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 model rockets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model rockets. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge Results
Here's more on the 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge that was just held:
Madison students take first place in Team America Rocketry Challenge - Aerospace Industries Association
TARC 2012 - Team America Rocketry Challenge - photo collection presented in a YouTube video
Team America Rocketry Challenge - A Country Mouse in Space, A rural teacher's experiences elsewhere
Ingraham rocketry team lands trip to NASA event - The Seattle Times on a team that will now go to the Student Launch Initiative
World's Largest Rocket Contest Launches STEM Careers - Marion C. Blakey (AIA) at the Huffington Post
TARC 2012 Timelapse Outfield - YouTube video - You should also be able to find several other time-lapse videos there if you go to this one.
Madison students take first place in Team America Rocketry Challenge - Aerospace Industries Association
TARC 2012 - Team America Rocketry Challenge - photo collection presented in a YouTube video
Team America Rocketry Challenge - A Country Mouse in Space, A rural teacher's experiences elsewhere
Ingraham rocketry team lands trip to NASA event - The Seattle Times on a team that will now go to the Student Launch Initiative
World's Largest Rocket Contest Launches STEM Careers - Marion C. Blakey (AIA) at the Huffington Post
TARC 2012 Timelapse Outfield - YouTube video - You should also be able to find several other time-lapse videos there if you go to this one.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Prize Roundup - June 26-27 - MoonROx and Sandbox, Nanotech, EurekaFest, Astronaut Glove, Space Map, Pirate Show, Green Racing for Green $, Lego Team
This post features the June picture (and Orbital category winner) from the 2009 Space Settlement Calendar resulting from the 2009 National Space Society calendar contest.In my previous post, I gave a quick link to the announcement, but here's more on what's happening with NASA Ames and the Regolith Excavation Challenge, and what the implications are: Best. Sandbox. Ever. - The Launch Pad
From the Foresight Institute:
2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theoretical and Experimental Molecular Nanotechnology - Submissions/nominations are due June 30, 2009
2009 Foresight Institute Prize in Communication - Submissions/nominations are due June 30, 2009
Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award - Submissions/nominations are due August 22, 2009
In other nanotechnology prize news:
WORLD-RENOWNED NANOTECHNOLOGY EXPERT PROVES THERE IS BIG POTENTIAL IN THE SMALLEST OF MATTER - Lemelson-MIT Program - Professor Chad Mirkin Awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Revolutionary Advancements in Nanotechnology - (link from Cosmic Log):
A prolific inventor and entrepreneur, his innovations have the potential to transform the future of medical diagnostics and patient point-of-care and to ignite change across many industries from semi-conductors to healthcare. ... Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University (NU), will accept the prize and present his accomplishments to the public at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the Lemelson-MIT Program’s third-annual EurekaFest, a multi-day celebration of the inventive spirit, June 25-27.
EurekaFest has a lot of other activities, too. Here are some more pointers:
2009 winner of the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
2009 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Joel Selanikio ~ Lemelson-MIT Sustainability Hero - Maximizing Progress
Here's something from the MoonROx Challenge Team Agreement:
The CHALLENGE, and the opportunity to win the prize purse, expires on June 1, 2009. ...
CHALLENGE will be conducted through June 1, 2009, unless extended at CSEWI's discretion.
So, what happens next? Is it extended, are the rules changed, does the money go to another prize, or does the Treasury keep it? I don't know.
Celebration for "Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest" winners - Space for All
KC Space Pirates to appear on the Science Channel - Space Elevator Blog
Testing Results - Space Elevator Blog - This gives pointers to some of the recent posts on the Space Elevator Games site.
This may or not be news, but it's the first I noticed it. The Centennial Challenges site shows where the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge will be held: November 2009 → MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA → 2009 Purse $400K
Friday Funday Space Map Wrapup - The Launch Pad - The map shows where a lot of space activity is, including prize teams and organizations, Launch Pad followers, and others.
Racing Goes Green - Cosmic Log
On the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE: Fox said the detailed rules and schedules for the competition ahead - including on-the-road semifinals and finals - should be announced sometime in the next few weeks
Here's one of the links from the Cosmic Log article: MICHELIN EMBRACES GREEN RACING WITH MICHELIN® GREEN X® CHALLENGE
@teamfrednet - You can read more about our #GLXP Lego Mindstorm project at http://bit.ly/13L9XI
Exploring journalism's future - MIT News - In order to encourage interaction and collaboration among the conference participants, the Knight News Challenge sponsors announced early on that they would offer additional grants of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 to the top three proposals submitted by attendees, involving collaborations between groups that have not previously worked together.
