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..
The following Virtual SpaceTV 3D show was created
by BINARY
SPACE with content from HobbySpace.
The virtual presenter Amanda Bush reports on three recent
news stories about water on Mars, the launch of the
Juno science mission to Jupiter, and the Atlas V rocket.
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This video is intended as a demonstration 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
Space
Hobbies & Activities in the Spotlight
Space Modeling
Space
modeling involves building scale versions
of rocket and spacecraft and collecting
pre-built replicas. You can build space
models from plastic
kits, card
paper plans, LEGO
blocks, or from your own imagination
with scratch parts.
Plans for their models will eventually
be sold on the site Aerospace
Bricker.
Collecting high quality replicas
of famous rockets and spacecraft like the
Apollo Lunar Lander is also a popular hobby.
This video shows how space replica building
became full time jobs at Bigelow
Aerospace for some lucky space modelers:
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It's
a Whole New Outer Space Out There
The Commercial Spaceflight
Era
With the end of the Space Shuttle program,
NASA needs modern, cost-effective means
of getting to low earth orbit. The plan
currently is for the agency to work with
commercial spaceflight companies that can
provide multiple launch systems for getting
crews and cargo to the International Space
Station. They can also take crews to low
earth orbit for staging for missions beyond
earth orbit such as going to the Moon, asteroids
or Mars.
See this BBC
article for descriptions of the launch
systems from the companies currently co-sharing
development costs with NASA. These companies
include Blue
Origin, Boeing,
ULA,
SNC,
and SpaceX.
This promotional video comes from the Commercial
Spaceflight Federation and describes
the coming generation of commercial space
transportation systems:
.. Commercial Spaceflight: The Great Adventure
of the 21st Century
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