Video: JP Aerospace mission highlights

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This video shows highlights of the six April 2013 JP Aerospace high altitude flights, which carried a total of 2400 PongSats for students: Mission Highlights Video – JP Aerospace Blog

Amateur/Student Satellite, Space Systems

ESTCube, now in orbit, to test E-Sail propulsion

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The Estonian student Cubesat project ESTCube successfully reached orbit via a Vega rocket this week:

Space country Estonia: satellite ESTCube-1 was launched to orbit and said hello from the space! – Baltic Review
Vega Launch Report | Europe’s Vega launcher succeeds on second launch – SpaceflightNow.com

Paul Gilster writes about the E-sail propulsion concept, developed by Pekka Janhunen of Finland, which will be tested by ESTCube: To Ride the Solar Wind.

Activism, Space films and videos, The Moon

Interview with space activist Christopher Carson

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Lunar settlement advocate Christopher Carson (Luna Project) has a prominent role in the documentary Lunarcy! (2012). Moonandback spoke with him at the recent Space Access ’13 conference in Phoenix:

Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

The Rocket Company: Chapters 4-7

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I continue the serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:

Download these within the next week. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.

See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.