of the most capable airfields in the world," he noted.
As for runways that can handle spaceships, a good comparison is NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is 15,000 feet long and 300 feet wide to give returning shuttles enough room to touch down and coast to a stop.
Then there's Runway 12/30 — 15,000 feet long by 200 feet wide — at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that can be used for emergency shuttle landings. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, it sports a huge 39,098-feet-by-899-feet-wide lakebed runway that has served as a landing site for the space shuttle.
By contrast, larger international airports that accommodate the biggest jets offer a landing strip over 18,000 feet long by some 260 feet wide.
Spaceport America's Landeene said that a recent design request is to potentially add centerline lighting to assist pilots in landing.
One of the unique elements of Spaceport America's runway versus others is that it sits next to White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and has the option of flying in full restricted airspace or the National Airspace, Landeene observed. "With Kirtland Air Force Base to the North and Holloman Air Force Base to the east — just east of WSMR — a very unique set of operating theater capabilities is being established to perform many types of testing and operations."
Past is prelude
The caution and warning light is on when it comes to runways and returning space ships. That's the outlook of Stuart Witt, General Manager of the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California.
That inland spaceport has chalked up considerable know-how during 2002-04 as the WhiteKnightOne carrier plane and SpaceShipOne underwent extensive shakeout flights. Those craft were developed by Mojave-based Scaled Composites.
The Mojave locale is also home for start-ups XCOR Aerospace and Masten Space Systems. Both entrepreneurial firms have performed rocket-powered flights in 2004-09 and they are keen on providing suborbital flight for clientele.
And it was from the Mojave Air and Space Port that the first privately-funded human spaceflights soared skyward.
A step-by-step test program led to bagging the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 by the piloted suborbital SpaceShipOne making back to back vaults into space within a two-week period.
Given that the past is prelude, Scaled Composites is now working with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to build, test and commercially fly ticket-holding tourists to the edge of space via the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system.
.Cross-wind worries
Witt observes that firms developing "on the cheap" or "the commercial way" without unlimited funds to perform all "must haves" .... "should haves" ... and "nice to haves" tend to focus only on the "must haves."
Adequate runways to handle a returning glider from space packed with paying passengers isn't a "must have" until you need a cross wind runway, Witt said. That need did happen, he said, on one of 17 SpaceShipOne flights at Mojave, and was practiced by XCOR Aerospace on two rocket-powered craft developments when the vehicle returned as a glider.
History speaks for itself, Witt said, flagging what NASA learned during development of several piloted space glide vehicles, including the X-15 and the space shuttle.
Witt asks: "How many shuttle [landing] aborts were the cause of out-of-limit cross winds at Edwards Air Force Base, White Sands or in Florida? How many lakebed landings were the result of the runway being in the 'wrong direction' for the returning craft? Or another good question is how many people and craft has the lakebed option saved in the past 60 years?"
The pig is committed
Suborbital craft are committed to a landing from the time they separate from the mother ship — in the case of Virgin Galactic — or from the time they depart the runway from a tarmac launch in the case of XCOR's suborbital machine.
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Spaceflight now ...http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp25/101030prog40p/ Another source of current information
The new space private space race msnbc...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5184095/
Looking foward Bransons Of Virgin //2011...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35698725/ns/technology_and_science-space/
One minute and counting live on Fox News HERE SHE GOES NICE // USA Needs the private companies now more than ever Peops
Russia about to launch mission to ISS ?
