The $3M Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge run by Space Florida has been issuing frequent updates recently. Here are some of them:
Weekly Update 7.6.2012 - on a logo contest that is now over (see the winner on their main page)
Blog Comment by Jacob Chancery - looking for a team to help
Weekly Update 6.11.2012 - update on rules, team forum, and judges - The forum doesn't have a lot of activity (yet?), but it has started with posts from Microlaunchers and Team Prometheus, among others.
Discover the Future of Space Exploration with X PRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis - Omaze:
Conrad Foundation News - July Newsletter, 2012 - Spirit of Innovation Challenge
24 hour Water Bottle rocket challenge - NASASpaceFlight.com topic, including a video, on an attempt to break the record for most water rockets launched globally in 24 hours
GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #1!
GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #2
GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE ROUNDUP #3 - Nick Azer at MyMoonSpace brings back the GLXP roundup series, starting the counting at 1, presumably because it's at MyMoonSpace and not Lunar C/I
Not Science Fiction, Science Reality, in the Palm of Your Hand - Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE blog
Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE - Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE blog
Changing the Conversation about the Economic Development of the Moon - Dennis Wingo features the COTS approach and prizes in this discussion.
Annual Space Elevator Conference Set for August 25-27 - Space Elevator Reference - This is at the Museum of Flight, and includes competitions like RoboQuest for kids and the Strong Tether NASA Centennial Challenge
International rocket challenge nets silver for U.S. teens - USA Today
@unrocket: Making larger canards for guided rocket test. pic.twitter.com/ZA780nv6
Showing posts with label X PRIZE Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label X PRIZE Foundation. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
X PRIZE Foundation Roundup: GLXP at GLEX, MoonBots 2012, Visioneering, Fighting Poverty, Lyme Diagnostics Tool
The X PRIZE Foundation has been quite active lately in the field of space prizes and other fields:
Tiptoeing back to the Moon - Jeff Foust at The Space Review gives an update on the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. Here is something to look forward to over the next few days:
The competition will be back in the spotlight somewhat this week with a joint NASA/GLXP announcement scheduled for Thursday morning during the Global Space Exploration (GLEX) conference in Washington, DC. The International Space Development Conference (ISDC), immediately following the GLEX conference in Washington, will also feature presentations about the competition.
According to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington DC (from SpaceRef), the announcement schedule is
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: NASA and Google Lunar X Prize Announcement, Grand Ballroom
Check the link for the times for the other Google Lunar X PRIZE activity at the GLEX conference, too.
MoonBots 2012 is Officially Open for Registration! - Leo Camacho at the Staff Blog
Engagement + Innovation = Visioneering 2012 - Peter Diamandis
Robin Hood Joins X PRIZE Foundation to Battle Poverty Worldwide - X PRIZE Foundation:
By engaging entrepreneurs and thought leaders from around the world in a series of global incentivized competitions, the two organizations aim to discover effective solutions to some of the most crippling aspects of poverty. These competitions will be the first of their kind designed specifically to battle poverty the world over. By offering a substantial prize and soliciting crowd-sourced solutions from around the globe, Robin Hood and X PRIZE hope to identify new approaches to battling poverty that can be put to the test via pilot programs in New York City.
Robin Hood Raises $57 Million to Fight Poverty in New York City: Announces Partnership with X PRIZE Foundation to Fund Global Poverty Solutions - X PRIZE Foundation press release:
By offering a substantial prize of at least $1 million and soliciting crowd-sourced solutions from teams and individuals around the globe, Robin Hood and the X PRIZE Foundation hope to identify effective new approaches to fighting poverty that can be put to the test via X PRIZEs in New York City with clear, measurable goals. ... In addition to the $19 million raised to fund the Robin Hood X PRIZE, Robin Hood also raised more than $38 million to fund its day-to-day poverty-fighting programs throughout New York City.
Tick-Borne Disease Alliance and X PRIZE Foundation Create “TBDA Diagnostic X PRIZE” Global Competition to Develop Fail-Safe Diagnostic Tool for Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases - X PRIZE Foundation press release
From X PRIZE Foundation on Facebook:
We’re ramping up for another groundbreaking Life Sciences competition – this one is all about digital healthcare. We’ll be unveiling it on Thursday, May 24 at 9:40 a.m. PT. Tune in to a live webcast right here!
Tiptoeing back to the Moon - Jeff Foust at The Space Review gives an update on the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. Here is something to look forward to over the next few days:
The competition will be back in the spotlight somewhat this week with a joint NASA/GLXP announcement scheduled for Thursday morning during the Global Space Exploration (GLEX) conference in Washington, DC. The International Space Development Conference (ISDC), immediately following the GLEX conference in Washington, will also feature presentations about the competition.
According to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington DC (from SpaceRef), the announcement schedule is
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: NASA and Google Lunar X Prize Announcement, Grand Ballroom
Check the link for the times for the other Google Lunar X PRIZE activity at the GLEX conference, too.
MoonBots 2012 is Officially Open for Registration! - Leo Camacho at the Staff Blog
Engagement + Innovation = Visioneering 2012 - Peter Diamandis
Robin Hood Joins X PRIZE Foundation to Battle Poverty Worldwide - X PRIZE Foundation:
By engaging entrepreneurs and thought leaders from around the world in a series of global incentivized competitions, the two organizations aim to discover effective solutions to some of the most crippling aspects of poverty. These competitions will be the first of their kind designed specifically to battle poverty the world over. By offering a substantial prize and soliciting crowd-sourced solutions from around the globe, Robin Hood and X PRIZE hope to identify new approaches to battling poverty that can be put to the test via pilot programs in New York City.
Robin Hood Raises $57 Million to Fight Poverty in New York City: Announces Partnership with X PRIZE Foundation to Fund Global Poverty Solutions - X PRIZE Foundation press release:
By offering a substantial prize of at least $1 million and soliciting crowd-sourced solutions from teams and individuals around the globe, Robin Hood and the X PRIZE Foundation hope to identify effective new approaches to fighting poverty that can be put to the test via X PRIZEs in New York City with clear, measurable goals. ... In addition to the $19 million raised to fund the Robin Hood X PRIZE, Robin Hood also raised more than $38 million to fund its day-to-day poverty-fighting programs throughout New York City.
Tick-Borne Disease Alliance and X PRIZE Foundation Create “TBDA Diagnostic X PRIZE” Global Competition to Develop Fail-Safe Diagnostic Tool for Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases - X PRIZE Foundation press release
From X PRIZE Foundation on Facebook:
We’re ramping up for another groundbreaking Life Sciences competition – this one is all about digital healthcare. We’ll be unveiling it on Thursday, May 24 at 9:40 a.m. PT. Tune in to a live webcast right here!
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Space Prize for DBAs, Copter Ropes, Sample Return Sponsors, Radical Benefit, Lots and Lots of Student Competions, More
Potential Sponsors for Competitors - Sample Return Robot Challenge
WPI Receives Accreditation for First-in-the-Nation Robotics Engineering Undergraduate Degree Program -Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI's management of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, the Regolith Excavation Challenge win, and FIRST Robotics competitions are all mentioned.
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NASA Sponsors 2011 Western Region Robotics Competition - NASA Ames
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Here's some recent information from the X PRIZE Foundation:
Welcome to the Blog - Archon Genomics X PRIZE:
... our team will be making a major announcement regarding this PRIZE on October 26, 2011 in New York City.
@PeterDiamandis: Great#xprize benefit, just recovering! Thanks to @wendySchmidt, @JamesCameron and @AliVelshi for amazing help. $2.7M raised to fund XPF!
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Mars Education Challenge Webinar #3 will be held by David Black - Explore Mars - The webinar will be held on October 24. Also:
Over the next couple of months, Explore Mare plans to have all of the other MEC winners present their materials in special webinars to help guarantee that these materials are as widely distributed as possible. We hope that these education webinars will also build up excitement about the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge was launched in September 2011.
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Gingrich calls for privatizing human spaceflight - Space Politics - Prizes are featured in Gingrich's proposal.
Newt Gingrich calls Space Launch System “disgraceful” pork - Space Frontier Foundation
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Student Rocketeers Wanted for World’s Largest Rocket Contest - The Aerospace Industries Association announces that the Team America Rocketry Challenge is open for registration.
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The following are all from Space for All:
NASA announces two microgravity contests for students - This is for the latest DIME and WING competitions.
IAA student art competition results
Jim Baen memorial contest for manned space sci-fi short stories
Reach for the Stars National Rocket Competition results
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SpaceVision 2011 - includes student biz plan competition - RLV News
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Military dangles prize for helicopter fast-rope solution - MSNBC:
Problem-solvers must create a device — added to or replacing a glove — that has enough grip on a "FAST" rope for a controlled descent by someone weighing 300 to 400 pounds with gear. It must also somehow dissipate the heat that builds up from the friction between glove and rope, and allow Special Forces operators, soldiers or Marines to fire their weapon as soon as they touch the ground.
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Database Admins! Red Gate Wants To Send One Of You INTO SPACE - TechCrunch
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E. Coli Testing Technology From Yale Engineers Could Save Thousands Of Lives - Huffington Post:
Weber told The Huffington Post that a prototype is still a year or so off, but the team's design was promising enough to take top honors at this year's NASA Tech Brief Engineering competition. It beat out 900 other designs from 50 countries for a $20,000 prize.
