A new batch of Space Pod reports from TMRO.tv:
* Neutrinos are Awesome – Space Pod 04/13/15
* The New Vulcan Rocket – Space Pod 04/14/15
* 3D printing in space and the student built Vulcan-1 Engine – Space Pod 04/15/15
* SpaceX Launches CRS-6 with a Bang – Space Pod 04/16/15
Three PhD student researchers in engineering at the University of Leuven (Belgium) founded SpaceBillboard.com. Their plan is to sell squares on a grid on the side on the side of a small CubeSat spacecraft where companies can place ads or logos and individuals can put personal messages.
SpaceBillboard sells advertisement space on a billboard that will be launched into space on board of a satellite. This will be the first advertisement platform ever to pass the boundary of space. The revenues of this project will be used to sponsor space research at the University of Leuven. But this is not just charity. This unique story will go around the world as well.
The money raised from the billboards will go for space research:
SpaceBillboard supports innovative space research. More precisely, we want to support research on CubeSats. The first CubeSats were developed as student projects in universities, but by now, space agencies such as NASA and ESA have recognized their potential. But what makes them so special?
The annual Space Access Society conference has long been my favorite space event. Hope to see you at this year’s gathering in Phoenix:
Space Access ’15 Conference April 30th – May 2nd
at the Radisson Hotel Phoenix North
Space Access Society‘s next annual conference on the business, technology, and politics of radically cheaper access to space will feature a cross-section of the growing cheap access community, talking about what’s going on now and what will be happening next, in a fast-paced intensive informal atmosphere, single-track throughout so you don’t have to miss anything.
Confirmed launch-project & space-hardware presenters so far: Altius Space Machines, CubeCab, DARPA ALASA, Exos Aerospace, Frontier Astronautics, Masten Space Systems, Moon Express, Tethers Unlimited, XCOR Aerospace, XL Space Systems, plus sessions on what you’ll need to know to start your own space venture (rocket development safety, 3d printing hype & reality, complex-systems mission-assurance, government regulations, investment climate, NASA Ames and JSC commercial cooperation opportunities), reports on high-end student & amateur projects, talks by famous space writers/bloggers (Jeff Foust, Clark Lindsey, Doug Messier, Rand Simberg, Henry Spencer), and multiple sessions plus a special guest program segment about now that cheap orbital access is near, how do we start affordably taking the next big steps outwards to the Moon, Mars, and beyond?
Space Access conferences have been described as “Hackers” for rocket people, with better content than others costing many times more, two-and-a-half days of total immersion in making the future happen. This year’s edition, SA’15, is just a month away – register for the conference, get those airline tickets booked while they’re still cheap, reserve your room while our hotel still hasn’t filled up, and be there!
For the latest full conference info & agenda, see our SA’15 Info page.
JP Aerospace continues to find customers for high altitude commercials: Flying Margarita! – JP Aerospace Blog
JPA were tasked once again to show that space is for everybody! On National Margarita Day we send blenders, cameras and a particular famous mix to the edge of space.
The team travel to Arizona for this flight. Balloons were flown, margarita were mixed and frozen by the atmosphere itself and amazing video was created.
This brings our flight total to 176.
See also Jose Cuervo Mixes a Margarita in Space and Parachutes It Back to Earth – Adweek
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JPA also continues with its high altitude airship development: Ascender 26 Float Test – JP Aerospace Blog
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A part of Clyde Tombaugh will fly past Pluto, which he discovered in 1930: NASA probe to arrive at Pluto carrying ashes of Clyde Tombaugh – Telegraph.
Tombaugh died on January 17 1997, nine years and two days before New Horizon’s launch, but one of his final requests was for his ashes to be sent into space.
A small container carrying his remains is affixed to the insider of the upper deck of the probe bearing the inscription: “Interned herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system’s ‘third zone’”
A sample of the remains of famous space scientist Eugene Shoemaker also went to the Moon via the Lunar Prospector probe : ‘Burying’ a man on the moon – NBC News
The company Celestis, Inc. has arranged for space burials for quite a few people, including a number of celebrities.