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Hope i can go there :)))))))
The New Space should have wifi LOL
SpaceX on making history by landing the Falcon 9’s reusable Stage one booster from a record altitude. It’s an exciting day for all of us in the space industry.”
ORBCOMM...ORBC
http://www.orbcomm.com/en/company-investors/news/2015/orbcomm-announces-the-successful-launch-of-its-eleven-og2-satellites
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ula-bows-out-of-pentagon-launch-competition-paving-way-for-spacex/2015/11/16/2aae2aa4-8c99-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html Check this out Spacex will tak it oveer I am sure
super nova explosion tomorrow, Live-views at Slooh
http://events.slooh.com/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread735342/pg1 Video tour of Spacex with Elon Musk as tour director Great Info on production
http://moonandback.com/2013/03/05/this-isnt-sci-fi/ Wild fire at night photo
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/02/dragon-third-visit-logistics-schedule-challenges/ Dragon to resupply ISS
Commercial crew program threatened by budget cuts
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: February 23, 2013
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Automatic spending cuts due to go into effect March 1 would likely extend U.S. reliance on Russia for human spaceflight, delay development of badly-needed next-generation weather satellites, and force a reduction in radar scans searching for space debris, according to Obama administration officials.
Artist's concept of Boeing's CST-100 commercial crew spacecraft. Credit: Boeing
That's if Congress and the White House don't act to avoid the across-the-board cuts, which will be automatically triggered at the end of next week without a compromise on how to deal with the federal government's budget deficit.
NASA would lose about $894 million from its current budget outlook in the period between March 1 and Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2013.
According to a letter to the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the space agency's commercial crew program would suffer the brunt of the budget cuts.
By the second half of 2013, NASA says it will be unable to make payments to companies working on private spaceships under the agency's commercial crew program.
"Overall availability of commercial crew transportation services would be significantly delayed, thereby extending our reliance on foreign providers for crew transportation to the International Space Station," Bolden wrote in a letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
NASA has public-private partnership agreements with Boeing Co., SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corp. to fund the design and testing of commercial spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the space station. NASA makes payments to the companies upon completion of predetermined development milestones.
Until a commercial provider becomes operational, which NASA projects by 2017, U.S. astronauts will ride Russian Soyuz spacecraft while voyaging to the space station and back to Earth.
Bolden wrote the automatic cuts, known as sequestration, could cause launch delays for NASA's scientific research satellites and potential cancellations of space technology projects, such as advanced communications, radiation protection, nuclear systems and other fields.
The White House and Congress agreed on the sequestration plan in 2011 as part of a compromise to raise the federal government's debt limit. Sequestration was meant to be a "poison pill" to compel leaders in both parties to reach an agreement to rein in the budget deficit.
But lawmakers could not come to a resolution, and Congress reached a deal Jan. 1 to put off the spending cuts for two months and extend current income tax rates for individuals earning less than $400,000 and households earning less than $450,000.
Sequestration was originally set to go into effect at the beginning of 2013. It impacts all federal discretionary spending, slashing 8.2 percent annually from non-defense government agencies and 9.4 percent from military programs.
Unless Congress and the Obama administration agree on targeted budget cuts - sparing some programs and still hitting others - every corner of the government's military, research and regulatory apparatus will see their funding reduced.
Artist's concept of next-generation GOES weather satellites. Credit: NOAA
NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather observatories, currently scheduled for launch in 2015 and 2017, would face a delay of two or three years if the automatic budget cuts take effect and stay in place.
"This delay would increase the risk of a gap in satellite coverage and diminish the quality of weather forecasts and warnings," said Rebecca Blank, acting Secretary of Commerce.
Defense Department officials say sequestration would be devastating to the military, predicting thousands of furloughs and decreased combat readiness.
Air Force Space Command announced Feb. 8 it would reduce some missile warning and space surveillance operations.
Gen. Mark Welsh, Air Force chief of staff, told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Feb. 13 that Space Command would curtail observations using secondary radars to monitor for missile attacks and track objects in orbit.
The Air Force uses satellites and a network of ground-based radars for the early warning and surveillance tasks.
"We don't have as much redundancy now in the system and we don't have as much capacity to track objects in orbit," Welsh said.
Even if sequestration takes hold, it could be short-lived. The government's current budget resolution runs out March 27, and Congress must pass another budget by then to avoid a government shutdown. The new budget could include deficit reductions directed at specific programs, instead of across-the-board cuts.
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/630142main_1-Sylvester_ETD_03_7_12_508.pdf NASA latest developmental projects
Also the SABRE intercooler, major step to finalizing the Ground-direct-to-space leap. Although Skylon exists only on paper, this intercooling-breakthru was essential to the design of these Air-agumented rockets.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/uk-science-spaceplane-idUKBRE8AR0R520121128
http://goldenspikecompany.com/ NEXT GENERATION COMING SOON IMHO
Virgin Galactic Selects Sim Platform for Spaceship Command Training
ORLANDO, Fla. — Virgin Galactic will use an advanced real-time image generator to train pilots on spaceship equipment and command. Quantum3D, Inc., a leading provider of visual computing solutions for government and commercial applications, today announced Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, has ordered Quantum3D’s six-channel Independence® IDX 7000 image generator.
“Our first priority in sub-orbital space exploration is safety, and by leveraging Quantum3D’s IDX 7000 with the most advanced image generation, we are giving our pilots the best training available for space exploration,” said Keith Colmer, senior test pilot, Virgin Galactic. “Quantum3D created an impressive high quality database, including imagery of our spaceship models, buildings, hangars, and spaceport to provide the most realistic simulation possible for our pilots, which will assist in creating a space program to support flying almost anyone to space and back safely.”
The IDX 7000 offers enhanced performance and capabilities to deliver Virgin Galactic a versatile and powerful simulation and training platform that can be setup in a dedicated room or easily transported, to meet a range of onsite, on-location and mobile training needs. Combined with Mantis® shader-based real-time scene management software with geo-specific, worldwide synthetic environments, Virgin Galactic will be able to train their pilots in a variety of simulations, from instrument/cockpit familiarization to a full range of special effects, sensors, weather, and lighting, along with mission-critical functions such as height-above-terrain and line-of-sight intersection testing.
“Virgin Galactic is on the cusp of a new frontier – making sub-orbital space accessibility a reality,” said Wade Guindy, president, Quantum3D. “We are proud to have Virgin Galactic using our IDX 7000 image generator and Mantis software to train their pilots for the future of consumer space travel.”
Japan steps up development of lifter's to carry more cargo at a reduced-per-launch cost.
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Japan_Plans_to_Launch_New_Carrier_Rocket_in_2013_999.html
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ Prelaunch and live launch coverage here
The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft undergo final checks in the hangar before this Sunday’s launch to the International Space Station, targeted for 8:35PM ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Very odd, link went to headline of the Empire State building shooting.
...I suppose because it was "breaking-news".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX info here
Yep, it's already there.
Yes I did. And as you view it, cargo (stowed) disappears and reappears, to show the "fit" in the containment-bays.
Did You Try the zoom in feature cool
The space X site has an interesting viewer for the insides of the module. Rotate and zoom for different views.
http://www.spacex.com/updates.php We are getting close
Falcon 9 Demo2/3 prepared and ready for mission , I cannot wait// What a great Christmas present //Merry Christmas and Happy New Year GOD bless You and all of Your people
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43384144/vp/45587364#45587364 SpaceX leading the way
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.
This message board is meant to be purely for disscussion of New science in reguards to the advancement of Humankinds advancement into space exploration . Please adhere to TOU as spelled out in Handbook.Thank you All
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