Two NASA Educational CubeSats
NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative program gives students the opportunity to build tiny satellites that are launched into orbit.
The educational CubeSat missions were selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative as part of the 14th installment of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) missions.
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NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative program gives students the opportunity to build tiny satellites that are launched into orbit.
The educational CubeSat missions were selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative as part of the 14th installment of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) missions.
Read full article here
Boarding Pass to Mars
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Calling all future explorers! Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering a front row seat to NASA’s Journey to Mars for free to fifth graders nationwide this summer, with an invitation for a full-day of adventure and fun. The offer is part of the Summer of Mars campaign designed to highlight the myriad experiences and activities available to guests that focus on the future of space exploration and Mars missions to inspire the next generation of space explorers at the place where it will launch. Get your pass here Space News
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Calling all future explorers! Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering a front row seat to NASA’s Journey to Mars for free to fifth graders nationwide this summer, with an invitation for a full-day of adventure and fun. The offer is part of the Summer of Mars campaign designed to highlight the myriad experiences and activities available to guests that focus on the future of space exploration and Mars missions to inspire the next generation of space explorers at the place where it will launch. Get your pass here Space News
New Space Ventures: A Global Opportunity
Rocket Lab’s May 25 inaugural test launch did not achieve all is objectives but the U.S.-New Zealand company brushed aside the shortfall as an inevitable part of a test campaign.
Rocket Lab closed a financing round in March that brought the company’s investment to $148 million from multiple venture capital firms including Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Data Collective, Kiwi and Promus Ventures.
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Rocket Lab’s May 25 inaugural test launch did not achieve all is objectives but the U.S.-New Zealand company brushed aside the shortfall as an inevitable part of a test campaign.
Rocket Lab closed a financing round in March that brought the company’s investment to $148 million from multiple venture capital firms including Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Data Collective, Kiwi and Promus Ventures.
Read full article at the Space News
Jeff Bezos Will Leave Richard Branson Behind in the Dust
Let’s face it: by any rational measure so-called space tourism is a preposterously frivolous idea. Nonetheless, hundreds of thrill-seekers were willing to pay around $2,300 a minute for the ride as soon as Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture was launched in 2005.
The first passenger-carrying flight was supposed to happen 10 years ago, in 2007.
It slipped to 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013…now…maybe… next year.
But if once it seemed like an idea whose time would never come (leaving aside for the moment the issue of whether it ever should) Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin team—not Branson — Read more at the Space News
Let’s face it: by any rational measure so-called space tourism is a preposterously frivolous idea. Nonetheless, hundreds of thrill-seekers were willing to pay around $2,300 a minute for the ride as soon as Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture was launched in 2005.
The first passenger-carrying flight was supposed to happen 10 years ago, in 2007.
It slipped to 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013…now…maybe… next year.
But if once it seemed like an idea whose time would never come (leaving aside for the moment the issue of whether it ever should) Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin team—not Branson — Read more at the Space News
The Asteroid Mission - OSIRIS-REx seeks answers to the questions that are central to the human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny?
Asteroids, the leftover debris from the solar system formation process, can answer these questions and teach us about the history of the sun and planets. |
500 New Space Startups by 2025
The Founder Institute plans to attract would-be space entrepreneurs to its worldwide network of incubators with generous financial incentives and mentorship from industry veterans. Read more at the Space News |
NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal AsteroidPsyche
NASA's Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 -- four years earlier than the original timeline. Read more at the Space News |
This Technology Could Help Us Build Huge Structures in Space
The nascent off-Earth manufacturing industry is getting set to take its next big steps. Made In Space, the California-based company that owns and operates the commercial 3-D printer aboard the International Space Station (ISS), is developing new technology - Read more at the Space News |