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Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) held in Orlando, Florida, this week set records for the number of presentations, sponsors and attendees. The annual conference brings the research and education communities together with suborbital vehicle providers and government funding agencies to explore the [...] Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce that the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) held in Orlando, Florida, this week set records for the number of presentations, sponsors and attendees. The annual conference brings the research and education communities together with suborbital vehicle providers and government funding agencies to explore the exciting new era of suborbital spaceflight. CSF is a proud co-sponsor of the event, which was attended by about 350 people. NSRC organizing chairman Dr. Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute stated, “When we first conceived the idea for NSRC, many people were skeptical that such a meeting would generate much interest. Some even thought the research and education communities were simply not interested in suborbital science. But just as in 2010, people have voted with their feet and come to NSRC by the hundreds. And once again we heard an amazing variety of proposals to exploit the capabilities of next-gen suborbital spaceflight — in fact, the number of presentations by researchers and educators increased 40 percent over last year.” Stern added, “Clearly, many people are very interested in the capabilities that next-gen suborbital can provide to the research and education communities.” Bretton Alexander, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, stated, “The interest from researchers in these new commercial suborbital spacecraft was immediately apparent at this week’s Florida conference. The excitement in the air was contagious. It’s becoming increasingly clear that scientists and educators can’t wait to put payloads and experiments onboard these vehicles.” In addition to featuring more than 120 presentations spread among 20 technical sessions, this year’s NSRC also featured four discussion panels, a press conference, presentations or booths by 25 sponsors, and a public evening presentation by Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides. “This year’s NSRC, like 2010’s, has been a galvanizing event for both the suborbital industry and the space research and education communities, demonstrating that the level of researcher and educator interest in next-gen suborbital is dramatically growing,” added Stern. “In response to the high turnout at NSRC in Orlando, we are today announcing that NSRC-2012 will take place in the San Francisco area next February 27-29, and will be hosted by NASA Ames Research Center. I’m looking forward to that already!” About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation # # # |
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Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation welcomes the support of more than 50 former NASA astronauts, scientists, educators, and industry CEOs and leaders who sent a letter to Congress yesterday urging full funding of the Commercial Crew Program as critical to America’s leadership in space. Washington, D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation welcomes the support of more than 50 former NASA astronauts, scientists, educators, and industry CEOs and leaders who sent a letter to Congress yesterday urging full funding of the Commercial Crew Program as critical to America’s leadership in space. The letter states, “We are writing to urge you to fully fund NASA’s plan to use commercial companies to carry crew to the Space Station because it is critical to the health of the Nation’s human spaceflight efforts,” adding, “We include 14 former NASA astronauts, 5 former NASA senior executives, 13 educators and nonprofit leaders, and 24 space industry leaders from a wide variety of firms and institutions, both large and small.” The letter adds, “By hiring American businesses, NASA’s Commercial Crew to Space Station program also generates thousands of high tech American jobs across states ranging from Florida, to Alabama, to Texas, to California, to Virginia, to Colorado, to Nevada, and to Maryland, rather than sending these jobs overseas to Russia to build Soyuz capsules and rockets.” “It has been very gratifying to see the support for Commercial Crew from a broad cross-section of the community, ranging from former Apollo and Shuttle astronauts to scientists and former NASA Center Directors,” stated John Gedmark, Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Notable signatories include former Apollo-era NASA astronauts such as Owen Garriott (Skylab 3, STS-9) and Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9); former NASA Johnson Space Center Director Gerry Griffin, who also served as Deputy Director of NASA Kennedy Space Center and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; former NASA Ames Center Director Scott Hubbard, who also served as a Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) member; former NASA Associate Administrator for Science Alan Stern; former FAA Associate Administrator Patti Grace Smith; and former Columbia Accident Investigation Board member John Logsdon. To view the full letter, please visit http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1509 About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation # # # |
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Funded agreements announced for 8 to 17 flights on suborbital vehicles Funded agreements announced for 8 to 17 flights on suborbital vehicles Washington, D.C., Monday, February 28, 2011 – Three scientists, including a former NASA executive, will become some of the first scientists to fly on a commercial spacecraft — and they will fly multiple times — under the terms of two funded agreements announced between the nonprofit Southwest Research Institute and two commercial spacecraft providers, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research institute with annual revenue exceeding $500 million, will purchase a total of 8 to 17 scientific research flights on two vehicles – Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx Mark I – to fly both scientists and scientific payloads to the upper atmosphere and space. The scientists selected for the flights are Dr. Alan Stern, Dr. Dan Durda, and Dr. Cathy Olkin, and the science payloads will include biomedical, microgravity science, and astronomical imaging projects. All three scientists selected have trained for suborbital spaceflight aboard zero-G aircraft, in NASTAR centrifuges and aboard Starfighter F-104 jet fighters in the last year. Dr. Stern, the former head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, stated, “We at SwRI are very strong