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..
Here is the second Virtual
SpaceTV 3D show, which was created by BINARY
SPACE with story content from HobbySpace.
The virtual presenter Amanda Bush reports on the recent
Russian Progress launch failure and its impact on the
ISS, on the SNC Dream Chaser, and on the Voyager II
probe:
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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 Space Adventures/Armadillo
Aerospace Suborbital Space Experience
Several companies are preparing to offers
suborbital flights to space for daring people
who wish to experience the thrill of rocket
flight, seeing the earth from 100 km and
enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness.
Space
Adventures and Armadillo
Aerospace have partnered to provide
such flights using a vehicle built by Armadillo
that would take off vertically and land
either with rocket power or in combination
with rocket and parachutes. The video below
depicts how such a flight might proceed:
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
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