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Posted by Vidvuds Beldavs
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More than 30 years have passed since I developed and taught the course Space Industrialization and National Priorities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1977. The enabling technologies to achieve the space industrialization vision of Gerard K. O’Neil’s High Frontier have been developed and refined. Yet the results have fallen far short of that vision notwithstanding its technological feasibility.
The primary weakness that I see with US space policy is that it is far too timid. The manned space budget at 300 million is roughly in parity with the budget for fusion research.
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Posted by Stephen Ashworth
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I should like to offer a cautious welcome to the new British Space Agency, announced by Lord Drayson on 10 December.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404213.stm)
Apparently there is to be a competition to create a name and a logo. Some have suggested it should be called the Royal Space Agency. I am totally unable to understand the idea to link it to the archaic institution of the royal family -- I know of nothing they've done to promote it, and the Prince of Wales is well-known for his anti-technology views.
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Today, Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) announced the establishment of the ZERO-G WEIGHTLESS LAB. The specially designed two-day program provides the only commercial access to Martian, Lunar, zero and hyper gravity environments for scientific research. The program is open to academic, corporate and government agency applicants.
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On Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 11:15 CET, the research rocket Rexus 8 (Rocket EXperiment for University Students), a joint project of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), launched from SSC's Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, in Sweden. Students from the Technical Universities of Berlin (Technische Universitaet Berlin; TUB) and Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen; TUM) and from the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan; KTH) in Stockholm used the flight to conduct satellite communication experiments and also tested a newly-developed descent probe. The rocket reached an altitude of 88 kilometres during its flight. Rexus 7 was launched just two days earlier, on 2 March.
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The Canadian Space Commerce Association will be holding its annual meeting in Toronto on Tuesday, March 16th with the theme "The Growing Canadian Commercial Space Sector". The meeting will bring together businesses, academics, entrepreneurs, government agencies as well as students to hear and interact with leading experts from the Canadian space sector.
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Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow" -- to twice the distance originally reported.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. and Orbit Technology Group announced today that they have completed integration for Satellite Communications On-The-Move (SOTM) solutions to serve a wide range of industries.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is holding a symposium titled "Expectations for Climate Change Monitoring using Earth Observation Satellites" on April 15, (Thursday) 2010, at the Hotel Pacific Tokyo.
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Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, a consultancy focusing on network management and security, high-end routing and design, switching, VoIP, Unified Communications, QoS, MPLS, IP multicast, course and lab development, is pleased to announce Terry Slattery - CCIE # 1026, is among four other network security experts presenting at Satellite 2010. The topic of their discussion is: Securing Your Network: Protecting your Operations, Content and Assets.
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NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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For years, ESA has been bringing space technologies down to Earth through its Technology Transfer Programme and Business Incubation initiatives. Now, the Agency will strengthen these initiatives by supporting new businesses using space innovations through a dedicated venture capital fund.
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The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite joins four other similar spacecrafts to improve weather forecasting and monitoring of environmental events.
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