NewSpace
2010 Review
A report on the annual Space
Frontier Foundation's conference, held
this year in Sunnyvale, California. Topics
of discussion ranged from entrepreneurial
space businesses to lunar miing to fully reusable
suborbital space vehicles.
1st
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Resources
Links to blog posts, pictures, videos and
commentary about the successful first launch
of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
New
Space Log 2010
This section holds links to blog posts, articles,
pictures, etc. about events and developments
this year in New
Space.
Make
Magazine provides information and how-to
guides for do-it-yourself science and technology
projects of all kinds. The latest issue
is dedicated to space projects for hobbyists
and students:
Here are some of the space projects in
the issue along with links to relevant sections
at HobbySpace:
Making Your Own Satellites by
Chris Boshuizen - Build and launch your
own sat for as little as $8,000. Satellite
Building
Listening to Satellites by Diana
Eng - Tune in to space with a homemade
yagi antenna. Space
Radio
Weather Balloon Space Probes
by John Baichtal - Sense, signal, and
snap photos in the stratosphere. Near
Space
Helium Balloon Imaging "Satellite"
by Jim Newell - Snap aerial photos from
300' up by suspending a hacked drugstore
camera from 3 tethered helium balloons.
Near
Space
High-Resolution Spectrograph
by Simon Quellen - Field Lab-worthy analysis
for cheap.
Articles about space:
Makers at Mission Control by
Rachel Hobson - Meet the elite NASA team
that figures out how to fix the space
station when things go wrong.
Rocket Men by Charles Platt
- Mavericks of the private space industry.
Commercial Human Spaceflight
Introduction from Florida Today
The issues involved in the development
of commercial human spaceflight and NASA's
relationship to the burgeoning commercial
spaceflight industry are quite complex and
impossible to explain clearly in a few sentences.
For example, it is not widely understood
that commercial spaceflight includes not
just entrepreneurial "NewSpace"
firms like SpaceX
but also legacy companies like Boeing.
In addition to the in-depth text article,
Florida Today added an elaborate interactive
graphic and also the following 30 minute
video program. The Florida Today report
will give you a good overview of the breadth
and depth of commercial human spaceflight
and how NASA can take advantage of it.
Florida Today video about commercial spaceflight.
Check for the latest in leading edge rocket and
space travel projects on the Space
Transport News Bog.
Real-Time Space Viewers
Earth
Weather maps, remote sensing
and spysat images.
Space
Weather
Sun, solar wind, aurora images
and the latest data