Image Credit: SpaceX Innerspace Commentary: On Wednesday, United Launch Alliance took delivery of two more Russian built RD-180 rocket engines destined for the Atlas V. They were delivered to Huntsville, Al. aboard an Antonov cargo plane in a depressingly routine procedure. Curiously, even though Congress is in recess, none of the Alabama delegation; Mo Brooks, […]
Another contribution from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Original Caption: “This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 […]
Image Credit: Swiss Space Systems Since the day it was announced, Swiss Space Systems has been among the more intriguing NewSpace companies enering the launch arena. With its vision of a two/thirds reusable space launch platform consisting of a modified Airbus A-300 carrying aloft a fully reusable, unmanned winged second stage based on both European and […]
Image Credit : Boeing Boeing announced today that it has completed the final two of 20 milestones in the CCiCap phase of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The announcement comes only weeks or even days ahead of a NASA’s award in the next and final phase of the program, Commercial Crew Transportation Capability, or CCtCap. According […]
NASA Press Release August 21, 2014 RELEASE 14-222 NASA and Commercial Partners Review Summer of Advancements NASA’s spaceflight experts in the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) met throughout July with aerospace partners to review increasingly advanced designs, elements and systems of the spacecraft and launch vehicles under development as part of the space agency’s Commercial Crew […]
The Motley Fool seemingly issues a story about Tesla Motors every six hours, and who can blame them. Tesla is one of the most fascinating corporate stories ever, even without the tie to SpaceX. Nevertheless, the two have been linked heavily this week in the disputed story regarding SpaceX financing. As Tesla’s stock continues to […]
The Motley Fool has an informative piece out today entitled “Solving Solar Power’s Biggest Problem.” The article focuses on the issue of energy generation at night, or in inclement weather and two different projects by the same company using mirrors to concentrate the sunlight, which is called CSP technology. The company, Torresol Energy out of […]
Two Mars related stories. First, Uwingo, the crowd-sourced Mars funding site started which is attempting to raise $10 million this year to support research grants for Mars exploration has unveiled a new campaign. According to the announcement: “Uwingu presents the first opportunity for a shout-out from the people of Earth to Mars with personal messages […]
Law360, a subscription based site which was among the first to report that SpaceX was being sued by former employees over alleged improper terminations, and then, in a second suit over working conditions, is now reporting a third suit has just been filed. According to the site: “Space Exploration Technologies Corp. employees on Monday launched a […]
Yesterday, on-line media picked up and repeated again and again a story posted on Techcrunch.com claiming that SpaceX is seeking to raise capital on the secondary market. Just for reference, Investopedia defines secondary markets thusly: “A market where investors purchase securities or assets from other investors, rather than from issuing companies themselves. The national exchanges […]
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