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
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Student Space Prize Roundup - May 17, 2009
Briefs: Exp. Sounding Rocket Assoc.; Team America Rocketry Challenge - RLV News covers an organization that, among other things, runs the 4th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition. SpaceX is a "major sponsor" of this competition, which is scheduled for June 25-26.The post also covers the results from the 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge. As noted, the winner of the post-TARC fly-off was a UK team from Royal Liberty School (the winners of UKAYRoC). Here's more about the TARC itself:
Wisconsin student 'rocketeers' win national contest - Madison West High School will represent U.S. in international fly-off today - Rocketry Planet (AIA press release)
For a brief bit of local flavor: Madison West students win national rocket competition - Wisconsin State Journal
top 20 teams (PDF) - Team America Rocketry Challenge
Team America Rocketry Challenge 2009 - Rocket Jones gives some background on the competition as well as an insider's view of the event.
Originally, the plan was for the winning entries for the 2009 Thacher Scholar Awards for secondary school students (grades 9-12) demonstrating the best use of geospatial technologies or data to study Earth to have been awarded by now. However,
Because of the high quality of the entries received for this year's contest, judging and selecting the winners is taking longer than planned. Winning entries will be posted by May 18.
As I'm posting, that's tomorrow. Here's the scope of the contest:
Because of the high quality of the entries received for this year's contest, judging and selecting the winners is taking longer than planned. Winning entries will be posted by May 18.
As I'm posting, that's tomorrow. Here's the scope of the contest:
Eligible geospatial tools and data include satellite remote sensing, aerial photography, geographic information systems (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS).
Does anyone want to include imagery from suborbital rockets in that set?
A while ago I briefly mentioned the winners of the 2009 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest. Here's a post from the National Space Society blog with more information about the other winning entry: Prize-Winning Space Settlement Design
Another Construction Update... - MAVRIC (Mars Analog Vehicle for Robotic Inspection and Construction) - Mars Society University Rover Challenge team
Iowa State’s 2009 Mars rover is ready to roll - Iowa State University College of Engineering
OSURC Mars Rover - URC team from Oregon State University:
Does anyone want to include imagery from suborbital rockets in that set?
A while ago I briefly mentioned the winners of the 2009 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest. Here's a post from the National Space Society blog with more information about the other winning entry: Prize-Winning Space Settlement Design
Another Construction Update... - MAVRIC (Mars Analog Vehicle for Robotic Inspection and Construction) - Mars Society University Rover Challenge team
Iowa State’s 2009 Mars rover is ready to roll - Iowa State University College of Engineering
OSURC Mars Rover - URC team from Oregon State University:
Announcement May 15 2009
Successfully tested remote operation in a large gravel parking lot. It was difficult to keep up with the rover, we will not have any speed problems in utah, this thing hauls!
No Boundaries (NASA/USA contest):
Successfully tested remote operation in a large gravel parking lot. It was difficult to keep up with the rover, we will not have any speed problems in utah, this thing hauls!
No Boundaries (NASA/USA contest):
All mail entries must be postmarked by May 15, 2009, 11:59 p.m. and received no later than May 20, 2009.
A list of No Boundaries winners is expected June 6, 2009.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Prize Roundup - May 16, 2009
NASA Names High School Winners in Supersonic Research Contest - SpaceRef (Langley Research Center press release)100 Teams of Student 'Rocketeers' Head to Washington, D.C. Area - SpaceRef (Aerospace Industries Association press release)
2009 AAPT Lesson Plan Competition Winners! - Team America Rocketry Challenge blog
Arielwaldman: Watching Team FREDNET's (a project on @spacehack) picorover prototype in action. Pretty cool!
Bob_Richards: Chilling at hacienda Diamandis - heading out to see Star Trek!
Always cool to be at @glxp ground zero. I'm going to try to hijack Peter's scooter.
Engaging @SpaceShow interview with Alan Stern (Odyssey Moon Science Mission Director & former NASA AA)
airshipventures: Creating the New Look: Here is a timelapse which shows the application of the new decal to the airship. Over 700.. http://tinyurl.com/quljo8
Check the Up Ship! blog for lots of pictures of the decal process and more airship photos.
