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A press release issued late today indicated that a new organization, Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by the first private space traveler, Dennis Tito, would make a major announcement next Wednesday, February 27th concerning a 501 day mission to Mars.
The press release said the news conference next week would be "detailing its plans to take advantage of a unique window of opportunity to launch an historic journey to Mars and back in 501 days, starting in January 2018...
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The Canadian government will award a British Columbia company an $11-million contract Friday for support and training for a new system that allows the Canadian Forces to obtain data from commercial satellites.
The government in November 2011 had awarded MacDonald Dettwiler of Richmond, B.C. a $31-million contract for two mobile ground stations that will allow military commanders to download imagery from commercial satellites, including Radarsat-2. The ground stations, called Unclassified Remote-Sensing Situational Awareness systems, will be fully operational later this year.
Friday’s contract will see MacDonald Dettwiler providing maintenance and training for the systems over an initial period of five years. The contract also has three one-year options for extension of the services...
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At the risk of over-generalizing, there are two broad points of view among space enthusiasts about the future of American human spaceflight. One group looks at NASA’s inability to go beyond Earth orbit in the last four decades, looks at the numerous policy collapses like the Space Exploration Initiative and the Vision for Space Exploration, and considers the current lack of clearly defined goals and destinations and the resources to actually venture outward, and gets depressed. Another group looks at the rise of “commercial space,” at the Bigelow inflatable habitats and the announced plans for asteroid mining and, above all, the latest press releases from SpaceX, and concludes that the future is so bright that we gotta wear shades. In their view, humans will be landing on Mars perhaps within fifteen years wearing corporate logo polo shirts and drawing the shape of the dollar sign in the pink sky while flipping the bird at the oppressive NASA bureaucracy.
But I try to be as analytical as possible about the present: the glass is neither half full nor half empty; it is a 16 ounce glass containing 8 ounces of water. And when it comes to trying to imagine the future of human spaceflight, I watch movies. Via Stratocumulus Delete the scoop?
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Skolkovo, Russia (SPX) May 22, 2013 SPUTNIX has been granted has been granted a license by the Russian Federal Space Agency for engaging in space activity, namely: creating and modernizing small automatic space vehicles for scientific and... Delete the scoop?
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Raytheon will relocate its Space and Airborne Systems headquarters, one of the company’s four business units, from El Segundo, California to McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas... Delete the scoop?
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Rochelle Park, NJ (SPX) May 22, 2013 ORBCOMM has announced the availability of the ORBCOMM GT 1100, a self-powered M2M asset tracking and monitoring device targeted for a variety of global markets including transportation and logistics, heavy... Delete the scoop?
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Pat Hynes writes about the launch by UP Aerospace at Spaceport America scheduled for June 21st and about the importance of such launches for New Mexico students: Why we should send student experiments to space - Pat Hynes Blog
This will be the latest in a series of launches in the New Mexico Space Grant Education Launch Program. To participate in the event, there is a registration page here.
The launch of the SpaceLoft XL involves payloads sponsored by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program... Delete the scoop?
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The National Space Society (“NSS”) is a nonprofit educational organization whose Vision is: “People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.”
This Vision embraces both space as a future second home for humanity and the resources of space (such as the Sun’s energy for space-based solar power, extra-terrestrial minerals for raw materials, and low-gravity for manufacturing) being used for the benefit of all of us on the Earth. These two elements of the Vision are intertwined: development of space products and services for the people of Earth will both require human presence in space and will enable and motivate expansion of our species away from the home planet... Delete the scoop?
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What Hadfield did — what any smart advertiser does — was sweep away any ancillary clutter and get straight to the point he wanted to make.
At its emotional center, space isn’t about student outreach or commercial potential or industrial spinoffs — though every one of those things is important and valuable.
It’s about transcendence, it’s about experience, it’s about going to a place where otherworldly is a literal term, where you see things that are otherwise utterly impossible to see, where the simple rules of physics don’t even apply the same way. That place is both excruciatingly close — just beyond an onionskin of atmosphere — and unreachably distant.
All of Hadfield’s videos capture that idea in one way or another, but the last one, which combines the alien nature of the place he was living at the time with the deeply personal power of a song that has private associations for anyone who’s familiar with it, was a masterstroke. It mainlined meaning directly into our emotional centers. Whether you care about space or not, once you watch Hadfield’s video, you’re very glad that humanity as a whole — and Hadfield in particular — can go there.... Delete the scoop?
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And I have volunteered my time to work with the Commercial Spaceflight Federation to establish safety, management, and engineering standards for all the members of this fledgling industry. So the committee can see that I ... Delete the scoop?
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Tucson AZ (SPX) May 23, 2013 OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion asteroid sample return mission led by the University of Arizona, reached a major milestone on May 16: The project passed the agency-level confirmation review called Key Decision Point-C, or... Delete the scoop?
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Arlene Dickinson estimates she’s personally seen 5,000 entrepreneurs rejected in their pursuit of investor cash in recent years.
A dragon on CBC’s The Dragons’ Den, she clearly hears more pitches than the average investor. Still, she detects an underlying issue.
“There is a problem in this country in terms of people being able to access money at the startup stage, at the venture capital stage, and at the growth stage,” she said recently, noting that some of her investments from the show have turned into “multi-million dollar companies”. Delete the scoop?
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... In New Mexico, workers are putting the finishing touches on the first of at least ten spaceports currently under construction around the world. More than 800 people have paid as much as $200,000 apiece to reserve seats on commercial flights into space, some of which are expected to launch, at long last, within a year. Space-travel agents are being trained; space suits are being designed for sex appeal as much as for utility; the founder of the Budget hotel chain is developing pods for short- and long-term stays in Earth’s orbit and beyond. Over beers one night, a former high-ranking NASA official, now employed by Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin transportation conglomerate, put it plainly: “We happen to be alive at the moment when humanity starts leaving the planet.”
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New Mexico has long held a kind of connection with space. The red landscape, the clearness and closeness of the stars, the solitude. Delete the scoop?
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from rawstory.com: U.S. space agency NASA has tapped 3-D printer firm Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) to create the first-ever “Star Trek”-style food replicator using 3-D printing technology. Delete the scoop?
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On the weekend of April 20, 2013, 9000 people from over 80 countries responded to NASA’s call to hack their way towards unique and innovative... Delete the scoop?
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Moonandback Travel, Inc. has partnered with the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space to provide space tourism services to SEDS' membership and alumni. Delete the scoop?
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Over the last few years multiple companies, institutions and individuals have started building nano-satellites and other small satellites. These little satellites are packed with electronics and range from the size of a computer chip to a smart phone to a pumpkin. With their communication and research capabilities, they have multiple applications working individually or in coordination with one another. But, with the high cost of earth to space transport, how in the world are they going to get up into space? We challenge YOU to design a 3D printed rocket engine that could become part of a propulsion system and vehicle to carry nano-satellites into space... Delete the scoop?
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NASA is holding a public event to discuss the unfunded space act agreement with Bigelow Aerospace:
NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Exploration and Development
WASHINGTON -- NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaborating with commercial industry on exploration beyond Earth orbit. Journalists can participate in-person or by teleconference. Delete the scoop?
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A California company next month will take over Kennedy Space Center facilities once used to maintain space shuttle thrusters.United Paradyne Corp. of Santa Maria, Calif., has signed a 15-year lease to operate the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility, or HMF, in KSC’s Industrial Area. Delete the scoop?
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