believers in the transformational power of commercial, next-generation suborbital vehicles to advance many kinds of research. We also believe that by putting scientists in space with their experiments, researchers can achieve better results at lower costs and a higher probability of success than with many old-style automated experiments.” George Whitesides, President and CEO of Virgin Galactic said, “This agreement signals the enormous scientific potential of the Virgin spaceflight system. Virgin Galactic will be able to offer researchers flights to space that are unprecedented in frequency and cost. Science flights will be an important growth area for the company in the years to come, building on the strong commercial success already demonstrated by deposits received from over 400 individuals for Virgin’s space experience.” XCOR Aerospace’s COO, Andrew Nelson, stated, “When someone issues a commercial contract with their own money, this means something,” and XCOR’s chief executive officer, Jeff Greason, added, “I look forward to the pioneering work this partnership will achieve.” Commercial Spaceflight Federation Executive Director John Gedmark added, “This is a historic moment for spaceflight — a scientific research institution is spending its own money to send its scientists to space. I expect that these scientists will be the first of many to fly to space commercially. As the scientific community realizes that they can put payloads and people into space at unprecedented low costs, the floodgates will open even wider.” Dr. Dan Durda, one of the Southwest Research Institute scientists selected to fly, said, “We’re another step closer to the era of routine ‘field work’ in space research. More and more researchers will soon fly with their own experiments in space, and do it regularly enough to allow the important advances that come with iterative investigations. I’m looking forward to that future and helping it become a reality.” The announcements come as more than 300 scientists, educators, engineers, and students are registered to attend the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference which began today in Orlando, Florida at the University of Central Florida, to discuss the topic of scientific applications of commercial suborbital spacecraft. The conference runs through March 2nd. About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation The mission of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) is to promote the development of commercial human spaceflight, pursue ever-higher levels of safety, and share best practices and expertise throughout the industry. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s member companies, which include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high-tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and engineering. For more information please visit www.commercialspaceflight.org or contact Executive Director John Gedmark at john@commercialspaceflight.org or at 202.349.1121. # # #
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The 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference begins today in Orlando, Florida. The conference promises to be a watershed gathering for researchers, educators, and industry/government, as a forum to discuss utilizing new commercial suborbital vehicles for research and education. The 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference begins today in Orlando, Florida. The conference promises to be a watershed gathering for researchers, educators, and industry/government, as a forum to discuss utilizing new commercial suborbital vehicles for research and education. Registration is available at the door, and the conference will last from February 28 to March 2. Please visit http://nsrc.swri.org/ for more information. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is a co-sponsor of the conference. Commercial Spaceflight Federation Executive Director John Gedmark will be delivering a keynote address to the conference attendees at 11 am on February 28, and the Federation will also be moderating a panel on “Payload Integration” at 10:30 am on March 1. For the entire conference, over 120 presenters—a 40% increase over 2010—will discuss everything from flight test progress to planned experiments in 7 different research fields to training and roles for research and educator payload specialists. In total, the meeting will feature 20 sessions, 4 discussion panels, a press conference, presentations or booths by 20 sponsors, and a public night presentation by Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides. The meeting will also include invited talks by experts in diverse fields that include microgravity sciences, atmospheric science, space life sciences, planetary science, education, and crew training. |
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The X PRIZE Foundation, a member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, announced this week “the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that travels at least 500 meters and transmit video, images, and data back to the [...] The X PRIZE Foundation, a member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, announced this week “the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that travels at least 500 meters and transmit video, images, and data back to the Earth.” The X PRIZE Foundation noted that, “Recently, NASA, the U.S. civil space agency, announced that it will purchase data related to innovative lunar missions from six Google Lunar X PRIZE teams, with contracts worth as much as $10 million each.” This is a demonstration of the power of public-private partnerships in space exploration and discovery. X PRIZE Foundation chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis noted the progress made in the competition to date, stating, “Teams have purchased launch vehicles, they are well into their design process, and we have even seen NASA recognize the value of this competition by purchasing data from several competitors. I want to congratulate the teams that have registered. We are excited to see what they will accomplish in the coming years.” Tiffany V.C. Montague, Manager of Google Space Initiatives, stated, “From the Wright brothers’ first flight to the Lewis and Clark expedition, the most successful and revolutionary discoveries often come from small, entrepreneurial teams. At Google, we share with this global group of innovators a passion for tackling tough technological and scientific challenges, and we wish them the best of luck as they begin the mission phase.” For more information, visit the Google Lunar X PRIZE website at: http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/. |
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The 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida 28 February through 2 March. That’s less than two weeks away!