One giant icon: Flying a piece of aviation history - Airship Z-Prize
Announcing the Newst X PRIZE: Space Tool Detection and Removal - The Launch Pad - Although this is for Friday Funday, I actually think a prize for detection of space objects (mainly large objects whose orbital parameters indicate a collision with the Earth) makes a lot of sense. There are some, uh, interesting prize ideas in the comments.
glxp: RT @milesobrien: Driving Chicago-Oshkosh for Lindbergh Foundation Bd. Mtg and award dinner http://lindberghfoundation.org/
The 2009 Lindbergh Award Celebration - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh ... Join us in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as we honor Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute and Terry and Mary Kohler, owners of Windway Capital Corp., with 2009 Lindbergh Awards.
Competition and Technological Advancement - SpaceTalk Now
Friday, May 15, 2009
ISDC 2009 Prizes, Contests, and Awards - Update
I'm going to update my earlier post on ISDC 2009 Prizes, Contests, and Awards. A lot more details have been added to the publicly available schedule since then. Here's the update. This only covers "Prizes, Contests, and Awards", or speakers that have contributed a lot to such activities; there's a lot of other interesting-sounding material, too:
The National Space Society's 28th 28th International Space Development Conference features a number of prizes and awards. From the Education page:
Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest
In this annual national contest, each of the competitors will build and launch an Estes solid-fuel powered rocket. The goal is to have the closest landing to a downrange target. Open to ages 10 and up. Prizes for top winners.
Click for more information.
Lunar Lander Eggs Prize Competition
High school teams of up to 5 students are invited to participate in this one-day special event on Saturday, May 30 at ISDC. The LLEP is hosted by Omega Envoy, the only Florida-based team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Prizes include VIP passes to an upcoming Space Shuttle launch or tickets to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Details are online at http://omegaenvoy.org/media/
Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
This new entrepreneurial competition has student teams develop a concept centered around one of the following: lunar exploration; personal spaceflight; or renewable energy. Team finalists have the opportunity to present their product concepts at ISDC 2009.
Click for more on the Conrad Awards
NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest
This annual contest, co-sponsored by NASA Ames and the National Space Society (NSS), is for 6-12th graders (11-18 years old) from anywhere in the world. All contest participants are invited to attend ISDC 2009 to present their entries and participate in special activities.
Click for more on the Space Settlement Contest
In addition, the program (PDF) includes the following events for awards, contests, and space prizes, or featuring people involved with prizes. (Note: TEMPO3 isn't a prize or contest, but it won one).
Thursday, May 28
5:00 PM Commercial Space Panel - Ken Davidian, Carissa Christensen, Lon Levin
7:00 PM Richard Garriott Private Space Explorer Pioneer Award Presentation
Friday, May 29
12:00 PM Janet Petro - Deputy Director, NASA Kennedy Space Center - Pioneer Award Presentation
7:00 PM Gala Dinner - Speakers and Guests To Be Announced - Pioneer Award Presentation
Saturday, May 30
12:00 PM Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut - Pioneer & Student Awards Presentations
2:00 PM Hands-on Education Roundtable - Matt Everingham, California Space Authority
3:00 PM Student Space Settlement Design Contest - Lynne Zielinski, NSS & Student Teams
The National Space Society's 28th 28th International Space Development Conference features a number of prizes and awards. From the Education page:
Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest
In this annual national contest, each of the competitors will build and launch an Estes solid-fuel powered rocket. The goal is to have the closest landing to a downrange target. Open to ages 10 and up. Prizes for top winners.
Click for more information.
Lunar Lander Eggs Prize Competition
High school teams of up to 5 students are invited to participate in this one-day special event on Saturday, May 30 at ISDC. The LLEP is hosted by Omega Envoy, the only Florida-based team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Prizes include VIP passes to an upcoming Space Shuttle launch or tickets to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Details are online at http://omegaenvoy.org/media/
Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
This new entrepreneurial competition has student teams develop a concept centered around one of the following: lunar exploration; personal spaceflight; or renewable energy. Team finalists have the opportunity to present their product concepts at ISDC 2009.
