Every year, researchers calculate, two tons of Martian material rain down on Earth” (TIME)
For the Global Hawk Pacific campaign, the robotic aircraft will carry ten science instruments that will sample the chemical composition of air in the troposphere (the atmospheric layer closest to Earth) and the stratosphere (the layer above the troposphere). The mission will also observe clouds and aerosol particles in the troposphere. The primary purpose of the mission is to collect observations that can be used to check the accuracy of simultaneous observations collected by NASA’s Aura satellite.
As part of the next phase in advancing suborbital research opportunities and their own flight preparations, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have begun a new element of spaceflight training with a series of jet fighter flights in F-104 aircraft operated by Starfighters Inc. at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The first SwRI Starfighters flights and the associated ground training, took place March 15-16.
On Friday March 26, Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on the TRA/NAR motion for recovery of the legal fees we incurred in our successful nine-year case against BATFE regulation of APCP. The judge rejected the government’s argument that we were not entitled to any reimbursement for our attorneys fees.
However, he ruled that we will only be reimbursed based on the artificially low hourly legal rates established for use in federal court cases, and only for legal work performed after the Court of Appeals remanded the case back to Judge Walton in 2006, including legal work on the fee recovery motion itself.
The amount will likely be less than half of the $196K that we had requested (the amount we requested if the court would not grant recovery at an enhanced fee rate), but will still be substantial. The exact amount corresponding to the judge's decision has not yet been calculated. This re-calculation will need to be re-submitted to the judge by April 16, and for payment at some date yet to be established after an April 30 BATFE response to our submission.
Ken Good
President
Tripoli Rocketry Association
Trip BarberPresident
National Association of Rocketry
A German firm called "Style Your Garage" - creates posters for garage doors that make it look as if it's actually showing the interior of your garage, and what's in it!
Prices range from $199 to $399 for the double-door! All but guaranteed to make passersby take a second look!
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| A late 1970s proposal by Rockwell International for an air-launched spaceplane. The craft would be extracted via parachute from a C-5 Galaxy transport. The engine would be adapted from a Space Shuttle Main Engine. The spaceplane was based upon the FDL-5A lifting body shape. (Source: Carl Ehrlich) |
Bummer day crashed rocket and favorite food place in cal city(xspot) closed til further notice.
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| With the world's smallest monocopter: (Photo by Evan Ulrich/A. James Clark School of Engineering, U-Md.) |
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| By teaching intro engineering with better hovercraft. |
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| Takayuki Hoshino & Shinji Matsui, Himeji Institute |
Nano Space - The final frontier. The space ship Enterprise NCC-1701D of Star Trek was fabricated in one-billionth scale by 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion- beam CVD using phenanthrene gas. Length 8.8 µm.
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| HP-G75 Metalstorm 29mm sparky SU |
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| RMS-24/120 |
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| RMS-EZ disposable pre-loaded adjustable delay bulkhead for 38mm RMS motors |
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| F30FJ and F31R 24mm |
How far off the earth's surface does life exist, and what is the nature of the organisms that live there?
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| Teknika Molodezhi - USSR, 1955. |
For more than two decades, The New Mexico Museum of Space History, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, has been developing the “New Mexico Space Trail”. Beginning as a listing of sites within the state that have contributed to man’s exploration of space, from archeoastronomy sites to NASA facilities, it soon became apparent that New Mexico has always had space! Forty seven sites have been identified to date, and include sand paintings of the Navajo, the petroglyphs of the Zuni, the rock alignments at Wizard’s Roost in the Sacramento Mountains (similar to the much larger site of Stonehenge), astronaut training sites like Zuni Salt Lake, the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Grande Gorge area. Where else but New Mexico can the footprints of Spaniards who trekked the El Camino Real cross the path of future astronauts at Spaceport America?The museum is producing a series of 52 three-minute radio programs, live radio call in programs and supporting promotional material to present the state's rich space history. This first program is available in its entirety at http://www.alamoam.com, click on the link for Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The second live radio program is scheduled for August 10, 2010, also on KRSY 1230 AM.
