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A NASA Spinoff That Saved Lives
A NASA Spinoff That Saved Lives

Using Space Radar To Hear Human Heartbeats in Nepal, SpaceRef “On 24 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal – a nation woefully unprepared to respond to such an event. Dozens of aftershocks have rattled the country daily for the past month. One especially large aftershock of magnitude 7.4 on 12 May caused the already-shattered infrastructure to collapse further. Nepal needed help – help that did not rely upon […]

  • NASA Watch
  • May 26, 2015
NASA Funds University Smallsats to Spur Innovation

NASA Selects University Teams for New SmallSat Collaborative Projects, NASA “NASA has selected 13 university teams for collaborative projects to develop and demonstrate new technologies and capabilities and spur innovation in communication, navigation, propulsion, science instruments, and advanced manufacturing for small spacecraft. Selected project teams will work with engineers and scientists from six NASA centers. The goal of these efforts is to transform small spacecraft, some of which weigh only […]

  • NASA Watch
  • August 12, 2013
Has CubeSats Time Come?

Can CubeSats do quality science? For one group, yes NewSpace Journal “While interest in CubeSats–spacecraft as small as ten centimeters on a side and weighing one kilogram–has grown in recent years, one challenge facing the community of CubeSat developers is whether such spacecraft can perform useful missions, beyond education (many satellites are built by student groups) and technology development and demonstration. For one group at the University of Colorado, it […]

  • NASA Watch
  • August 11, 2013
Silicon Valley, NASA and Startups

The Silicon Valley of space could be Silicon Valley, The Space Review “For nearly a decade, many have called the Mojave Air and Space Port the Silicon Valley of the entrepreneurial space, or NewSpace, industry, and understandably so. The spaceport is home to Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic’s The Spaceship Company, XCOR Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Stratolaunch Systems, and others, filling the spaceport’s hangars and buildings to capacity. More recently, the […]

  • NASA Watch
  • July 30, 2013
Saving Money with 3D Printing

Hot-Fire Tests Show 3-D Printed Rocket Parts Rival Traditionally Manufactured Parts, NASA “What can survive blazing temperatures of almost 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit without melting? What did not break apart at extreme pressures? What is made by a new process that forms a complex part in just one piece? What takes less than three weeks to go from manufacturing to testing? What can reduce the costs of expensive rocket parts by […]

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  • July 25, 2013
JPL Makes the Cut in DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge

JPL Scores High in DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge [Watch], NASA JPL “The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected a group from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., as one of the teams entitled to move forward from the Virtual Robotics Challenge, the first event of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. … The top teams, including JPL, were entitled to funding and an ATLAS robot from DARPA to compete in […]

  • NASA Watch
  • June 28, 2013
NASA Space App Challenge Yields Real Results

NASA Space App Challenge: OpenROV – An Open Source Exploration Vehicle, NASA HackSpace “This month, NASA engineer Eric Stackpole hiked to a spot in Trinity County, east of California’s rough Bigfoot country. Locals whisper the cave’s deep pools hold a cache of stolen gold, but Mr. Stackpole isn’t here to look for treasure. He had, under his arm, what might appear to be a clunky toy blue submarine about the […]

  • NASA Watch
  • June 20, 2012
Top Stories at NASAHackSpace

– Astrobotic’s Moon Rover – Printable Robots – Using Airships for Space Research – Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge Winners Announced – Open Source Tricorder Project

  • NASA Watch
  • April 3, 2012
NASAHackSpace This Weekend

– Using the ISS To Teach – Using Pulsars To Navigate in Space – NASA’s Ultra Super Black Material – Why Wikis at NASA? – Science Magazine Honors Open Source Physics – Campus Party Silicon Valley Announcement

  • NASA Watch
  • November 27, 2011
NASAHackSpace This Week – So Far

– Contact Lens Computer Displays – Creating A Moonbase In Manhattan – UKube-1 Cubesat Final Design – President’s Science Advisor Visits NASA GRC – FameLab Astrobiology Competition – Game-Changing Technologies at NASA – Mighty Eagle Lander Test Reaches Higher

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  • November 23, 2011
NASAHackSpace This Week – So Far

– NASA and a Green Workforce – STEM Education at NASA – Consider Supporting Shackleton Energy Company’s Fuel Depot Business – ESA’s Mission X Astronaut Training Program – Flight Opportunities for Microgravity – Suborbital Science – ESA’s Cubesats Readied For Inaugural Launch of Vega – Vermont Lunar Cubesat Project – XCOR Competition for Free Suborbital Research Flight – UCF Parabolic Flights Ahead – White House Honors STEM Mentors

  • NASA Watch
  • November 17, 2011