Click for more on the Conrad Awards
NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest
This annual contest, co-sponsored by NASA Ames and the National Space Society (NSS), is for 6-12th graders (11-18 years old) from anywhere in the world. All contest participants are invited to attend ISDC 2009 to present their entries and participate in special activities.
Click for more on the Space Settlement Contest
In addition, the program (PDF) includes the following events for awards, contests, and space prizes, or featuring people involved with prizes. (Note: TEMPO3 isn't a prize or contest, but it won one).
Thursday, May 28
12:00 PM Elon Musk, Co-founder, PayPal and SpaceX - Von Braun Award Presentation
2:30 PM MoonROx Challenge: Lessons Learned - Dr. Peter Schubert & Jonathan Card, Packer Engineering
3:00 PM Google Lunar X Prize / NG Lunar Lander - Will Pomerantz, Michael Mealling, Bob Richards, Jason Dunn5:00 PM Commercial Space Panel - Ken Davidian, Carissa Christensen, Lon Levin
7:00 PM Richard Garriott Private Space Explorer Pioneer Award Presentation
Friday, May 29
12:00 PM Janet Petro - Deputy Director, NASA Kennedy Space Center - Pioneer Award Presentation
4:00 PM Space Media 2.0 - William Pomerantz, X PRIZE Foundation; Robert Pearlman, collectSPACE; Jeff Foust, The Space Review; Michael Mealling, Masten Space Systems; Benjamin & Cariann Higginbotham, Spacevidcast.com
5:00 PM SSP Panel - W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies; Ben Shelef, Spaceward Foundation; Jim Plaxco, Artsnova
5:00 PM NASA Competition and Lunar Analog ResearchDan Hawk, College of Menominee Nation Undergraduate Engineering Team7:00 PM Gala Dinner - Speakers and Guests To Be Announced - Pioneer Award Presentation
Saturday, May 30
12:00 PM Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut - Pioneer & Student Awards Presentations
2:00 PM Hands-on Education Roundtable - Matt Everingham, California Space Authority
3:00 PM Student Space Settlement Design Contest - Lynne Zielinski, NSS & Student Teams
4:00 PM Tethered Experiment for Mars interPlanetary Operations Cubed (TEMPO3)Chris Carberry, The Mars Society
7:00 PM Speaker To Be Announced - NSS and O'Neill Awards Presentations
Monday, May 11, 2009
Team America Rocketry Challenge This Weekend
The 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge is approaching:TARC National Finals Slated for Saturday, May 16th at Great Meadow in The Plains, VAThe 7th Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals will take place on Saturday, May 16th (rain date Sunday, May 17th) from 8:30am - 6pm at Great Meadow in The Plains, VA. For more information on the venue, please visit http://www.greatmeadow.org/.
Local group having a blast with project - Newark Advocate.com
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Prize Roundup - May 2, 2009
Pete Worden twitters about the CAFE Green Aviation Prize and a related workshop held at NASA Ames:
Busy Sunday (typical NASA Ames workday) 2nd day Green aviation workshop plus planning mtg for cool lo-cost planetary mission
Note NASA- CAFE green aviation prize unveiled yesterday in SF Bay area. Can electric aircraft re-vitalize Geberal Aviation - I think yes
Cool idea from green aviation workshop from 1940 - sailing airships using undersea hydroplane tethered to airship for tacking - neat!
At Green Aviation weekend workshop at NASA Ames. Very hard goal to reduce carbon in aviation. Major new job for NASA!
Here are other recent comments I found to be of interest:
Last nights NASA Town Hall forum - interesting. Big argument about science mission costs. Small and cheap is my view. Others disagree :-(
Ps - Pharmasat is Ames second nanosat (8kg) built in concert with students at Santa Clara Univ. Low cost - $ few millions - not $ billions!
Unreasonable update - RLV News
Here's an update from the Regolith Excavation Challenge twitter:
Rules FAQ has been posted: http://regolith.csewi.org/faq
Anousheh Ansari Wins First Annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award - MarketWatch
Links: Ocean Now, Michigan Earth Day, Goldman Prize, Convention Center, Queen Mary - Google Earth Blog - Here's the part about the Goldman Prize:
Goldman Environmental Prize - Google has helped produce a multimedia GE 5 Tour which highlights the works of the winners of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize. One winner from each continent receives $150,000 each. The GE Tour is an excellent way to illustrate the location of the winners and the places they are working to help address environmental concerns. Check it out here directly in GE , or go to the Goldman Prize site to watch it in the GE plugin.
