Webcast: NASA Innovative Advance Concepts Symposium – live updates on latest projects

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funds studies into all sorts of cool and often “crazy” ideas that just might work. This week  (Mon-Wed) at the NIAC Symposium in Denver, Colorado, leaders of funded project will give updates on their studies. The presentations are being webcast live at 2017 NIAC Symposium on Livestream – Here is the agenda (pdf).

Videos: “The Dawn of Private Space Science” – symposium presentations

A symposium at Columbia University this weekend focused on “The Dawn of Private Space Science“. Videos of the many interesting talks are posted at Fiat Physica – Facebook. Here is a sampling: ** Pete Worden gave an update on the Breakthrough Initiatives, one of which is the development of a system to send tiny spacecraft to a … Continue reading Videos: “The Dawn of Private Space Science” – symposium presentations

Interstellar laser driven lightsails, planetary defense, and the Voices of Humanity Kickstarter

The Planetary Radio program had a recent interesting interview with  Philip Lubin, Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara, and Travis Brashears, an undergrad at UC Berkeley, about their proposal to accelerate a tiny wafer sized lightsail spacecraft up to 10-25% of the speed of light using an array of lasers and sending the sail to a nearby star: Interstellar … Continue reading Interstellar laser driven lightsails, planetary defense, and the Voices of Humanity Kickstarter

‘Hedgehog’ robot may someday hop, tumble, and flip to explore a comet or asteroid

A hopping cube may be the best way to explore a small asteroid or comet: ‘Hedgehog’ Robots Hop, Tumble in Microgravity Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can’t operate upside-down. But on … Continue reading ‘Hedgehog’ robot may someday hop, tumble, and flip to explore a comet or asteroid

Videos: TMRO Space Pod reports on KSC mods, Comet hitchhiking, X-15 and X-37B, & animal astros

More TMRO.tv Space Pod short reports. TMRO Space Pods are crowd funded shows. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over tohttp://www.patreon.com/spacepod for information, goals and reward levels. Don’t forget to check out our weekly live show campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/tmro * NASA is Maximizing Kennedy … Continue reading Videos: TMRO Space Pod reports on KSC mods, Comet hitchhiking, X-15 and X-37B, & animal astros