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NASA, NIA Announce 2012 Student Rover Contest - SpaceRef on the RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage) Exploration Robo-Ops Student Challenge
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10/15/2011: More Tether Testing - SpeedUp
... our team will be making a major announcement regarding this PRIZE on October 26, 2011 in New York City.
WPI Receives Accreditation for First-in-the-Nation Robotics Engineering Undergraduate Degree Program -Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI's management of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, the Regolith Excavation Challenge win, and FIRST Robotics competitions are all mentioned.
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NASA Sponsors 2011 Western Region Robotics Competition - NASA Ames
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Here's some recent information from the X PRIZE Foundation:
Welcome to the Blog - Archon Genomics X PRIZE:
... our team will be making a major announcement regarding this PRIZE on October 26, 2011 in New York City.
@PeterDiamandis: Great
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Mars Education Challenge Webinar #3 will be held by David Black - Explore Mars - The webinar will be held on October 24. Also:
Over the next couple of months, Explore Mare plans to have all of the other MEC winners present their materials in special webinars to help guarantee that these materials are as widely distributed as possible. We hope that these education webinars will also build up excitement about the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge was launched in September 2011.
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Gingrich calls for privatizing human spaceflight - Space Politics - Prizes are featured in Gingrich's proposal.
Newt Gingrich calls Space Launch System “disgraceful” pork - Space Frontier Foundation
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Student Rocketeers Wanted for World’s Largest Rocket Contest - The Aerospace Industries Association announces that the Team America Rocketry Challenge is open for registration.
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The following are all from Space for All:
NASA announces two microgravity contests for students - This is for the latest DIME and WING competitions.
IAA student art competition results
Jim Baen memorial contest for manned space sci-fi short stories
Reach for the Stars National Rocket Competition results
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SpaceVision 2011 - includes student biz plan competition - RLV News
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Military dangles prize for helicopter fast-rope solution - MSNBC:
Problem-solvers must create a device — added to or replacing a glove — that has enough grip on a "FAST" rope for a controlled descent by someone weighing 300 to 400 pounds with gear. It must also somehow dissipate the heat that builds up from the friction between glove and rope, and allow Special Forces operators, soldiers or Marines to fire their weapon as soon as they touch the ground.
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Database Admins! Red Gate Wants To Send One Of You INTO SPACE - TechCrunch
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E. Coli Testing Technology From Yale Engineers Could Save Thousands Of Lives - Huffington Post:
Weber told The Huffington Post that a prototype is still a year or so off, but the team's design was promising enough to take top honors at this year's NASA Tech Brief Engineering competition. It beat out 900 other designs from 50 countries for a $20,000 prize.
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NASA, NIA Announce 2012 Student Rover Contest - SpaceRef on the RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage) Exploration Robo-Ops Student Challenge
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10/15/2011: More Tether Testing - SpeedUp
... our team will be making a major announcement regarding this PRIZE on October 26, 2011 in New York City.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
FAA Trouble, YouTube Space Lab, Oil Spill Challenge, Why Do You Explore? Contest, Carmack Prize, More
Today, the Google Home Page features the YouTube Space Lab, so about a billion people should know about it by now. Just in case that isn't enough, I'll try to push it over the edge with this mention. The winning space experiment video will be performed on the International Space Station.
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House appropriators tell FAA to focus more on air than space - Space Politics - The affordable space access prize proposed by the FAA is one of the casualties.
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Illinois Team Wins Oil Spill Cleanup X CHALLENGE
Pictures: X PRIZE Contest Seeks Improved Oil Spill Cleanup - National Geographic
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NASA Funded Astronomer Wins Nobel Prize - NASA Watch
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Rocketry Winners Come to Washington - OSTP Blog - White House
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NASA Adds Some Numbers to Green Flight Challenge
AVweb Readers Weigh In on Electric Aircraft, Green Flight Challenge
Green Flight Challenge Winners
Green Flight Challenge – Days Three and Five
Green Flight Challenge – Day Two - CAFE Foundation Blog
The CAFE Foundation PhotoStream has pictures from the event.
NASA Contest Heralds Dawn of the Electric Plane - OSTP Blog - White House - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Three-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Sponsorship with Shell for Prizes Promoting Exploration of Space, Oceans and Land - X PRIZE Foundation press release - This includes the Why Do You Explore? video contest, with a grand prize of a $10,000 National Geographic Expedition, and 3 other prizes of Airship Ventures flights.
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Amateur Rocketeers Chase $10,000 Launch Prize Offered by John Carmack - Space.com
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House appropriators tell FAA to focus more on air than space - Space Politics - The affordable space access prize proposed by the FAA is one of the casualties.
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Illinois Team Wins Oil Spill Cleanup X CHALLENGE
Pictures: X PRIZE Contest Seeks Improved Oil Spill Cleanup - National Geographic
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NASA Funded Astronomer Wins Nobel Prize - NASA Watch
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Rocketry Winners Come to Washington - OSTP Blog - White House
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NASA Adds Some Numbers to Green Flight Challenge
AVweb Readers Weigh In on Electric Aircraft, Green Flight Challenge
Green Flight Challenge Winners
Green Flight Challenge – Days Three and Five
Green Flight Challenge – Day Two - CAFE Foundation Blog
The CAFE Foundation PhotoStream has pictures from the event.
NASA Contest Heralds Dawn of the Electric Plane - OSTP Blog - White House - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Three-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Sponsorship with Shell for Prizes Promoting Exploration of Space, Oceans and Land - X PRIZE Foundation press release - This includes the Why Do You Explore? video contest, with a grand prize of a $10,000 National Geographic Expedition, and 3 other prizes of Airship Ventures flights.
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Amateur Rocketeers Chase $10,000 Launch Prize Offered by John Carmack - Space.com
Friday, September 23, 2011
Another Centennial Challenges Update: Night Rover Allied Org, Green Flight Challenge Next Week, Radical Benefit, LaserMotive Week, More
NASA has picked the Cleantech Open as the Allied Organization to run the $1.5M Night Rover Centennial Challenge to collect solar energy and store it long enough to do productive work during the lunar night.
NASA and The Cleantech Open Partner in Robotics Challenge - NASA
Here's their Night Rover Challenge website. You will see there that Joshua Neubert, who was the Executive Director of the Conrad Foundation, is on the management team.
Challenge.gov also has a Night Rover Challenge page.
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Get ready for the NASA Green Flight Challenge run by the CAFE Foundation, and the subsequent Google Green Flight Challenge Expo at NASA Ames:
NASA is Painting the Skies Green Over Santa Rosa - NASA - It will be held at the Sonoma County Airport there.
NASA competition could lead to air taxis anyone can afford - Al.com
NASA, CAFE Foundation Host Google Green Flight Challenge Expo - NASA
Here's the Green Flight Challenge fact sheet. (PDF)
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It isn't strictly a Centennial Challenge, but I think of it as a product of the Regolith Excavation Challenge:
NASA 2012 Lunabotics Competition Open For Registration - NASA - The Lunabotics Mining Competition will be held May 21-26 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
NASA's Digital Learning Network will hold a webcast about the Lunabotics competition on September 27, 4:00 ET.
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The X PRIZE Foundation, which ran the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, will hold a Radical Benefit for Humanity on October 20.
Briefs: Speed Up update; Will Watson interview; Space regulation discussion panel - RLV News - SpeedUp was one of the Lunar Lander Challenge competitors. SpeedUp is now Ready for Tether Testing.
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The first winner of the Beam Power Centennial Challenge, LaserMotive, is in the news a lot lately:
Space Angels Network Invests in Wireless Power Beaming Company: LaserMotive, Inc. (PDF) - Space Angels Network
Lasermotive is in NASA power beaming project - RLV News
Could laser propulsion open up space? - Next Big Future has an interview with LaserMotive's Jordin Kare.
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It would be nice to get some discussion going at this NASASpaceflight.com forum post on the 2nd Nanosat Launcher Challenge Seminar.
NASA and The Cleantech Open Partner in Robotics Challenge - NASA
Here's their Night Rover Challenge website. You will see there that Joshua Neubert, who was the Executive Director of the Conrad Foundation, is on the management team.
Challenge.gov also has a Night Rover Challenge page.
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Get ready for the NASA Green Flight Challenge run by the CAFE Foundation, and the subsequent Google Green Flight Challenge Expo at NASA Ames:
NASA is Painting the Skies Green Over Santa Rosa - NASA - It will be held at the Sonoma County Airport there.
NASA competition could lead to air taxis anyone can afford - Al.com
NASA, CAFE Foundation Host Google Green Flight Challenge Expo - NASA
Here's the Green Flight Challenge fact sheet. (PDF)
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It isn't strictly a Centennial Challenge, but I think of it as a product of the Regolith Excavation Challenge:
NASA 2012 Lunabotics Competition Open For Registration - NASA - The Lunabotics Mining Competition will be held May 21-26 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
NASA's Digital Learning Network will hold a webcast about the Lunabotics competition on September 27, 4:00 ET.
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The X PRIZE Foundation, which ran the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, will hold a Radical Benefit for Humanity on October 20.
Briefs: Speed Up update; Will Watson interview; Space regulation discussion panel - RLV News - SpeedUp was one of the Lunar Lander Challenge competitors. SpeedUp is now Ready for Tether Testing.