NASA Space Launch Initiative 2009 - RLV News
Busy Sunday (typical NASA Ames workday) 2nd day Green aviation workshop plus planning mtg for cool lo-cost planetary mission
Note NASA- CAFE green aviation prize unveiled yesterday in SF Bay area. Can electric aircraft re-vitalize Geberal Aviation - I think yes
Cool idea from green aviation workshop from 1940 - sailing airships using undersea hydroplane tethered to airship for tacking - neat!
At Green Aviation weekend workshop at NASA Ames. Very hard goal to reduce carbon in aviation. Major new job for NASA!
Here are other recent comments I found to be of interest:
Last nights NASA Town Hall forum - interesting. Big argument about science mission costs. Small and cheap is my view. Others disagree :-(
Ps - Pharmasat is Ames second nanosat (8kg) built in concert with students at Santa Clara Univ. Low cost - $ few millions - not $ billions!
Unreasonable update - RLV News
Here's an update from the Regolith Excavation Challenge twitter:
Rules FAQ has been posted: http://regolith.csewi.org/faq
Anousheh Ansari Wins First Annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award - MarketWatch
Links: Ocean Now, Michigan Earth Day, Goldman Prize, Convention Center, Queen Mary - Google Earth Blog - Here's the part about the Goldman Prize:
Goldman Environmental Prize - Google has helped produce a multimedia GE 5 Tour which highlights the works of the winners of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize. One winner from each continent receives $150,000 each. The GE Tour is an excellent way to illustrate the location of the winners and the places they are working to help address environmental concerns. Check it out here directly in GE , or go to the Goldman Prize site to watch it in the GE plugin.
NASA Space Launch Initiative 2009 - RLV News
Friday, May 01, 2009
ISDC 2009 Prizes, Contests, and Awards
The National Space Society's 28th 28th International Space Development Conference features a number of prizes and awards. From the Education page:
Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest
In this annual national contest, each of the competitors will build and launch an Estes solid-fuel powered rocket. The goal is to have the closest landing to a downrange target. Open to ages 10 and up. Prizes for top winners.
Click for more information.
Lunar Lander Eggs Prize Competition
High school teams of up to 5 students are invited to participate in this one-day special event on Saturday, May 30 at ISDC. The LLEP is hosted by Omega Envoy, the only Florida-based team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Prizes include VIP passes to an upcoming Space Shuttle launch or tickets to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Details are online at http://omegaenvoy.org/media/
Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
This new entrepreneurial competition has student teams develop a concept centered around one of the following: lunar exploration; personal spaceflight; or renewable energy. Team finalists have the opportunity to present their product concepts at ISDC 2009.
Click for more on the Conrad Awards
NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest
This annual contest, co-sponsored by NASA Ames and the National Space Society (NSS), is for 6-12th graders (11-18 years old) from anywhere in the world. All contest participants are invited to attend ISDC 2009 to present their entries and participate in special activities.
Click for more on the Space Settlement Contest
In addition, the program (PDF) includes the following:
Thursday, May 28
3:00 PM Google Lunar X Prize / NG Lunar Lander
12:00 PM Elon Musk CEO, SpaceX Heinlein Award Presentation
7:00 PM Richard Garriott Private Space Explorer Pioneer Award Presentation
Friday, May 29
12:00 PM Janet Petro - Deputy Director, NASA Kennedy Space Center - Pioneer Award Presentation
7:00 PM Gala Dinner - Speakers and Guests To Be Announced - Pioneer Award Presentation
Saturday, May 30
12:00 PM Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut - Pioneer & Student Awards Presentations
7:00 PM Speaker To Be Announced - NSS and O'Neill Awards Presentations
Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest
In this annual national contest, each of the competitors will build and launch an Estes solid-fuel powered rocket. The goal is to have the closest landing to a downrange target. Open to ages 10 and up. Prizes for top winners.
Click for more information.
Lunar Lander Eggs Prize Competition
High school teams of up to 5 students are invited to participate in this one-day special event on Saturday, May 30 at ISDC. The LLEP is hosted by Omega Envoy, the only Florida-based team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Prizes include VIP passes to an upcoming Space Shuttle launch or tickets to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Details are online at http://omegaenvoy.org/media/
Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
This new entrepreneurial competition has student teams develop a concept centered around one of the following: lunar exploration; personal spaceflight; or renewable energy. Team finalists have the opportunity to present their product concepts at ISDC 2009.
