Category Archives: Space participation

Amateur/Student Satellite, DIY space, Space participation

Kickstarter for PocketQuebes – pocket sized satellites

October 7, 2013 TopSpacer

The Glasgow based PocketQube Shop has opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund their PocketQubes sats: Want to build a satellite but don’t have a NASA sized budget? by PocketQube Shop — Kickstarter

PocketQubes are tiny satellites which are small enough to fit in your Pocket. They are 5cm cubes and you can stack them up to create larger satellites, for example 1.5 PocketQubes or 1.5p and 2.5p. Why go small? They are cheapest fully functional class of satellite to launch.

The standard was proposed by Professor Bob Twiggs, creator of the revolutionary Cubesat form factor and voted as one of 10 space professionals “That made a Difference in Space” (The other two selected from the United States were Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and the US President, Barack Obama).

At the end of November the first 4 PocketQubes will be launched into Orbit from Russia! There will be more going next year.

This Kickstarter is focused upon structures, the building blocks of any satellite. We want to enable as many teams as possible to start designing, building and launching their own satellite today!!

That is why we are offering you a chance to support the NewSpace revolution, with T-Shirts, 3D Printed Models and Aluminium Structures for your first satellite project!

DIY space, Rockets, Space participation

Copenhagen Suborbitals: CS wins FAI Breitling Milestone Trophy

October 5, 2013 TopSpacer

Congratulations to the Copenhagen Suborbitals team on winning the Milestone Trophy in the FAI-Breitling Awards for 2013: FAI Breitling Award Goes to Copenhagen Suborbitals – Wired Science.

The jury gave this statement for the decision:

“Copenhagen Suborbitals have achieved an outstanding performance and contribution to astronautics by designing, building and launching the world’s first amateur built full size rocket with full computer control and steering – based completely upon amateurs and donations.

The results has been achieved from nothing – and this has demanded the highest level of vision, patience, and creativity, organizational and technical skills in different areas from computer programming to economics and funding.

The way of thinking, working and the way of sharing information in aeronautics has never been seen before, and can change the way we interact with others and the way we travel in space.”

Space camps & hands on sims, Space participation

A report on a trip to the Adult Space Academy at Space Camp USA

October 5, 2013 TopSpacer

The author of this article gives an entertaining account of participating in the Adult Space Academy program at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama: From ‘moonwalking’ to landing a space shuttle, the Adult Space Academy in Huntsville, Ala., gives the starry-eyed a taste of what it’s like to train as an astronaut. – latimes.com.

Activism, General, Space participation

The new SEDS NOVA on line magazine

October 4, 2013 TopSpacer

SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) have revamped their NOVA newsletter into an on line resource: NOVA | The Official Publication of SEDS-USA

Fellow explorers,

We at SEDS-USA are thrilled to relaunch the NOVA as an online publication. Historically, the NOVA has functioned as a newsletter among SEDS chapters since 1996. The publication has evolved through various forms into a bi-annual magazine.

This year, we are changing things up and establishing the NOVA as an online platform for student space articles and related artistic pieces. We want to open the SEDS community to showcase work by space enthusiasts from across the globe. Feel free to explore the new site and check out our archived publications!

Ad Astra,
Ekaterina Khvostova
Editor in Chief of NOVA