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The first winner of the Beam Power Centennial Challenge, LaserMotive, is in the news a lot lately:
Space Angels Network Invests in Wireless Power Beaming Company: LaserMotive, Inc. (PDF) - Space Angels Network
Lasermotive is in NASA power beaming project - RLV News
Could laser propulsion open up space? - Next Big Future has an interview with LaserMotive's Jordin Kare.
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It would be nice to get some discussion going at this NASASpaceflight.com forum post on the 2nd Nanosat Launcher Challenge Seminar.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Prize Roundup: Suborbital Sweepstakes, XHab, SFF First Prize, NASA Day, CanSat, More
Students rocket to Cross Plains for hands-on competition - Reporter News reports on the 2011 CanSat competition in Texas.
LaserMotive to Present at NASA Day on the Hill - LaserMotive
@spacehack: The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is open for a few more weeks: http://is.gd/zUyPyj (thx @basilleaf)
SFF Announces $25,000 First Prize for the NewSpace Business Plan Competition - Space Frontier Foundation
NASA Offers Grants For 2012 University Competitions - NASA - This is for the 2012 University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) and Lunabotics Mining Competition.
Students Build Space Habitats at NASA's Johnson Space Center - NASA
Visioneering Workshop 2011: VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE X PRIZE CONCEPT! - X PRIZE Foundation
7-Eleven announces sweepstakes with space prizes - RLV News
KSC Star Trek exhibit sweepstakes offers Lynx ride prize - RLV News
LaserMotive to Present at NASA Day on the Hill - LaserMotive
@spacehack: The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is open for a few more weeks: http://is.gd/zUyPyj (thx @basilleaf)
SFF Announces $25,000 First Prize for the NewSpace Business Plan Competition - Space Frontier Foundation
NASA Offers Grants For 2012 University Competitions - NASA - This is for the 2012 University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) and Lunabotics Mining Competition.
Students Build Space Habitats at NASA's Johnson Space Center - NASA
Visioneering Workshop 2011: VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE X PRIZE CONCEPT! - X PRIZE Foundation
7-Eleven announces sweepstakes with space prizes - RLV News
KSC Star Trek exhibit sweepstakes offers Lynx ride prize - RLV News
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Prize Roundup: JPL National Science Bowl, Beamed Energy Propulsion, Xoie Art, Glove Project, More
Unreasonable update - RLV News
Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers - TechCrunch
National Science Bowl ® - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL is hosting the Southern California regional competition on Saturday, January 22.
Beamed energy propulsion update - RLV News - Jordin Kare from LaserMotive is featured in the article.
@pomerantz: You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we'd sure love to give a prize. Some updates to the prize groups at http://www.xprize.org/
If you check out the Exploration Prize Group, you'll see that one of the proposed prize concepts is
Beamed Power Propulsion
Nearly all launches to date have relied on chemical propulsion, carried on board the vehicle, and thereby sharply reducing payload mass fraction. Beamed power offers a radically alternative launch strategy. Payload launch costs to orbit will drop by a factor of 50 or more. The goal is to launch a 10 Kg payload to a 30Km altitude, deriving 100% of its energy from a ground-based beamed power system. The system must also be reusable and repeatable within 24 hours.
The full set of concepts, covering aviation, space and ocean exploration, includes
The winner of the Space Life competition will be the first team that can create a single or multi-cellular edible organism that can grow under standard Martian surface conditions.
@flyingjenny: My latest creation: a needle felted Xoie by Masten Space Systems, Lunar Lander Challenge winner http://post.ly/1W6VN
See, here's the @Xprize X on Xoie: http://post.ly/1W6jz
From the winner of the Astronaut Glove Challenge:
@pkhomer: Heading home from HOU. Just kicked off a new glove project for @NASA.
@InnoCentiveCEO: Cool! Our new book is on Amazon for pre order even know won't be out for months! http://amzn.to/hn1o4k
@Prize4Life: Support Prize4Life! Contribute to Mark and Lionel’s fundraising effort for the Grand Traverse ski race! http://fb.me/O1oRkrXt
Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers - TechCrunch
National Science Bowl ® - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL is hosting the Southern California regional competition on Saturday, January 22.
Beamed energy propulsion update - RLV News - Jordin Kare from LaserMotive is featured in the article.
@pomerantz: You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we'd sure love to give a prize. Some updates to the prize groups at http://www.xprize.org/
If you check out the Exploration Prize Group, you'll see that one of the proposed prize concepts is
Beamed Power Propulsion
Nearly all launches to date have relied on chemical propulsion, carried on board the vehicle, and thereby sharply reducing payload mass fraction. Beamed power offers a radically alternative launch strategy. Payload launch costs to orbit will drop by a factor of 50 or more. The goal is to launch a 10 Kg payload to a 30Km altitude, deriving 100% of its energy from a ground-based beamed power system. The system must also be reusable and repeatable within 24 hours.
The full set of concepts, covering aviation, space and ocean exploration, includes
- Asteroid Deflection
- Beamed Power Propulsion
- Crater Exploration
- Deep Human Submersible
- Electric Aviation
- Lunar Lander
- Ocean Explorer Platform
- Ocean Floor Mapping
- Ocean pH Sensor
- Orbital Debris Removal
- Personal Electric Autonomous Air Transporter
- Reaction Engine
- Suborbital
- Wolfram Physics
The winner of the Space Life competition will be the first team that can create a single or multi-cellular edible organism that can grow under standard Martian surface conditions.
@flyingjenny: My latest creation: a needle felted Xoie by Masten Space Systems, Lunar Lander Challenge winner http://post.ly/1W6VN
See, here's the @Xprize X on Xoie: http://post.ly/1W6jz
From the winner of the Astronaut Glove Challenge:
@pkhomer: Heading home from HOU. Just kicked off a new glove project for @NASA.
@InnoCentiveCEO: Cool! Our new book is on Amazon for pre order even know won't be out for months! http://amzn.to/hn1o4k
@Prize4Life: Support Prize4Life! Contribute to Mark and Lionel’s fundraising effort for the Grand Traverse ski race! http://fb.me/O1oRkrXt
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Prize Twitter Roundup: Space Craft and Art, NASA Tournament Lab, Better Gloves, ZeroG, NSRC, New GLXP Teams?
Don't be fooled by the first tweet below; it's from yesterday:
@lasermotive: Tom will be presenting at the First Look Forum this afternoon: http://bit.ly/aA5ygt
LaserMotive not only made the first cut to the final 5, but was chosen as Runner-Up (2nd place) at the First Look Forum. #NWEN
@peterdiamandis: Just landed after an awesome ZeroG flight. Everyone did great! Cameron loved the experience. We raised a bit over $200K to support X PRIZE.
I edited this next tweet to include the whole message rather than let Twitter's character limit cut it off with a link to the rest of the message near the end:
@teamprometheus: Working on new propellant for NSE-6 we will be doing some test rockoon launches this month! NSE-5.1 will be the first rockoon launch. We need to gather data for our flight controller programing. Working on a special coating to get the rocket to fire at 100kft.
@lasermotive: Tom will be presenting at the First Look Forum this afternoon: http://bit.ly/aA5ygt
LaserMotive not only made the first cut to the final 5, but was chosen as Runner-Up (2nd place) at the First Look Forum. #NWEN
@peterdiamandis: Just landed after an awesome ZeroG flight. Everyone did great! Cameron loved the experience. We raised a bit over $200K to support X PRIZE.
I edited this next tweet to include the whole message rather than let Twitter's character limit cut it off with a link to the rest of the message near the end:
@teamprometheus: Working on new propellant for NSE-6 we will be doing some test rockoon launches this month! NSE-5.1 will be the first rockoon launch. We need to gather data for our flight controller programing. Working on a special coating to get the rocket to fire at 100kft.
Finished Rotor http://fb.me/HgS9mWmB
@nasa_technology: NASA Establishes Tournament Lab For Software Developers http://bit.ly/dhAISE
From the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) site:
NASA and Harvard University have established the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), which will enable software developers to compete with each other to create the best computer code for NASA systems.
The NTL provides an online virtual facility for NASA researchers with a computational or complex data processing challenge to "order" a solution, just like they would order laboratory tests or supplies.
@nasa_technology: Lending a hand http://t.co/eBoLN7Q MIT research look into why spacesuit gloves hurt astros’ hands. w/ @NASA glove challenge winner @pkhomer
From the MIT News article Lending a hand: MIT researchers may be closer to understanding why spacesuit gloves hurt astronauts’ hands.:
“The study points to a different cause [of delamination] and a different way to deal with it,” said Peter Homer, founder of spacesuit-design company Flagsuit LLC, who is working with NASA and commercial companies to develop gloves for the next-generation spacesuit. “We need to look more closely at what is going on with the MCP joint,” he said, noting that the sizing and fit of the gloves around the MCP joint should be considered more closely in future designs.
Here's a note about the Space Craft Contest for making original art with a NASA theme:
@lori_garver: Crafty? NASA and Etsy team up: http://bit.ly/a7t0ka Rules and how to enter: http://www.etsy.com/nasa/enter.php
@Newspacenews: National Geographic documentary on Virgin Galactic debuts next week. http://bit.ly/8Ztych #space #newspace
Here's some information about possible new Google Lunar X PRIZE teams:
@pomerantz: RT @Rocketeer_UK: UK Lunar X-Prize team: Call for Interest http://tinyurl.com/2fs5c65
@csete @mrdoornbos Puli is not yet fully registered, but we do have a fully registered "Mystery" / unannounced Team - so 23 is right.
