by m0xtd | Apr 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Bob Bruninga WB4APR reports on the 2nd Party Balloon mission, carrying APRS and a 2.4 GHz wireless camera, that took place Friday, April 27. Everything possible went wrong! A disaster of monstrous proportions. But finally got it all working and just wanted it gone! ...
by m0xtd | Apr 28, 2012 | Daily Updates
Lopez-Alegria is a former NASA astronaut, International Space Station commander and test pilot. A four-time astronaut he holds three NASA records incl longest spaceflight; 215 days! Michael will share his extraordinary story and gaze into the future of spaceflight as...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
BBC News report on Skylon, designed to be an unpiloted spaceplane by the UK company Reaction Engines Limited (REL). It uses a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket engine to reach orbit in a single stage. The report by BBC Science correspondent Jonathan Amos along with...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students at the Naval Postgraduate School have developed an auxiliary payload platform that will permit the launch of as many as 24 cubesats at a time. AMSAT News Service reports that the NPS CubeSat Launcher is designed to release satellites one at a time by opening...
by m0xtd | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
On the anniversary of the launch of Ariel-1, April 26, the UK Space Agency and the Science Museum co-hosted a two-day conference celebrating 50 years of the UK in space. It brought together those who started the UK on the road to being a world-renowned centre for...
by Peter Goodhall | Apr 27, 2012 | Daily Updates
On the anniversary of the launch of Ariel-1, April 26, the UK Space Agency and the Science Museum co-hosted a two-day conference celebrating 50 years of the UK in space. It brought together those who started the UK on the road to being a world-renowned centre for...
