Posted on September 15, 2011, at 9:20 am .
Sep 14, 2011 – Boulder, CO – The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) and Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) are proud to announce the Student NewSpace Business Plan Competition.
Specifically designed to give students a chance to enter the world of space entrepreneurship, this competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students with an idea for a frontier-enabling business. Competitors will pitch their space industry or space-scalable business proposal to a panel of investors and NewSpace leaders, and vie for the $1000 grand prize. The winner will also be automatically entered into the NewSpace Business Plan Competition held at the NewSpace 2012 Conference.
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Posted on August 1, 2011, at 12:51 pm .
Jon Goff with his Sticky Boom rendezvous and docking unit.
Congratulations to Jon Goff and his Altius Space Machines team for winning the $25,000 grand prize in the Space Frontier Foundation’s annual NewSpace Business Plan Competition.
The company won the award to help it develop the “Sticky Boom” rendezvous and docking technology that does not require a spacecraft to have a docking port. The company plans to use this technology to deliver small payloads to the International Space Station, capture a sample return vehicle in martian orbit, and remove debris from Earth orbit.
Other winners included:
Celestial Circuits: $5,000
Celestial Circuits is developing a commercial line of command and control computers for Nanoracks, Cubesats and other small micgravity experiments. The plug-and-play units will range from $500 to $5,000 and will be used on everything from experiments on drop-tower and parabolic aircraft flights to the International Space Station.
Final Frontier Design: $2,500
FFD’s goal is to design, test and manufacture space suits for the commercial market. Their focus is on functional pressure restraint garment design and prototyping, especially for gloves.
Posted on July 29, 2011, at 11:39 am .
The Space Frontier Foundation had an Irish wake for the NASA’s Ares rocket program last night. This poster explains their antipathy toward the program.
In reality, the Ares I rocket is dead, although ATK is trying to resurrect it as a commercial rocket using an Ariane 5 upper stage. The Ares V (the larger rocket in the photo) should have been listed as a survivor; it has morphed into the Congressional-mandated Space Launch System.
Posted on July 26, 2011, at 6:35 pm .
The Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2011 Conference will run from Thursday to Saturday at the NASA Ames Conference Center.
I’ll be covering it from start to finish, so look for my updates here at PA and via Twitter at @spacecom. The hashtag for the event is #NewSpace2011.
My friends Ben and Cariann will be live streaming all the events at www.Spacevidcast.com. The coverage details are:
Dates:
Thursday, July 28 to Saturday, July 30
Hours:
Sessions: 8-8:30 a.m. to 5-6 p.m. PDT (check schedule)
Gala Dinner: Saturday, 6-10 p.m. PDT
The #NewSpaceTweetup will be held at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View on Friday, July 29 from 7-10 p.m. PDT.
For full information, please visit the conference website. For updates, follow the conference on Twitter @NewSpaceCon.
Posted on July 21, 2011, at 10:53 am .
Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver
NASA & SFF PR – NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will provide opening keynote remarks at the Space Frontier Foundation’s annual NewSpace Conference at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 28. Media are invited to attend the conference, which runs July 28-30 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
NewSpace provides a forum for space entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, engineers, regulators and space policy leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges of opening the space frontier to human settlement.
This year’s theme, “The Next Big Thing,” focuses on the near and long-term potential and challenges of the emerging commercial space industry.
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Posted on July 14, 2011, at 9:59 am .
SFF PR – Silicon Valley, CA - The Space Frontier Foundation is proud to honor this year’s movers and shakers in the NewSpace industry. These brilliant award winners represent the best of commercial space business, entertainment, and media. Their awards will be presented at the NewSpace Awards Gala, where the NewSpace Business Plan Competition and We-Are-Space Video Contest winners will also be announced. The Gala is on Saturday night, July 30th, at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA, and we hope you will join us in celebrating these stars.
Tickets are limited and available for purchase online now. The Gala is a highlight of the NewSpace 2011 Conference. Conference panels will take place at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, CA on July 28-30. Please view the full description of the awards and winner online.
Here are the 2011 NewSpace Award Winners! Drumroll, please…
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Posted on February 22, 2011, at 12:33 pm .
SFF PRESS RELEASE
On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, the TEDxMidTownNY headline speaker will be Tom Shelley, Vice President of Space Adventures, Ltd., the only company providing human space missions to the world marketplace. He will provide an “Overview of the Human Spaceflight Training Market.†Tom will share his insights and discuss developments in commercial space transportation and other related industries.
The second speaker for this event will be Noah Zerkin, Research Engineer in the Neurology Department at the Human Aerospace Lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Noah designs and fabricates prototype sensor modules for automated mobile neurovestibular evaluation of human subjects who have spent extended periods in microgravity (i.e. at the International Space Station). Noah is also the inventor and developer of the Zerkin Glove, a low cost glove for interacting with virtual objects in an augmented environment, and the author of Augmentation featuring his views on the coming AR revolution.
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Posted on February 10, 2011, at 2:57 pm .
SFF ANNOUNCEMENT
Members of the Space Frontier Foundation are headed to Washington on March 6-8, 2011 to urge Congress to “Keep the Promise” when it comes to supporting the new US commercial space industry. The group is inviting all supporters and friends of America’s space efforts to show up and speak up in defense of innovative budget saving initiatives like NASA’s Commercial Crew program, and warn Congress about the damage it will do if it does not act to support this critical new approach to space.
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Posted on February 8, 2011, at 6:00 am .
SFF PRESS RELEASE
In the Summer of 2011, Teachers in Space will offer five one-week professional-development workshops for high-school science, technology, engineering, and math teachers. Teachers in Space project manager Edward Wright announced the workshops during the final session of the Space Exploration Educators Conference, which took place here today.
“Next summer, teachers will have opportunities to experience unpowered aircraft flight with a former NASA Shuttle commander, to fly a flight simulator for the next generation of reusable spacecraft, to study the effects of high-altitude flight in a university altitude chamber, and to build experiments that will fly on a suborbital vehicle,†Wright said.
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Posted on February 7, 2011, at 5:00 am .
Masten's Xombie vehicle
SFF PRESS RELEASE
In the summer of 2011, high-school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers will have the chance to fly experiments on an early unmanned flight of a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The Excelsior STEM mission was announced here today by Teachers in Space, a nonprofit project of the Space Frontier Foundation.
Speaking at the annual Space Exploration Educators Conference, Teachers in Space project manager Edward Wright said “Excelsior STEM will provide a historic opportunity for high-school STEM teachers to gain hands-on experience with space-science hardware.â€
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