Finally, I have a couple more twitter accounts to follow, including 1 for the team Will mentioned:
@PuliSpace: Twitter Bio: Puli Space Technologies is a Hungary based team aiming to land a self-made rover on the Moon. Follow us and get to know how the Puli rockets into space.
@NSRC2011: Hi there-- I'm the Twitter page for the Next Gen Suborbital Researchers Conference to be held 28 Feb to 2 March next year in Orlando!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Prize Roundup: XHab Award, Zero-G Benefit, CRuSR Test Flights, ARLISS, Lunar Architecture, More
Today is the "anticipated award date" for the inflatable structure eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, and we already have:
@glxp: Congrats! RT @nathanpwong: Just found out my team got accepted for the xhab competition.
A Personal Odyssey - Bob Richards: B-LOG - Musings on our Future in Space, Earth and Life.
Armadillo Aerospace & Masten Space to get $475k from NASA - RLV News
ZERO-G flight with James Cameron benefits X-PRIZE Foundation - RLV News
Google Lunar X-Prize teams progress - Lunar Networks
Moon Capital: A Commercial Gateway to the Moon - Commercial Space Gateway gives another look at this competition I mentioned in the previous post.
Weare NH Project ARLISS - The Goffstown Edge
X PRIZE, Govt. of India & IIT Delhi Announce Partnership to Create Global Competition to Develop Clean-Burning Cookstoves - X PRIZE Foundation press release
@glxp: Congrats! RT @nathanpwong: Just found out my team got accepted for the xhab competition.
A Personal Odyssey - Bob Richards: B-LOG - Musings on our Future in Space, Earth and Life.
Armadillo Aerospace & Masten Space to get $475k from NASA - RLV News
ZERO-G flight with James Cameron benefits X-PRIZE Foundation - RLV News
Google Lunar X-Prize teams progress - Lunar Networks
Moon Capital: A Commercial Gateway to the Moon - Commercial Space Gateway gives another look at this competition I mentioned in the previous post.
Weare NH Project ARLISS - The Goffstown Edge
X PRIZE, Govt. of India & IIT Delhi Announce Partnership to Create Global Competition to Develop Clean-Burning Cookstoves - X PRIZE Foundation press release
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Vision Circle and Radical Benefit for Humanity
The next five years of the X Prize - CNET:
In addition, it's planning on four other specific X Prizes: the AI Physician X Prize, which will be won by the first team to build an artificial intelligence system that can offer a medical diagnosis as good as or better than a diagnosis from a group of 10 board-certified doctors; the Autonomous Automobile X Prize, which will go to a team that designs a car capable of beating a top-seeded driver in a Gran Prix race; an unnamed X Prize for generating an organ from a terminal patient's own stem cells, transplanting the organ into the patient, and having that person live for a year; and another unnamed prize for building a deep-sea submersible that scientists could use to explore the ocean floor and gather complex data.
Here's more about the X PRIZE meeting and Radical Benefit for Humanity the article discusses:
@PeterDiamandis: Working hard on Human 2.0 X Prizes w great group... Dean Kamen, Ratan Tata, Scott Hassan, Daniel Kraft, Andrew Hessel. Very Cool ideas!
Top ideas in Human 2.0- Bionic Legs, Diabetes, Stem Cell, Robotics, Martian life...
energy XP concepts: Robo Car competition; Solar Design Challenge- Making solar beautiful+ integrated; the ePod- Radically push storage tech
Top 3 x prize concepts voted by advisors, trustees + donors: 1)Low Cost Housing, 2)AI Physician, + 3)Bionics X Legs... Very cool.
X PRIZE Benefit last night @LucasFilm, big success. Great talk by Larry Page, Sergey Brin (by robot) and Robin Williams. Millions raised...
Thankful to Rob McEwen for $2M, Peter Farrell for $1M match, Scott Hassan, Sarah Brightman, Kimberly Swedy, Harry Diamandis, Rena David+more
In addition, it's planning on four other specific X Prizes: the AI Physician X Prize, which will be won by the first team to build an artificial intelligence system that can offer a medical diagnosis as good as or better than a diagnosis from a group of 10 board-certified doctors; the Autonomous Automobile X Prize, which will go to a team that designs a car capable of beating a top-seeded driver in a Gran Prix race; an unnamed X Prize for generating an organ from a terminal patient's own stem cells, transplanting the organ into the patient, and having that person live for a year; and another unnamed prize for building a deep-sea submersible that scientists could use to explore the ocean floor and gather complex data.
Here's more about the X PRIZE meeting and Radical Benefit for Humanity the article discusses:
@PeterDiamandis: Working hard on Human 2.0 X Prizes w great group... Dean Kamen, Ratan Tata, Scott Hassan, Daniel Kraft, Andrew Hessel. Very Cool ideas!
Top ideas in Human 2.0- Bionic Legs, Diabetes, Stem Cell, Robotics, Martian life...
energy XP concepts: Robo Car competition; Solar Design Challenge- Making solar beautiful+ integrated; the ePod- Radically push storage tech
Top 3 x prize concepts voted by advisors, trustees + donors: 1)Low Cost Housing, 2)AI Physician, + 3)Bionics X Legs... Very cool.
X PRIZE Benefit last night @LucasFilm, big success. Great talk by Larry Page, Sergey Brin (by robot) and Robin Williams. Millions raised...
Thankful to Rob McEwen for $2M, Peter Farrell for $1M match, Scott Hassan, Sarah Brightman, Kimberly Swedy, Harry Diamandis, Rena David+more
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Weekend Twitter Space Prize Roundup
Here's a stack of tweets I gathered over the last week or so, interspersed with a few comments.
@InnoCentiveCEO: NEw $20K NASA Challenge: Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial Research http://bit.ly/jHtV Very cool!
The deadline on that new NASA InnoCentive competition is April 26. From the challenge overview:
... but a much more revolutionary idea is the concept of Sensor Swarming, where the swarm itself exhibits ’emergent behavior’ or ’intelligence’. This Challenge asks solvers to develop and simulate a high performing sensor swarm coordinate protocol.
Check InnoCentive's NASA Innovation Pavilion to keep up to date on all of their NASA challenges.
InnoCentive has many other innovation competitions. Here's one:
@InnoCentiveCEO: New $100K Competition: Predictive Data Analysis http://bit.ly/bXLs3c Teams Eligible!
@jetlab: Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics: Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a... http://bit.ly/chdgOI
This is on the Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition, part of FIRST. The competition will be held on Tuesday at JPL.
@glxp: Anousheh Ansari's new memoir, "My Dream of Stars", is now available on Amazon: http://bit.ly/bjsDCa
Here's a look back at the NASA Centennial Challenge recognition ceremony:
@Doug_Comstock: Check out images of all winning teams and allied organizations from last week's CC recognition event. http://tinyurl.com/CC-images-2-26-10
... and here's a 3-tweets-for-one collection from the winner of the 2009 Beam Power Centennial Challenge, showing that they're looking into business applications for their technology:
@LaserMotive: Tom is heading to San Diego today for a UAV conference. Power beaming could enable 'eternal' UAVs.
Here's the UAV conference website: http://www.ttcus.com/view-conference.cfm?id=138
Day one of the UAV conference went well. Tom spoke to a number of people about power beaming for UAVs, and they were very interested.
The neXt PRIZE blog has been active lately. This brings our attention to the most recent post there:
@Pomerantz: A new blog post my from colleagues in Prize Development: http://bit.ly/aqyDRp "PRIZE Development - Where It All Begins..." #XPRIZE
The post compares the X PRIZEs to X CHALLENGEs:
... An X CHALLENGE, on the other hand, is a prize of up to $2.5M, awarded for solving a well-defined technical problem that has no clear path to a solution or is perceived as difficult. Unlike an X PRIZE, which seeks to stimulate or catalyze an entire market (including the social and regulatory aspects of that market), an X CHALLENGE seeks to produce a breakthrough technological or behavioral solution to a specific market need.
I'm sure most of you have seen this news:
@Odyssey_Moon: Odyssey_Moon Chief Scientist Paul Spudis says >1.3 trillion lbs of water at Moon's north pole http://bit.ly/aWO17s @GLXP
The mass isn't the only consideration. Here's a comment from Dr. Spudis at NASA Watch:
The ice we're seeing is nearly pure and is located within the interiors of craters with diameters of 2-15 km. It's at least a couple meters thick, with maybe 50 cm of dry regolith on top of it.
To a mining engineer, it's almost the perfect ore body.
Dr. Spudis gives more details here: Ice at the north pole of the Moon - The Once and Future Moon (Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine)
Here are some updates from a couple of N Prize teams (Team Prometheus is also participating with Team FREDNET in the Google Lunar X PRIZE):
@TeamPrometheus: We have aquired a 24' Box Truck for Missiom Control. http://www.teamprometheus.org/ http://bit.ly/a0NTmv
@ValkyrieFed: We will be at the Montreal Twestival, March 25th, at the Bain Mathieu!
The next few tweets show what some of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge teams are doing after the competition:
@unrocket: Have to build new tethers and cat pack, then fly blue ball again. Hoped to be ready for FAR on the 6th, now thinking 20th, taking my time.