Click for more on the Conrad Awards
NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest
This annual contest, co-sponsored by NASA Ames and the National Space Society (NSS), is for 6-12th graders (11-18 years old) from anywhere in the world. All contest participants are invited to attend ISDC 2009 to present their entries and participate in special activities.
Click for more on the Space Settlement Contest
In addition, the program (PDF) includes the following:
Thursday, May 28
3:00 PM Google Lunar X Prize / NG Lunar Lander
12:00 PM Elon Musk CEO, SpaceX Heinlein Award Presentation
7:00 PM Richard Garriott Private Space Explorer Pioneer Award Presentation
Friday, May 29
12:00 PM Janet Petro - Deputy Director, NASA Kennedy Space Center - Pioneer Award Presentation
7:00 PM Gala Dinner - Speakers and Guests To Be Announced - Pioneer Award Presentation
Saturday, May 30
12:00 PM Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut - Pioneer & Student Awards Presentations
7:00 PM Speaker To Be Announced - NSS and O'Neill Awards Presentations
Prize Roundup - May 1, 2009
Responsive Space 7 was held April 27-30, including RS7 Student Scholarship. From the program:
A Novel Spacecraft Standard for a Modular Nonsatellite Bus in an Operationally Responsive
Space Environment (STUDENT AWARD) — David Voss, Boston University
Implementation Challenges and Strategies for Responsive Space Architectures (STUDENT
AWARD) — Zoe Szajnfarber, MIT
Two Wicomico High School Teams to Compete in Final Round of the Team America Rocketry Challenge - SBYNews
Prizes up and products down - Professional Fundraising
Briefs: N-Prize update; Universal Transport System contests - RLV News
The linked High Powered Rocketry blog gives an overview of the N-Prize and a hypothetical plan for winning the prize. It also notes that they're starting a new blog on the N-Prize, so we can expect to see more in the future on that prize there: N Prize Blog.
N-Prize team Aerosplice asks
Why is the Aerosplice approach better?
First Parts turned out good! - Prometheus (N-Prize team)
2009 Nebula Awards - Science Fiction Awards Watch - This is one of the big SF awards, given by members of the SF author community (specifically the SFWA) so there are a number of other posts about it at SFAW.
Briefs: Horizons mag; X-51 update; Astrobotic update - RLV News
Briefs: WK2 and media; Masten Space vids - RLV News
A Novel Spacecraft Standard for a Modular Nonsatellite Bus in an Operationally Responsive
Space Environment (STUDENT AWARD) — David Voss, Boston University
Implementation Challenges and Strategies for Responsive Space Architectures (STUDENT
AWARD) — Zoe Szajnfarber, MIT
Two Wicomico High School Teams to Compete in Final Round of the Team America Rocketry Challenge - SBYNews
Prizes up and products down - Professional Fundraising
Briefs: N-Prize update; Universal Transport System contests - RLV News
The linked High Powered Rocketry blog gives an overview of the N-Prize and a hypothetical plan for winning the prize. It also notes that they're starting a new blog on the N-Prize, so we can expect to see more in the future on that prize there: N Prize Blog.
N-Prize team Aerosplice asks
Why is the Aerosplice approach better?
First Parts turned out good! - Prometheus (N-Prize team)
2009 Nebula Awards - Science Fiction Awards Watch - This is one of the big SF awards, given by members of the SF author community (specifically the SFWA) so there are a number of other posts about it at SFAW.
Briefs: Horizons mag; X-51 update; Astrobotic update - RLV News
Briefs: WK2 and media; Masten Space vids - RLV News
Sunday, April 05, 2009
UK Space Conference 2009
On top of Space Access, the Moonbuggy Race, the Conrad Award Innovation Summit, and the Atlantic VEX Regional Robotics Championship, this weekend also includes the last day of the UKSC 2009 (UK Space Conference). Here are some of the events and discussions from that conference related to prizes, awards, and competitions:
UKAYRoC - Is a model Rocket competition the final of which will be held at Charterhouse on April 2nd. Those schools that have qualified for the final will fly their model rockets, which are designed to achieve a precise flight profile. The team that comes gets closest win a trip to the United States to take part in a American competition.