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Space Technology Office to Support High-Payoff Programs Including Centennial Challenge Prizes, Commercial Suborbital Science, and Parabolic Flights Space Technology Office to Support High-Payoff Programs Including Centennial Challenge Prizes, Commercial Suborbital Science, and Parabolic Flights Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 15, 2011 – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation today welcomed the strong support for space technology investments in the new NASA FY2012 proposed budget, including such high-profile programs as Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research, Centennial Challenges, and NASA’s commercial parabolic flight program. CSF President Bretton Alexander stated, “Consistent with the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, these investments in space technology R&D represent a renewed focus by NASA on innovation, which is the seed corn of American economic competitiveness. Between 2005 and 2009, NASA’s technology programs were cut more than 50%, and we applaud NASA’s plan to reverse this decline. Robust funding for technology R&D will help ensure that the United States remains a global leader in space.” Specific technology programs that are part of the new NASA budget include: - NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program, funded at $15 million per year, which will give scientists and students access to conduct research using low-cost commercial suborbital vehicles. - NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, funded at $10 million per year, which offers incentive prizes in the mold of the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE to spur innovation in diverse areas of space technology. - NASA’s Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training (FAST), funded at $2 million per year, a commercial parabolic flight program to conduct research and technology development on “zero gravity” aircraft. - Other exciting NASA technology programs, including: Cryogenic Propellant Transfer and Storage, In-Space Propulsion, Space Power Generation and Storage, Nuclear Systems, Lightweight Materials and Structures, Human-Robotic Systems, Autonomous Systems, Next-Generation Life Support, Adaptive Entry Systems, and In-Situ Resource Utilization. CSF Executive Director John Gedmark stated, “These will be some of NASA’s most high-profile, exciting programs. They are what the nation needs to generate new technology breakthroughs and precisely the kind of programs that will inspire the next generation to go into fields of science and engineering.” NASA’s decision to increase technology funding follows a letter released last September by a group of 14 Nobel Laureates to Congress that emphasized the importance of technology investment, stating: “Innovative technology development must once again become a high priority at NASA…. We urge that NASA’s total technology investment be increased.” CSF Executive Director John Gedmark concluded, “Yesterday’s technologies are not sufficient to keep America in first place in the global race for economic competitiveness. Technology innovation is what got America to the moon in the 1960s, and we need a renewed focus on technology to drive NASA forward in the 21st century. NASA and private industry can work together to find innovative technological solutions to today’s spaceflight challenges.” About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation The mission of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) is to promote the development of commercial human spaceflight, pursue ever-higher levels of safety, and share best practices and expertise throughout the industry. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s member companies, which include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high-tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and engineering. For more information please visit www.commercialspaceflight.org or contact Executive Director John Gedmark at john@commercialspaceflight.org or at 202.349.1121. # # # |
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