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Highlights From SpaceX FISO Presentation
SpaceX lead astronaut Garrett Reisman gave a presentation to NASA’s Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group on Wednesday. The presentation, entitled “Commercial Spaceflight” is available here in PDF on the FISO archives. The audio is here. While the talk does not reveal any significant new developments, it did shed a little more light on a […]
Splitting Water on a AAA Battery
A graduate student at Stanford may have made a break-through in reducing the costs of electrolysis in splitting water into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. According to a report in phys.org, the new process uses common materials and a fraction of the input electrical power employed in conventional techniques: “Using nickel and iron, […]
Gaga to Sing and Marry Aboard Virgin Galactic?
Say it ain’t so. The Daily Star reports that in addition to performing a one song “set” on her upcoming sub-orbital flight aboard Richard’s Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Lady Gaga is planning to have a “commitment ceremony” with her boyfriend Taylor Kinney on the maiden flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise. According to the Daily Star […]
SpaceX Counts Down to Tuesday Launch, Clears DragonFly Hurdle
Asiasat 8 Streaks Into the Sky, Credit: SpaceX The news has been more than just lawsuits and fund-raising disputes for SpaceX this week. As SpaceX enters the last week of August, the company is moving ahead on several key fronts, beginning with the announcement of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) from the FAA […]
Swiss Space Sytems Hopes to “SOAR” with Investor Campaign
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 […]
NASA Commercial Crew Update For Recent Achievements
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 […]
Gass Steps Down at ULA, Did SpaceX, RD-180 Play a Role?
Image Credit: SpaceFoundation.org A number of news stories over the last week have focused on SpaceX firing somewhere between 200 and 400 employees, and the lawsuit filed over California’s WARN act as a result. Now however, a more interesting story is unfolding regarding the departure of just a single employee, not from SpaceX, but from […]
SpaceX Orbcomm Launch Now Reset for Sunday Night
The SpaceX / Orbcommlaunch which had been scheduled for Thursday evening has now been moved back until Sunday evening. Orbcomm posted the following on its website today: “The OG2 Mission 1 Launch is scheduled for Sunday, June 15 at 8:00 pm ET with Monday, June 16 as the back-up launch date. During final integration on […]
MRO Captures New Impact Crater on Mars
Image Credit : NASA NASA News Story: Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The crater spans half the length of a football field and first appeared in March 2012. The impact that created […]
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