@glxp: http://twitpic.com/15p641 - The @unrocket folks are here with Blue! Here is the venue #spaceup
This video made me think that maybe Masten Space Systems should have taken the name of one of their NG-LLC competitors, SpeedUp:
@wikkit: Two hours of work in two minutes: taking apart #ngllc winning rocket Xoie in December: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ny7uRcapU
@wikkit: The sexy aeroshell design I came up with didn't survive today's analysis. This whole having an atomsphere thing, it's tricky.
The link in the following tweet is to a COSMIC LOG article, "Inventors take the prize", that covers the Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize Program:
@Pomerantz: I'm partial to incentive prizes, but the other kind work well, too! http://bit.ly/bnxm0d (via @b0yle)
@Eurospaceward: Abstracts due May 15 for the newly announced Pearson and Artsutanov SE Prizes, paper deadline July 1, 2010. Contest details: www.isec.info
Here are more details from the ISEC Prizes page:
ISEC has created these prizes to foster research about topics related to building a Space Elevator. ... The Pearson Prize is open to all college undergraduate students currently enrolled in a two or four year undergraduate curriculum. Papers submitted for the Pearson prize must have a specific theme as its topic. For 2010, this theme is "Space Debris Mitigation". ... The Artsutanov prize is open to all entrants and papers can be on any space-elevator related subject.
The winner of the Pearson Prize will win a cash award of $1,500 while the winner of the Artsutanov Prize will win a cash award of $2,500. In addition, the winners (one per paper in case of multiple authors of a single paper) will be invited to the 2010 Space Elevator Conference to present their papers and to receive their award. ISEC will reimburse the winner's travel and hotel expenses ...
@InnoCentiveCEO: NEw $20K NASA Challenge: Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial Research http://bit.ly/jHtV Very cool!
The deadline on that new NASA InnoCentive competition is April 26. From the challenge overview:
... but a much more revolutionary idea is the concept of Sensor Swarming, where the swarm itself exhibits ’emergent behavior’ or ’intelligence’. This Challenge asks solvers to develop and simulate a high performing sensor swarm coordinate protocol.
Check InnoCentive's NASA Innovation Pavilion to keep up to date on all of their NASA challenges.
InnoCentive has many other innovation competitions. Here's one:
@InnoCentiveCEO: New $100K Competition: Predictive Data Analysis http://bit.ly/bXLs3c Teams Eligible!
@jetlab: Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics: Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a... http://bit.ly/chdgOI
This is on the Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition, part of FIRST. The competition will be held on Tuesday at JPL.
@glxp: Anousheh Ansari's new memoir, "My Dream of Stars", is now available on Amazon: http://bit.ly/bjsDCa
Here's a look back at the NASA Centennial Challenge recognition ceremony:
@Doug_Comstock: Check out images of all winning teams and allied organizations from last week's CC recognition event. http://tinyurl.com/CC-images-2-26-10
... and here's a 3-tweets-for-one collection from the winner of the 2009 Beam Power Centennial Challenge, showing that they're looking into business applications for their technology:
@LaserMotive: Tom is heading to San Diego today for a UAV conference. Power beaming could enable 'eternal' UAVs.
Here's the UAV conference website: http://www.ttcus.com/view-conference.cfm?id=138
Day one of the UAV conference went well. Tom spoke to a number of people about power beaming for UAVs, and they were very interested.
The neXt PRIZE blog has been active lately. This brings our attention to the most recent post there:
@Pomerantz: A new blog post my from colleagues in Prize Development: http://bit.ly/aqyDRp "PRIZE Development - Where It All Begins..." #XPRIZE
The post compares the X PRIZEs to X CHALLENGEs:
... An X CHALLENGE, on the other hand, is a prize of up to $2.5M, awarded for solving a well-defined technical problem that has no clear path to a solution or is perceived as difficult. Unlike an X PRIZE, which seeks to stimulate or catalyze an entire market (including the social and regulatory aspects of that market), an X CHALLENGE seeks to produce a breakthrough technological or behavioral solution to a specific market need.
I'm sure most of you have seen this news:
@Odyssey_Moon: Odyssey_Moon Chief Scientist Paul Spudis says >1.3 trillion lbs of water at Moon's north pole http://bit.ly/aWO17s @GLXP
The mass isn't the only consideration. Here's a comment from Dr. Spudis at NASA Watch:
The ice we're seeing is nearly pure and is located within the interiors of craters with diameters of 2-15 km. It's at least a couple meters thick, with maybe 50 cm of dry regolith on top of it.
To a mining engineer, it's almost the perfect ore body.
Dr. Spudis gives more details here: Ice at the north pole of the Moon - The Once and Future Moon (Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine)
Here are some updates from a couple of N Prize teams (Team Prometheus is also participating with Team FREDNET in the Google Lunar X PRIZE):
@TeamPrometheus: We have aquired a 24' Box Truck for Missiom Control. http://www.teamprometheus.org/ http://bit.ly/a0NTmv
@ValkyrieFed: We will be at the Montreal Twestival, March 25th, at the Bain Mathieu!
The next few tweets show what some of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge teams are doing after the competition:
@unrocket: Have to build new tethers and cat pack, then fly blue ball again. Hoped to be ready for FAR on the 6th, now thinking 20th, taking my time.
@glxp: http://twitpic.com/15p641 - The @unrocket folks are here with Blue! Here is the venue #spaceup
This video made me think that maybe Masten Space Systems should have taken the name of one of their NG-LLC competitors, SpeedUp:
@wikkit: Two hours of work in two minutes: taking apart #ngllc winning rocket Xoie in December: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ny7uRcapU
@wikkit: The sexy aeroshell design I came up with didn't survive today's analysis. This whole having an atomsphere thing, it's tricky.
The link in the following tweet is to a COSMIC LOG article, "Inventors take the prize", that covers the Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize Program:
@Pomerantz: I'm partial to incentive prizes, but the other kind work well, too! http://bit.ly/bnxm0d (via @b0yle)
@Eurospaceward: Abstracts due May 15 for the newly announced Pearson and Artsutanov SE Prizes, paper deadline July 1, 2010. Contest details: www.isec.info
Here are more details from the ISEC Prizes page:
ISEC has created these prizes to foster research about topics related to building a Space Elevator. ... The Pearson Prize is open to all college undergraduate students currently enrolled in a two or four year undergraduate curriculum. Papers submitted for the Pearson prize must have a specific theme as its topic. For 2010, this theme is "Space Debris Mitigation". ... The Artsutanov prize is open to all entrants and papers can be on any space-elevator related subject.
The winner of the Pearson Prize will win a cash award of $1,500 while the winner of the Artsutanov Prize will win a cash award of $2,500. In addition, the winners (one per paper in case of multiple authors of a single paper) will be invited to the 2010 Space Elevator Conference to present their papers and to receive their award. ISEC will reimburse the winner's travel and hotel expenses ...
Monday, September 07, 2009
Weekend Roundup: Weekend NGLLC Work by Masten and Unreasonable, Teaching with Contests, Robot SBIR, Heinlein Award Stories, More
Unreasonable plans -
Unreasonable update - RLV News on Unreasonable plans for the weekend, and on the good and bad things that happened
Briefs: X PRIZE history and status; More Hare raising concepts - RLV News links to a Wired UK article on the X PRIZEs
Teaching with Contests.com - This site has a lot of student and teacher prize content in all sorts of fields. Here are a few recent ones with space/science/technology themes:
750 Student Teams Wanted for World’s Largest Rocket Competition
ExploraVision Contest 2010 OPEN
NASA needs you! Apply today to become one of the new Solar System Ambassadors.
Heinlein Society Short Story Contest Winners - Science Fiction Awards Watch
Google Lunar X Prize Moonpie Winners - AstroTwitter
Here are some twitter updates:
@ARCAspace - Asociatia Romana pentru Cosmonautica si Aeronautica - ARCA anunta LANSAREA RACHETEI HELEN, PRIMA RACHETA SPATIALA ... http://bit.ly/1bifRh
@OmegaEnvoy - RT @4frontiers: Just submitted a NASA Phase 1 SBIR proposal on the usage of multi-touch surfaces to control robots. Wish us luck!
@wikkit - We dropped the rocket a few times, we came up with a solid theory on what's been going wrong; it's the best Monday in weeks.
@fineri - Igniter Test,http://bit.ly/8Je7r ,faster pulse on plug/use glow plug and smaller fuel/ox oriffices needed..V1.5 soon!
@ValkyrieFed - The Valkyrie Federation will be going to the Twestival local in Montreal: http://headandhands.ca/
Unreasonable update - RLV News on Unreasonable plans for the weekend, and on the good and bad things that happened
Briefs: X PRIZE history and status; More Hare raising concepts - RLV News links to a Wired UK article on the X PRIZEs
Teaching with Contests.com - This site has a lot of student and teacher prize content in all sorts of fields. Here are a few recent ones with space/science/technology themes:
750 Student Teams Wanted for World’s Largest Rocket Competition
ExploraVision Contest 2010 OPEN
NASA needs you! Apply today to become one of the new Solar System Ambassadors.
Heinlein Society Short Story Contest Winners - Science Fiction Awards Watch
Google Lunar X Prize Moonpie Winners - AstroTwitter
Here are some twitter updates:
@ARCAspace - Asociatia Romana pentru Cosmonautica si Aeronautica - ARCA anunta LANSAREA RACHETEI HELEN, PRIMA RACHETA SPATIALA ... http://bit.ly/1bifRh
@OmegaEnvoy - RT @4frontiers: Just submitted a NASA Phase 1 SBIR proposal on the usage of multi-touch surfaces to control robots. Wish us luck!
