Space policy review and ITAR reform
/-- President Orders Sweeping U.S. Space Policy Review
/-- Obama ITAR Reform Could Move Satellites Back To Commerce
07/02/09 06:31 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Space policy
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/-- President Orders Sweeping U.S. Space Policy Review
/-- Obama ITAR Reform Could Move Satellites Back To Commerce
Notes on RAeS Space Tourism conference
07/02/09 12:39 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Private spaceflight, space tourism
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Briefs: Video about XCOR; SS2 rocket motor testing
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Rob Coppinger reviews what is learned from the info in the Rocket Motor 2 testing log posted yesterday at Scaled: SpaceShip Two rocket motor testing revealed - Flight Global.
07/02/09 10:07 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Transport Companies
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Briefs: Chartered Soyuz update; Tethered Armadillo
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I hope this is not because Russell did something bad to Mod or Pixel.
07/02/09 02:04 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category NewSpace
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Briefs: NASA manager's alternative to Ares; HSF panel log
Includes a video animation of the system.
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The website for the Augustine panel includes a page with a log of their activities: See What The Committee Is Doing. There is also a Twitter account and one at Facebook.
07/02/09 01:46 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category NASA
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SpaceShipTwo rocket motor tests log
07/01/09 01:21 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Transport Companies
Space tourism meeting Q&A
/-- [XCOR] and Space Adventures Q&A
/-- Spaceports speak up Q&A
/-- Astrium and Galactic Q&A
07/01/09 12:31 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Private spaceflight, space tourism
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Briefs: India/Russia space partnership; MOST update
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The Canadian MOST (The Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars) micro-satellite reaches its sixth year of operation: MSCI-Microsat Systems MOST, Canada's Space Telescope, Celebrates Birthday Number Six - MSCI - June.30.09. See also MOST: Canada's First Space Telescope. I'll note that space info storehouse Henry Spencer was the Software Architect for the mission.
07/01/09 12:14 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category World Space Transport
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NewSpace 2009 speakers
See also the meeting Agenda.
07/01/09 11:15 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Events
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Briefs: Kourou report; HSF ini Alabama
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The Augustine panel visited NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville and the ULA facility in Decatur, Alabama last week. Human space flight review panel updates Web site with Huntsville information - al.com.
Some pictures from their trip: Site Visit Week of June 22-26, 2009 - a set on Flickr.
Briefs: UK space tourism; Guinness space tourism prize;
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Guinness includes a space tourism prize as part of its 250 year anniversary celebration: Guinness offers drinkers chance to win space flight: Guinness has launched a competition offering drinkers the chance to win a trip into space aboard Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spacecraft - Telegraph (via Jeff Foust).
More info on the Guinness space tourism contest is available at 250 - Remarkable Experiences.
07/01/09 10:40 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Private spaceflight, space tourism
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Briefs: SBSP in Japan; DIRECT v.3 video
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A video illustrating the latest iteration of the DIRECT Launcher design: Shuttle-to-DIRECTv3 - The Original Rocket Dungeon - June.30.09.
07/01/09 02:32 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category General
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Briefs: Commercial space rise; Geospace policy
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J. Paul Douglas suggests turning over operations in Geospace (the "region that spans the radiation environment from the Sun to Earth’s upper atmosphere") to NOAA: A Different Way of Doing Things - SpaceTalk NOW - June.30.09
07/01/09 02:27 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category General
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Firm to lease low cost microsats to the military
build and launch relatively small and inexpensive commercial satellites that would be optimized for military use and leased only to military customers, according to Mark Albrecht, the company's chairman and co-founder.Orbital Sciences is one of the backers of the company and the satellites would be launched on its rockets.
07/01/09 02:22 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Military Space
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Ariane launch of TerreStar;
/-- Mission Update - Ariane 5 moves to the launch pad with TerreStar-1 for Arianespace’s third launch of 2009 - Arianespace
/-- Largest commercial telecommunications satellite ever - Examiner - June.30.09
TerreStar-1 was built by Space Systems/Loral for TerreStar Networks and will use 500 spot beams "to provide voice, data and video communications to satellite/terrestrial mobile devices the size of a typical smart phone".
You can watch the launch Arianespace - VideoCorner at 12:14 pm ET.
Ken Davidian is in Kourou and posting about launch preparations on his CSWiki Twitter account.
06/30/09 08:30 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Rockets
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Swedish spaceport update
06/30/09 06:07 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Spaceports
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Briefs: Space Fellowship makeover; June Horizons
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Also check out the latest issue (pdf) of AIAA-Houston Horizons magazine. It includes a discussion with Ross Tierney about the latest iteration of the DIRECT launcher proposal. There's also a short article about Daniel Adamo's Lunar Surface Rendezvous (LSR) architecture for accessing the Moon.
Richard Garriott inteview
Rob also posts the following review of Garriott's talk at the space tourism meeting:
Space tourist Richard Garriott giving an awesome talk about his ISS flight
06/30/09 12:14 PM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Private spaceflight, space tourism
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Briefs: Northrop Grumann demos lunar descent engine; Space suit designer
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An interesting interview with Bill Elkins, who is still active in space suit design more than fifty years after he first got into the business: Space Suits Past and Future: Bill Elkins has been outfitting astronauts since before NASA was born - Air & Space Magazine - June.10.09. See also this article about Elkins and a space suit spinoff: Gearing up for the Big Game and More - NASA Tech Briefs - Jan.1.04,
06/30/09 11:16 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category Space Technology
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Briefs: Space law round-up; Space prizes round-up
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The latest Space Prizes blog collection of space competition elated items: Prize Update: June 28-30 (Part 1?) - Regolith Challenges, Singularity U, More Twitter, Human Space Flight Commission Advice - Space Prizes.
06/30/09 10:47 AM | Posted by TopSpacer | Category General
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