NewSpace
2011 Conference Review
A report on the annual Space
Frontier Foundation's conference, held
this year at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California.
Topics of discussion ranged from entrepreneurial
space businesses to lunar miing to fully reusable
suborbital space vehicles.
Space
Access 11 Conference Review
A report on the annual Space
Access Society's annual conference in
Phoenix, Arizona. The focus, as always, was
on efforts by entrepreneurial companies to
achieve dramatically lower costs for getting
to space..
These videos are intended as demonstrations of an experimental
technique for generating animated presentations. The
show was generated autonomously by software and without
human interaction. The project is described in the Virtual
Producer whitepaper (pdf). For further information
contact info@binary-space.com.
"a worldwide initiative that challenges
14-18 year-old students to design a science
experiment that can be performed in space.
The two winning experiments will be conducted
aboard the International Space Station
(ISS) and live streamed on YouTube."
..
It's
a Whole New Outer Space Out There
SpaceX Announces Plans to
Develop a Fully Reusable Launch Vehicle
On September
29th, Elon Musk, the visionary found
and CEO of SpaceX,
announced that the firm would begin development
of a fully and rapidly reusable version
of their Falcon
9/Dragon
launch system. If successful, the system
would lower the price of getting into space
by as much as 100 times below the standard
current cost of several thousand dollars
per kilogram. Musk believes that at such
costs, it will become feasible for humanity
to expand into the solar system and colonize
Mars.
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This animation shows how the three components
of the Falcon 9 system -
the first and second stages of the rocket
and the Dragon crew capsule -
will return back to the launch faciltiy
with powered vertical landings.
Run the Satellite
Tracking Tool from BINARY
SPACE right here at HobbySpace
in your browser. The program allows you to track a large
set of satellites in both low earth and geostationary
orbits. (Note: the program requires Microsoft
Silverlight, version 4 or higher). The Satellite
Observing section provides additional information
and web resources about the hobby of satellite tracking
and watching.
Real-Time
Space Viewers
Earth
Weather maps, remote sensing
and spysat images.
Space
Weather
Sun, solar wind, aurora images
and the latest data