Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Nanosat Mission Ideas, Wild Card Winner, FIRST, TARC Kit, More

March Madness -- Moonbuggy-style - NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Blog

Estes releases new Team America parts assortment packs - Rocketry Planet

Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #42 - Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration

Students Compete in Lego Robotics Challenge at JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Robotics ingenuity on the spot: FIRST competition draws student teams to WPI - Telegram.com

New chief executive officer for space company - Isleofman.com on Odyssey Moon

Conrad Foundation announces first ever Wild Card Invitation Winner - Conrad Foundation

EuSEC - Looking for a few good teams… - The Space Elevator Blog

There’s an app for that! - The Space Elevator Blog

Economist: Beam it up - The Space Elevator Reference

@LaserMotive: LaserMotive will be pitching to the Space Angels Network March 31st in LA and Palo Alto: http://bit.ly/dFEzv9

@ac_charania: 1st Nano-sat Constellation Mission Idea Contest, 1st place: Integrated Meteorological/Precise Positioning Mission http://bit.ly/hL4lMS

Here's the Nano-satellite Constellation Mission Idea Contest site where you can find out more about the winners and other finalists.  In addition to prize money and publication, the finalists were invited to present at the 2nd Nano-Satellite Symposium in Tokyo.  The rest of that symposium has been canceled because of effects of the recent earthquake, but per A.C. Charania's tweets, a second Nanosat Constellation Mission Idea Contest is planned for 2012.