Archives for the 'space businesses' Category
Sea Launch to launch again
Published on 12 Nov 2007 at 3:24 pm.
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Sea Launch, a joint venture between Boeing, Energia, Aker Kvaevner, and Yuzhnoye is an interesting company. They use Russian Zenit rockets to launch satellites into space. But, unlike other, more standard, launch systems, which use a fixed launch site, Sea Launch launches these rockets from a converted offshore drilling platform.
There are several very […]
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Beaming Power from Space
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 9:09 pm.
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Filed under solar energy, space businesses, space exploration.
For about five months, a collaborative study on Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) was conducted for the National Security Space Office. The text of that report is available here. You might wonder what solar power has to do with national security. Well, I’ll get to that a bit later. Suffice it to say that this […]
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Genesis II in Orbit
Published on 2 Jul 2007 at 8:53 am.
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Last week, a Russian Dnepr rocket lifted off carrying an American company’s space station early prototype module. Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis II seems to be doing quite well. Bigelow has an interesting idea. They are using inflatable modules. The idea is that a collapsed module can be launched on heavy launch vehicles […]
Space Tourism Safety
Published on 30 May 2007 at 11:48 pm.
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Outer space is a dangerous place. Humans are not designed to live in space. When in space, you are subjected to radiation exposure far greater than you get on Earth, the lack of gravity causes bloating and loss of bone mass, and many people become disoriented. There is no air in space, so you need […]
Suborbital Space Tourism
Published on 25 May 2007 at 11:50 pm.
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One of the presentations this morning was from Alex Tai of Virgin Galactic. For those that don’t know, Virgin Galactic is part of Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies, and it’s goal is to provide private suborbital trips into space for anyone who can pay. The two hour trip, which includes five minutes of weightlessness, will cost […]
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Burial in Space
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:02 am.
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In 1982, I went to see the movie Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan in the theater. Like many long time Trekies, I was shocked to find that Spock died in the movie. At the end of the movie was a scene where Spock was given a military funeral reminiscent of a […]
One Less Spaceport in Texas
Published on 2 Mar 2007 at 3:45 pm.
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Filed under rockets, space businesses.
Building a spaceport isn’t easy, as Brazoria County in Texas has figured out. I saw this story at the Personal Spaceflight blog and decided to comment on it.
It is clear that space is no longer only within the reach of big government space programs. More and more private aerospace businesses are being […]
