Ted Semon posts a report on the presentations given on Saturday at the Space Elevator Conference underway this weekend at the Museum of Flight in Seattle: 2013 Space Elevator Conference – Day 2 – The Space Elevator Blog.
Here was his report on the Friday talks: 2013 Space Elevator Conference – Day 1 – The Space Elevator Blog.
The annual Space Elevator Conference, sponsored by ISEC (International Space Elevator Consortium) is underway this weekend at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Here is a report on the Friday presentations: 2013 Space Elevator Conference – Day 1 – The Space Elevator Blog.
The NASA JSC Project Morpheus is out today for another tethered flight test of their vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle – Twitter / MorpheusLander:
Sporting a good luck halo this morning, so it must be a great day for a tether test! Follow along for updates! pic.twitter.com/VzYUc4tS5D
Follow updates throughout the day at Morpheus Lander (MorpheusLander) on Twitter.
Here’s an announcement of an upcoming symposium in the Netherlands on private spaceflight:
Private Commercial Spaceflight in the 21st Century: Vehicles and Payload
Date: Sept. 5, 2013
Location: Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Symposium organized by AlphaSparks Space Transportation and NVR.
Preliminary Programme
12:45-13:10 Welcome
13:10-13:15 Introduction – AlphaSparks / NVR
13:15-14:00 SXC/XCOR Lynx I and Lynx II flights – H. van Hulten (SXC)
14:00-14:45 SpaceShipTwo suborbital flights – K. Stephens (Virgin Galactic)
14:45-15:30 Swiss Space Systems – P. Jaussi (Swiss Space Systems)
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Regulating commercial spaceflight in the EU – M. Gerhard (EASA)
16:30-17:15 Brokering payload for spaceflight – A. Wielders / R. Schonenborg (AS)
17:15-17:30 End of the symposium
Target audience: potential customers of commercial private spaceflight and space professionals in general
Registration fee: € 25,= (including 21% VAT)
Please register before August 30th by email to secretariaat@ruimtevaart-nvr.nl. You will receive payment instructions with your confirmation email.
With support from NSO and SpaceNed.
The venue of the symposium is the oldest museum of the Netherlands: The Teylers Museum.
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See also the Private Spaceflight Symposium flyer (pdf) at Dutch Dimensions | NASA – A Human Adventure Exhibition
The Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress event in Dallas is over but you can watch the many interesting talks via Youtube. The videos span many talks over many hours but you can use the Schedule to find the general location of a particular talk and then skip ahead to that spot on the time bar.
[ Update: Harold “Sonny” White works on advanced propulsion at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and he has gotten a lot of attention on his research into warp drive concepts: Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive – New Scientist.
He was a keynote speaker on Day 3 of the Starship Congress: Dr Harold “Sonny” White: “Warp Field Physics: An Update” – Icarus Interstellar. His presentation can be seen on the Day 3 video.]
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Update Aug.30.13: The program schedule now has links directly from each talk to the position on the video where it starts: Schedule | Icarus Interstellar