ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
NASA Radar returns first high-resolution view of an unusual crater near Moon’s north pole. Mini-RF, a synthetic aperture radar on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, recently imaged a potentially ice-rich crater near the north pole of the Moon. Located at
SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California recently in the first capture flight test with a pilot on board. The double-hulled WhiteKnight2 lifted the commercial suborbital vehicle into the blue desert skies July 16th and did some manouvering before
Rocketplane Global has been barely hanging on the last couple of years since its orbital counterpart, Rocketplane Global, lost its NASA COTS award and the financial crisis dried up the investment market. The company, in particular vice president Chuck Lauer,
NASA and Steam have released Moonbase Alpha, a “first-person explorer” game where players join an exploration team in a futuristic 3D settlement on the south pole of the Moon. “In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday June 17, @12:39PM from the bringing-home-the-bacon dept. FleaPlus writes: “Following up on the successful first launch of their Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX has signed a $492M deal for launching several dozen satellites for the Iridium
Attending: Attending were: Julie P, Dan S, Gerald N, Stellan L, Michael W & Stu C Call to order: The meeting was called to order at 1238 Prescott Ave. by President Julie Porter at 20:07 Tuesday 15 June 2010
The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According to JAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place.
Latest News from the Google Lunar X PRIZE Week of June 1 – 7, 2010 http://www.googlelunarxprize.org Welcome to the Google Lunar X PRIZE Newsletter. This is a weekly brief about the competition that will be sent every Wednesday. HEADLINES OF THE WEEK
XCOR’s Mark Street makes an adjustment to a fitting on the pump apparatus prior to an LH2 test. June 8th, 2010, Mojave, CA, USA and Littleton, CO, USA: XCOR Aerospace, the developer of the Lynx, a manned suborbital spacecraft and
Space Exploration’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle made it’s first flight at 11:45am PDT today, lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 after a few delays (for FTS telemetry and a sailboat in the exclusion zone) and