@wikkit - We dropped the rocket a few times, we came up with a solid theory on what's been going wrong; it's the best Monday in weeks.
@fineri - Igniter Test,http://bit.ly/8Je7r ,faster pulse on plug/use glow plug and smaller fuel/ox oriffices needed..V1.5 soon!
@ValkyrieFed - The Valkyrie Federation will be going to the Twestival local in Montreal: http://headandhands.ca/
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Space Prize Roundup: July 23, 2009: More Beam Power Tests, Newspace 2009 Video, Diamandis on I2I, Dutch Cansat, Astrobotic Heat, Conrad Sci Advisor
The news continues from the Space Elevator Games preparation and dry run week:
From the University of Alberta Space Elevator Racing Team:
Qualifications: Day 1
Qualifications: Day 2
... and from the Space Elevator Blog:
We're now live
King of the Road
The main event isn't far away ... August 5.
'incentive2innovate' (i2i) Conference Review - Peter Diamandis looks back at the I2I conference.
I ran across this interesting YouTube video: Team 9 QuADes - Dutch CanSat Competition - perspex chassis - When Team Quades was selected to participate in the Dutch CanSat-competition I saw the possibility to give my hobby, experimenting with 3d sofware, a purpose.What started as a fun pastime has grown into a enormous project. It took about 450 hours to build this animation and approx. 900 (!) hours of rendering.
team QuADes - I don't speak Dutch, but rocket hardware and obvious teamwork are spoken in a universal language.
Video from the Google Lunar X PRIZE Panel at NewSpace 2009 - Team Frednet at the Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams site offers video of a panel featuring a number of teams.
The countdown's on for humans to return to moon - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - This features Red Whittaker and David Gump from Astrobotic ...
Oakland firm refines rover designed to land on lunar soil, win $20M - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - ... and so does this: What's special about this prototype, said Astrobotic spokesman David Gump, is that it should be able to withstand the intense heat a lunar day exerts.
This is from an email mailing list notification from the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards:
The Conrad Foundation today announced Sigma Xi as the official Science Advisor of the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, will assist the Conrad Foundation by providing scientific guidance and mentorship to high school teams competing in the annual awards program.
From the University of Alberta Space Elevator Racing Team:
Qualifications: Day 1
Qualifications: Day 2
... and from the Space Elevator Blog:
We're now live
King of the Road
The main event isn't far away ... August 5.
'incentive2innovate' (i2i) Conference Review - Peter Diamandis looks back at the I2I conference.
I ran across this interesting YouTube video: Team 9 QuADes - Dutch CanSat Competition - perspex chassis - When Team Quades was selected to participate in the Dutch CanSat-competition I saw the possibility to give my hobby, experimenting with 3d sofware, a purpose.What started as a fun pastime has grown into a enormous project. It took about 450 hours to build this animation and approx. 900 (!) hours of rendering.
team QuADes - I don't speak Dutch, but rocket hardware and obvious teamwork are spoken in a universal language.
Video from the Google Lunar X PRIZE Panel at NewSpace 2009 - Team Frednet at the Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams site offers video of a panel featuring a number of teams.
The countdown's on for humans to return to moon - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - This features Red Whittaker and David Gump from Astrobotic ...
Oakland firm refines rover designed to land on lunar soil, win $20M - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - ... and so does this: What's special about this prototype, said Astrobotic spokesman David Gump, is that it should be able to withstand the intense heat a lunar day exerts.
This is from an email mailing list notification from the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards:
The Conrad Foundation today announced Sigma Xi as the official Science Advisor of the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, will assist the Conrad Foundation by providing scientific guidance and mentorship to high school teams competing in the annual awards program.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Prize Roundup - July 21-22, 2009: Flickr Moon, Lunar Lander and Lunar X PRIZE Updates, More Google Moon, NASA Lunar Science Forum, Aerial Robotics
New design overcomes intense lunar heat -David Gump, Astrobotic Technology - Is this related to the IPP Seed Fund award for CMU, Astrobotic, and LM?
International Aerial Robotics Competition - July 20-24, at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Check @nlsi - NASA Lunar Science Institute. I think I need to add it to the Twitter list. Here are some other tweats from the NLSI NLSI Lunar Science Forum:
@Regolith_Chal - Thanks @pomerantz for the shout out during your presentation during the @nlsi Lunar Science Forum! #lunarsci09
@Pomerantz - #GLXP team leader @Bob_Richards teases the announcement going out in the few hours--another new customer! Kudos!
3 Months to go and beyond. - Unreasonable Rocket ponders the 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge deadline, and next year's challenge:
What happens after 2009? If the any of the 180 second prizes are un-won we will obviously attempt that. Beyond that we want to work toward a reusable sub-orbital vehicle.
NG-LLC update - RLV News
Armadillo Methane/LOX untethered flight - RLV News
@glxp - The X PRIZE Foundation is now a member of the Next Step in Space coalition! http://www.nextstepinspace.com/index.html
More random moon stuff! The MyMoon Flickr contest: http://www.flickr.com/group... (thx @NLSI)
If you aren't already, check @Pomerantz and @glxp for lots more news.
Explore the moon in Google Earth - The Official Google Blog (posted by Anousheh Ansari)
International Aerial Robotics Competition - July 20-24, at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Check @nlsi - NASA Lunar Science Institute. I think I need to add it to the Twitter list. Here are some other tweats from the NLSI NLSI Lunar Science Forum:
@Regolith_Chal - Thanks @pomerantz for the shout out during your presentation during the @nlsi Lunar Science Forum! #lunarsci09
@Pomerantz - #GLXP team leader @Bob_Richards teases the announcement going out in the few hours--another new customer! Kudos!
3 Months to go and beyond. - Unreasonable Rocket ponders the 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge deadline, and next year's challenge:
What happens after 2009? If the any of the 180 second prizes are un-won we will obviously attempt that. Beyond that we want to work toward a reusable sub-orbital vehicle.
NG-LLC update - RLV News
Armadillo Methane/LOX untethered flight - RLV News
@glxp - The X PRIZE Foundation is now a member of the Next Step in Space coalition! http://www.nextstepinspace.com/index.html
More random moon stuff! The MyMoon Flickr contest: http://www.flickr.com/group... (thx @NLSI)
If you aren't already, check @Pomerantz and @glxp for lots more news.
Explore the moon in Google Earth - The Official Google Blog (posted by Anousheh Ansari)
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Prize Roundup - July 9, 2009: FunDay, DOE, Singularity U, Zero-G, Google Earth, Diamandis Scholarship
Blogging strategies for non-profits in Boston - Boston Nonprofit Business Examiner (Jean Levasseur) - Friday Funday at The Launch Pad is used as an example of how to engage your audience and get them coming back regularly for more.@PeterDiamandis - Tonight Singuarllity U is having an awesome panel on "Humanity's Grandest Challenges" at NASA Ames. 2 Noble Laureate & Larry Brilliant speak
The Students of ISU & SU (@singularityu) have secured a Zero-G flight for this Saturday. 4 seats remaining!! Anyone else want to go?
Great meetings with our friends at DOE about Progressive Auto X PRIZE -- Met with Cathy Zoi, John Lushetsky and John Shore. Great progress!!
Up at 5am (ouch), just landed in DC. Off to meet with friend Billy Tauzin (PhRMA) then on to DOE. Great summer day in nation's capital.
great X PRIZE dinner hosted by legend Bob Metcalfe @ his beautiful backbay home. goal to support XPLab@MIT. THX Bob!
@jeff_foust - Got an invite overnight from Google for "a very special announcement about the newest addition to Google Earth" on July 20 in DC.
Speakers include Buzz Aldrin, Anousheh Ansari, Andrew Chaikin, and "senior" NA
SA officials. That, plus the date, suggest it's Moon-related.The obvious prize connection here is in the speaker list. Here's a Google Moon twitter account and its Bio (on the twitter list):
GoogleMoon - Something truly out of this world is coming, you WILL want to follow us...Promise. Clue - Facebook, Twitter & The Moon
The Google Earth Blog has a post on this: Google Earth Event on July 20th in DC - Expect the Moon
Here's more from the Google Earth Blog:
The picture for this post, which you can take as one loaded with religious symbolism, space symbolism, or simply as a starkly beautiful picture, is one of the winners from this contest (from the above link):
Panoramio April Photo Contest Winners - Check out the winners of the April photo contest from Panoramio. The winners get prizes of photo geotagging tools from the sponsor ATP.
@nickyjor - RT @SGAC: Apply today for the Peter Diamandis Scholarship to win a trip to South Korea for SGC'09 http://is.gd/1suRl
This one isn't about a prize or award, but it's an interesting question from Leroy Chiao:
@AstroDude - Can/Should we shrink Orion to crew of 4, 4m base?
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Prize Roundup - July 7-8, 2009:LRO Video, McKinsey, Explorers Journal, Singularity U
This week marks the launch of a new University... - The neXt Prize - Peter Diamandis introduces Singularity University.
Audio interview with Peter Diamandis - McKinsey & Company (What Matters site)
Prizes: a winning strategy for innovation - McKinsey & Company
@Regolith_Chal - Who WOULDN'T want to dig a big hole on the Moon? It's like a giant sandbox waiting for castles. http://bit.ly/2I26jG
The link is to a YouTube video of the "Flyover of the First Images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera".