Richard Garriott on the Cassini Challenge - YouTube - Richard Garriot provides his thoughts on the Cassini Challenge. Students aged 11-18 can win the opportunity to control the Cassini Spacecraft and be scientists for the day.
Pomerantz twitter - Up and at 'em early: my video-conferenced talk to the UK Space Conference starts in about 20 minutes.
Once We Had A Rocket - A premiere viewing of the Once We Had A Rocket (2008) - a documentary account of Britain’s post war programme to build a rocket that would launch satellites into space. ... this documentary has distinction of being the winner of the Audience Poll at the Eighth Imperial War Museum Student Film Competition.
UKAYRoC - Is a model Rocket competition the final of which will be held at Charterhouse on April 2nd. Those schools that have qualified for the final will fly their model rockets, which are designed to achieve a precise flight profile. The team that comes gets closest win a trip to the United States to take part in a American competition.
Richard Garriott on the Cassini Challenge - YouTube - Richard Garriot provides his thoughts on the Cassini Challenge. Students aged 11-18 can win the opportunity to control the Cassini Spacecraft and be scientists for the day.
The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards - Recognising UK achievements in Space
Pomerantz twitter - Up and at 'em early: my video-conferenced talk to the UK Space Conference starts in about 20 minutes.
Once We Had A Rocket - A premiere viewing of the Once We Had A Rocket (2008) - a documentary account of Britain’s post war programme to build a rocket that would launch satellites into space. ... this documentary has distinction of being the winner of the Audience Poll at the Eighth Imperial War Museum Student Film Competition.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Monday, November 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Battle of the Rockets
The Praxis Inc Battle of the Rockets - The Spring competition is April 4, 2009 in Culpeper, Virginia. It includes high school and college events with altitude, Mars lander, and CanSat themes. The link is from the 2009 CanSat site.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Space Prize Roundup - November 9, 2008
The Phoenix - The Suburbanite (Akron, Ohio) - This features the Springfield High School TARC team.
CanSat Competition - TU Delft - This is another CanSat competition I don't think I've linked to before.
ESA robotic rover competition results - Space for All - This is more coverage of the recently held ESA rover competition.
2009 Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest - Space for All - The celebration is this weekend.
Google Lunar X Prize Preferred Providers Offer Variety of Discounts - Parabolic Arc - This includes an FAA COMSTAC presentation on the GLXP (including the discounts and other GLXP subjects) and the LLC by Bretton Alexander.
CanSat Competition - TU Delft - This is another CanSat competition I don't think I've linked to before.
ESA robotic rover competition results - Space for All - This is more coverage of the recently held ESA rover competition.
2009 Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest - Space for All - The celebration is this weekend.
Google Lunar X Prize Preferred Providers Offer Variety of Discounts - Parabolic Arc - This includes an FAA COMSTAC presentation on the GLXP (including the discounts and other GLXP subjects) and the LLC by Bretton Alexander.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Team America Rocketry Challenge Deadline
2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge - Registration Deadline December 1, 2008 - Oregon Space Grant Consortium
4-H'ers, you can enter the 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge - Douglas County Colorado 4-H Blog
4-H'ers, you can enter the 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge - Douglas County Colorado 4-H Blog
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Water Rocket Challenges
It looks like a few days after the last time I checked up on them, the water rocket folks updated their website so it no longer looks like a certain news site. They still have a number of competitions listed. The 1,000 foot challenge runs through the end of the year.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Water Rocketry
The Water Rocket Achievement World Record Association 2008 - This is probably old, since my link to the US Water Rockets site is one I bookmarked a long time ago and just revisited on a whim. The promotion:
Do you have what it takes to fly a water rocket over 1,000 feet? If you think you do, then you could take home a fabulous prize in the officially sanctioned WRA2 "1,000 Foot Challenge" Competition!
Here are all of the competitions. They include single and multi-stage vehicles, completely hand-built ones, and so on.
Do you have what it takes to fly a water rocket over 1,000 feet? If you think you do, then you could take home a fabulous prize in the officially sanctioned WRA2 "1,000 Foot Challenge" Competition!
Here are all of the competitions. They include single and multi-stage vehicles, completely hand-built ones, and so on.
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