Monthly Archives: April 2013

Contests and Games, Space participation

KLM contest offers space trip prize

KLM Airline has opened a contest for a ride on the XCOR Lynx suborbital spaceplane: KLM – Claim Your Place in Space

On April 22nd 2013, KLM will give you a chance to win the ultimate journey of inspiration — a flight into space.

In an exclusive competition, KLM will be launching a high altitude balloon in the Nevada desert. All you have to do is simply predict how high the balloon will reach before it pops!

The winner will receive a ticket aboard the zero gravity SXC Lynx Spacecraft. A true once in a lifetime experience!

Visit http://space.klm.com/ for a chance to claim your place in space.

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Radio

AMSAT and ISS amateur radio news

Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS.

ANS 104 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – April 13, 2013:
* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Solicited
* 7330.6 km Contact Made Via FO-29
* GS3PYE/p Satellite Operation Planned From Inner Herbrides Islands
* STEREO Space Weather Beacons Now Using AMSAT-DL Turbo Code
* AMSAT Awards
* Applications for Teachers Institute, ETP Grants Due in May
* Ken Pulfer, VE3PU, SK
* Cubesat Launches This Week
* April 17 Antares Launch Includes Three PhoneSat Cubesats
* PhoneSat Tracking Help Requested
* STRaND-1 signal reports requested
* Merritt Island High School Mission Selected for NASA Cubesat
Launch Initiative
* ARISS News
* Schedule of AMSAT Activities at Dayton Hamvention
* Satellite Shorts From All Over

Activism

The Space Show this week

Here are the programs on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, April 15, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): No show today as I am teaching my UND Space Studies class.

2. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2013, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome DR. BILL FARRAND, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute. We will be discussing Mars Rovers and much more. Note that the toll free line will not be available for this program as I will be doing the program from a Los Angeles area hotel room.

3. Friday, April 19, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PST (11:30- 1 PM CST, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EST): No show as I am out of town on personal medical matters.

4. Sunday, April 21, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). No program today due to planned travel back home.

See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

Space Systems

Hacking the high frontier

 

Satellites are not immune from hackers. It appears at least one has been briefly taken over: Hacking satellites – H+Magazine.com  – April.3.1 (via Ralph Ewig)
Space Science

A Mars rover in The New Yorker

has an interesting, well-written article about the Curiosity Rover, with lots of background info on the science involved, along with profiles of some leading participants in the project: The Martian Chroniclers: A new era in planetary exploration – The New Yorker.