Google Lunar X PRIZE Featured in Explorers Journal - The Launch Pad - The X PRIZE folks have a sneak preview linked.
The ... is connected to the ... - Unreasonable Rocket
Audio interview with Peter Diamandis - McKinsey & Company (What Matters site)
Prizes: a winning strategy for innovation - McKinsey & Company
@Regolith_Chal - Who WOULDN'T want to dig a big hole on the Moon? It's like a giant sandbox waiting for castles. http://bit.ly/2I26jG
The link is to a YouTube video of the "Flyover of the First Images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera".
Google Lunar X PRIZE Featured in Explorers Journal - The Launch Pad - The X PRIZE folks have a sneak preview linked.
The ... is connected to the ... - Unreasonable Rocket
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Prize Roundup - June 24-25, 2009
@Regolith_Chal - NASA press release on new agreement with NASA Ames: http://bit.ly/167vhY
From the Ames Research Center press release:
NASA today announced that it has signed an agreement with the California Space Authority, Inc., (CSA) to collaborate on participatory science and public outreach using a simulated lunar surface environment.
Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, CSA will establish an office at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., in NASA Research Park. This fall, NASA Ames and CSA, along with its sister organization, the California Space Education and Workforce Institute, will host the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a prize competition focused on developing improved lunar regolith handling technologies.
So long, and thanks for all the Moonpies - The Launch Pad - Mike Fabio is leaving the X PRIZE Foundation.
Announcing the 19th Team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE: Part-Time-Scientists - The Launch Pad
Links: Muggers Caught, Tehran Imagery, Ocean Celebration, UNHCR Donation - Google Earth Blog - The prize part of this is in the Ocean Celebration section, which includes awards won by the "Ocean in Google Earth" team:
Bring Back the Beach benefit dinner - Heal the Bay
Ocean Conservation Awards Gala - Aquarium of the Pacific
NAs Live TV - Nebula Aerospace
@fineri - http://twitpic.com/89sgp - Initial sounding rocket layout,looked alot smaller on Rocksim compared to this view on solidworks!
@odysseymoon - Michael Doornbos interviewed Bob Richards about Odyssey Moon yesterday for his Evadot podcast series: http://bit.ly/3nXtH
@OmegaEnvoy - Check out the latest press release and movie by 4Frontiers Corp. on our Expedition Arctic: http://bit.ly/2Djrof http://bit.ly/6LsaU .
@http://twitter.com/jeff_foust - RT @marckboucher: Updates for NASA Power Beaming Challenge available at http://www.spaceelevator.com [delayed to late July/early August]
Note: The recent plan was for the games to start on July 14. From spaceelevator.com:
The Space Elevator games have been delayed until at least the last week of July or first week of August. The games could be further delayed as technical and safety issues are being worked out in dry runs. Stay tuned.
IIIT-H launches into the future, practically - LiveMint - The “scientists” are students of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, or IIIT-H. And they are working on a trial launch of Mission Gaganyaan, which in 2009 became the first and only Indian entry to CanSat ...
KCC's places fifth in national competition - Kapi'o - Students on the KCC CanSat team competed with 24 other teams at the annual CanSat Competition in Amarillo, Texas from June 10 to 14. ... KCC was the only community college team to launch its satellite.
id Software, home of rocketeer John Carmack, is acquired - RLV News
Funding for Centennial Challenges threatened - RLV News
Senate doesn’t follow House lead on exploration cuts - Space Politics - Also unclear is the fate of some smaller programs, like Centennial Challenges and related innovation efforts that are feared to be on the chopping block despite their small ($20 million) price tag.
Note that the Centennial Challenges part of that set of programs is even smaller - $4 million - in the Administration's budget proposal. The whole set is probably one of the most productive parts of NASA, in my opinion - and the whole bunch is only about 1/10 of 1% of the NASA budget.
Here are some upcoming robot contests:
2nd International Autonomous Robotics Competiton - June 27 - 28, 2009, San Diego County Fairgrounds - A video explains how the competition is set up. Roomba's seem to be popular platforms for the "maze" and "desert" contests. I'm not sure I followed how to use NetBeans and a Java API to program the robot, though.
8th Annual MATE International ROV Competition - "The Next Generation of Submarine Rescue Systems - Massachusetts Maritime Academy -Buzzards Bay, MA - June 24-26, 2009
2009 Global Conference on Educational Robotics™ - Leesburg, VA - July 1st to July 5th - This includes conference sessions, the International Botball Tournament, and the Beyond Botball Tournament (Botball for college students and adults).
UK Micromouse 2009 - ThinkTank, Birmingham - Saturday, June 27
RoboCup 2009 - Stadthalle Graz, Austria - June 29 - July 5 - After Atlanta, USA and Suzhou, China RoboCup will be back in Europe in 2009. RoboCup, the largest and most important event for intelligent and autonomous robots, will take place 2009 in Austria for the first time. Since 1997 RoboCup has been the frontier of research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Pushing forward the boundaries of what robots are able to do is a major driving force of RoboCup.
From the Ames Research Center press release:
NASA today announced that it has signed an agreement with the California Space Authority, Inc., (CSA) to collaborate on participatory science and public outreach using a simulated lunar surface environment.
Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, CSA will establish an office at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., in NASA Research Park. This fall, NASA Ames and CSA, along with its sister organization, the California Space Education and Workforce Institute, will host the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a prize competition focused on developing improved lunar regolith handling technologies.
So long, and thanks for all the Moonpies - The Launch Pad - Mike Fabio is leaving the X PRIZE Foundation.
Announcing the 19th Team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE: Part-Time-Scientists - The Launch Pad
Links: Muggers Caught, Tehran Imagery, Ocean Celebration, UNHCR Donation - Google Earth Blog - The prize part of this is in the Ocean Celebration section, which includes awards won by the "Ocean in Google Earth" team:
Bring Back the Beach benefit dinner - Heal the Bay
Ocean Conservation Awards Gala - Aquarium of the Pacific
NAs Live TV - Nebula Aerospace
@fineri - http://twitpic.com/89sgp - Initial sounding rocket layout,looked alot smaller on Rocksim compared to this view on solidworks!
@odysseymoon - Michael Doornbos interviewed Bob Richards about Odyssey Moon yesterday for his Evadot podcast series: http://bit.ly/3nXtH
@OmegaEnvoy - Check out the latest press release and movie by 4Frontiers Corp. on our Expedition Arctic: http://bit.ly/2Djrof http://bit.ly/6LsaU .
@http://twitter.com/jeff_foust - RT @marckboucher: Updates for NASA Power Beaming Challenge available at http://www.spaceelevator.com [delayed to late July/early August]
Note: The recent plan was for the games to start on July 14. From spaceelevator.com:
The Space Elevator games have been delayed until at least the last week of July or first week of August. The games could be further delayed as technical and safety issues are being worked out in dry runs. Stay tuned.
IIIT-H launches into the future, practically - LiveMint - The “scientists” are students of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, or IIIT-H. And they are working on a trial launch of Mission Gaganyaan, which in 2009 became the first and only Indian entry to CanSat ...
KCC's places fifth in national competition - Kapi'o - Students on the KCC CanSat team competed with 24 other teams at the annual CanSat Competition in Amarillo, Texas from June 10 to 14. ... KCC was the only community college team to launch its satellite.
id Software, home of rocketeer John Carmack, is acquired - RLV News
Funding for Centennial Challenges threatened - RLV News
Senate doesn’t follow House lead on exploration cuts - Space Politics - Also unclear is the fate of some smaller programs, like Centennial Challenges and related innovation efforts that are feared to be on the chopping block despite their small ($20 million) price tag.
Note that the Centennial Challenges part of that set of programs is even smaller - $4 million - in the Administration's budget proposal. The whole set is probably one of the most productive parts of NASA, in my opinion - and the whole bunch is only about 1/10 of 1% of the NASA budget.
Here are some upcoming robot contests:
2nd International Autonomous Robotics Competiton - June 27 - 28, 2009, San Diego County Fairgrounds - A video explains how the competition is set up. Roomba's seem to be popular platforms for the "maze" and "desert" contests. I'm not sure I followed how to use NetBeans and a Java API to program the robot, though.
8th Annual MATE International ROV Competition - "The Next Generation of Submarine Rescue Systems - Massachusetts Maritime Academy -Buzzards Bay, MA - June 24-26, 2009
2009 Global Conference on Educational Robotics™ - Leesburg, VA - July 1st to July 5th - This includes conference sessions, the International Botball Tournament, and the Beyond Botball Tournament (Botball for college students and adults).
UK Micromouse 2009 - ThinkTank, Birmingham - Saturday, June 27
RoboCup 2009 - Stadthalle Graz, Austria - June 29 - July 5 - After Atlanta, USA and Suzhou, China RoboCup will be back in Europe in 2009. RoboCup, the largest and most important event for intelligent and autonomous robots, will take place 2009 in Austria for the first time. Since 1997 RoboCup has been the frontier of research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Pushing forward the boundaries of what robots are able to do is a major driving force of RoboCup.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Space Prize Roundup - June 21-22, 2009
I haven't seen any details about the actual event, but here's a list of the 2009 CanSat Winners.
France Joins International Youth Rocketry Challenge - Press release at SpaceRef.com - GIFAS, the French aerospace industry association and Planete Sciences announced today that France will field a rocketry competition this fall and will compete against the UK and U.S. teams next year at the Farnborough International Air Show. France also plans to host the international fly-off outside of Le Bourget in June 2011.
X Prize Foundation plans India lab; in talks with Tata group - LiveMint.com - X Prize Foundation, an organization that has popularized private spaceflight with its international competitions, will open a lab in India in a year, its first outside the US.
The Tata group is assisting the foundatin in identifying a university in India to host the lab, said X Prize Foundation chairman and chief executive officer Peter H. Diamandis. ...
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, is on the board of X Prize. The foundation currently has one lab at the Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in the US. ...
Here's more on this and other topics from @PeterDiamandis (the most recent tweats are on top, so read in that order):
On Nano technology, genomics, space, asteroid mining... Mr. Tata runs a visionary and innovation driven company. Wonderful people.
Just finished dinner with Ratan Tata (Chairman) and the Managing Directors of a dozen Tata Companies. Awesome, visionary conversations
meeting with Pradeep Mohandas founder of SEDS India... 6 chapters and 1200 students!
alot of enthusiasm for starting an X PRIZE Lab here in India to address rural and developing world needs.
just met with the President of IIT-Bombay... the MIT of India.
Briefs: Unreasonable update; Elon Musk's talk to HSF panel - RLV News
Statement of Administration Policy H.R. 2847 -- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (NASA Excerpt) - SpaceRef:
... The Administration is concerned with the elimination of $21 million from the request for NASA innovation, which uses public-private partnerships to advance important technologies and enable access to new sources of innovation through incentive prizes and partnerships. ...
I'd guess that this is related to the cuts mentionedin this comment from "Jim" (if I can guess twice in 1 sentence: Jim Muncy?) here: House Budget
Testing results summary from the KC Space Pirates - Space Elevator Blog
A New Dawn for Commercial Spaceflight - The Launch Pad
@Pomerantz - I'm pretty excited that Wikipedia's Pic of the Day yesterday was Armadillo's Pixel (just before the 2006 #NGLLC)! http://tr.im/pcqT
France Joins International Youth Rocketry Challenge - Press release at SpaceRef.com - GIFAS, the French aerospace industry association and Planete Sciences announced today that France will field a rocketry competition this fall and will compete against the UK and U.S. teams next year at the Farnborough International Air Show. France also plans to host the international fly-off outside of Le Bourget in June 2011.
X Prize Foundation plans India lab; in talks with Tata group - LiveMint.com - X Prize Foundation, an organization that has popularized private spaceflight with its international competitions, will open a lab in India in a year, its first outside the US.
The Tata group is assisting the foundatin in identifying a university in India to host the lab, said X Prize Foundation chairman and chief executive officer Peter H. Diamandis. ...
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, is on the board of X Prize. The foundation currently has one lab at the Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in the US. ...
Here's more on this and other topics from @PeterDiamandis (the most recent tweats are on top, so read in that order):
On Nano technology, genomics, space, asteroid mining... Mr. Tata runs a visionary and innovation driven company. Wonderful people.
Just finished dinner with Ratan Tata (Chairman) and the Managing Directors of a dozen Tata Companies. Awesome, visionary conversations
meeting with Pradeep Mohandas founder of SEDS India... 6 chapters and 1200 students!
alot of enthusiasm for starting an X PRIZE Lab here in India to address rural and developing world needs.
just met with the President of IIT-Bombay... the MIT of India.
Briefs: Unreasonable update; Elon Musk's talk to HSF panel - RLV News
Statement of Administration Policy H.R. 2847 -- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (NASA Excerpt) - SpaceRef:
... The Administration is concerned with the elimination of $21 million from the request for NASA innovation, which uses public-private partnerships to advance important technologies and enable access to new sources of innovation through incentive prizes and partnerships. ...
I'd guess that this is related to the cuts mentionedin this comment from "Jim" (if I can guess twice in 1 sentence: Jim Muncy?) here: House Budget
Testing results summary from the KC Space Pirates - Space Elevator Blog
A New Dawn for Commercial Spaceflight - The Launch Pad
@Pomerantz - I'm pretty excited that Wikipedia's Pic of the Day yesterday was Armadillo's Pixel (just before the 2006 #NGLLC)! http://tr.im/pcqT
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Non-Space Prize Roundup - June 13, 2009
February 2009 - Geotagged Photo Contest Winners - Panoramio - The image on the right is one of the honorable mentions. As usual, I pick one that makes me think of space for some reason - in this case because it seems like a satellite image. Also as usual, you'll want to check out the full set in full resolution and within the geospatial applications. Note: Because the winners are announced in a later month, I'm almost caught up! These were posted on May 7.X PRIZE Cars blog is back:
Automotive X Prize News: May 27th, 2009
Automotive X Prize News: June 5th, 2009
From MIT News:
'Bother bots' win the day - Annual 2.007 robot competition features good defense
Husk Insulation wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize - Team from University of Michigan focused on advanced bio-based insulation
Ksplice software update project wins $100K competition - Global Cycle bike adapter is audience pick
Top honors this year in the 20th annual MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition went to Ksplice, a system that promises to end the annoyance and delays of having to reboot a computer every time a new update is installed. ...
Global Bicycle Solutions, winner of the audience choice award, has developed a simple system that can be attached to an ordinary bicycle to enable its pedal power to be used for other functions, such as removing kernels from corn, grinding grain or charging cell phones.
MassChallenge ~ Commonwealth Venture Funds! - Maximizing Progress
MassChallenge -
We propose using a combination of public and private funds to catalyze growth and jobs by launching a $25M dollar Venture Funds Competition in Massachusetts across 6 tracks:
- Healthcare, and Life Sciences
- IT, Software, and Gaming
- Clean Technology and Energy
- Social Development and Non-profit
- Open Category, Seed Stage
- Open Category, Expansion Stage
A Venture Funds Competition combines the collaborative, educational and catalytic impact of a business plan competition with the business and job creation of a seed fund.
Gleanings from X Prize/I2I - MIT Ideas Global Challenge
From Prize4Life:
Prize4Life and the Alzheimer Research Forum Announce Launch of New Web-Portal for ALS Research - Prize4Life and the Alzheimer Research Forum announce the release of the ALS Forum (www.ResearchALS.org) ...
$1M Biomarker Prize Challenge re-posted on InnoCentive - Prize4Life's $1 million ALS Biomarker Prize has re-opened. The goal of this prize competition is to discover a biomarker of ALS disease progression that can reduce the time and cost of clinical trials.
Recall that Prize4Life recently awarded 2 prizes for progress towards the Biomarker goal. Now the prize has a rolling deadline (first-to-win).
Prize4Life News Digest - 6/10
Prize4Life News Digest - 6/3
Prize4Life News Digest - 5/28
Prize4Life News Digest
From the X PRIZE Foundation News Scroller:
Gene sequencing will cost $1,000 in about 2 years, scientists predict - Boston Herald.com
Don't Let Innovation Go Over Your Head - 1to1 media
incentive2innovate - Peter Diamandis and Matt Bross - Business Strategy Innovation
Monday, June 08, 2009
Prize Roundup - June 8, 2009
The incentive2innovate (i2i) conference is underway.
From the i2i blog:
incentive2innovate Day 1 Photo Slideshow
Some reactions from the crowd: Edmond Bina
Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital
Some Photos from Day 1, early
Greeting from Robert K. Weiss
Welcome to incentive2innovate
Also check here for updates: @i_2_i twitter and @PeterDiamandis twitter.
@Doug_Comstock from NASA Innovative Partnerships Program (home of the Centennial Challenge prizes) is at i2i.
Speed Up static fire test - RLV News
Liability problems stop up hydrogen peroxide supplies - RLV News on an Unreasonable Rocket post
Review: The New Moon Race - The Space Review - Jeff Foust
3D Lander CAD Model - Next Giant Leap at Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams page - In addition to the CAD model which will draw your eyes first, note:
Next Giant Leap will be unveiling a full size mockup of our lander next week during the "Giant Leaps" symposium at MIT.
Giant Leaps - MIT
SYNERGY MOON Robotics Group - SYNERGY MOON at Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams page
Prep Rocket Designers Get Boost from Mentor - The Official Homepage of the United States Army
From the i2i blog:
incentive2innovate Day 1 Photo Slideshow
Some reactions from the crowd: Edmond Bina
Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital
Some Photos from Day 1, early
Greeting from Robert K. Weiss
Welcome to incentive2innovate
Also check here for updates: @i_2_i twitter and @PeterDiamandis twitter.
@Doug_Comstock from NASA Innovative Partnerships Program (home of the Centennial Challenge prizes) is at i2i.
Speed Up static fire test - RLV News
Liability problems stop up hydrogen peroxide supplies - RLV News on an Unreasonable Rocket post
Review: The New Moon Race - The Space Review - Jeff Foust
3D Lander CAD Model - Next Giant Leap at Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams page - In addition to the CAD model which will draw your eyes first, note:
Next Giant Leap will be unveiling a full size mockup of our lander next week during the "Giant Leaps" symposium at MIT.
Giant Leaps - MIT
SYNERGY MOON Robotics Group - SYNERGY MOON at Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams page
Prep Rocket Designers Get Boost from Mentor - The Official Homepage of the United States Army
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