Keith’s note: According to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s new report on Low Earth Orbit research: “The United States holds the preeminent global position in space […]
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CASIS Clarifies Its Expansion Ambitions
CASIS Announces Its Commercial Business Expansion Plans, earlier post (March 2019) “CASIS Chief Strategy Officer Richard Leach made a presentation “Forecasting the 2024-2035 Space Based National Laboratory for Life and […]
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NASA PAO Is Confused About The Microgravity/Weightlessness Thing
Today's dazed and confused @NASA press release sentence award goes to @NASA_Ames for this: "Orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth in the weightlessness of microgravity" https://t.co/ZJ86lUYTYa pic.twitter.com/empirmMqLI — NASA […]
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Playing 20 Questions With A Microgravity Company
ACME Advanced Materials, Inc Announces First Commercial Production of 4″ SiC Wafers in Microgravity “ACME Advanced Materials, Inc. today announced the successful commercialization of its process to produce large quantities […]
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JSC Ordered To Shut Down Reduced Flight Program
Keith’s note: The Technical Capabilities Assessment Team has decided to shut down the reduced flight program at JSC and transfer what is left of it to AFRC. JSC Center Director […]
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Is Earthbound Innovation Outpacing Microgravity Research?
Bioreactors Drive Advances in Tissue Engineering, NASA Spinoffs 2011 “Johnson Space Center innovators created a rotating wall bioreactor that mimics microgravity conditions, allowing for healthier, more natural-forming cell cultures. Licensed […]
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Another Alternative to ISS-Based Research (Update)
Magnetically-levitated Flies Offer Clues to Future of Life in Space “Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions […]
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Suborbital & Parabolic Payloads Sought
NASA Opportunities for Payloads Requiring an Near-Zero or Reduced Gravity Environment “Payloads selected under this announcement will fly on aircraft that provide parabolic flight trajectories and on suborbital reusable launch […]
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Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles Payload Solicitation
NASA Solicitation: Flight and Payload Services for Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles “This notice is issued by the NASA/DFRC to post a draft RFP via the internet, and solicit responses from […]
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EIAST and Bigelow Aerospace Sign Agreement
EIAST and Bigelow Aerospace sign agreement to create next-generation commercial human spaceflight programme “The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) and Bigelow Aerospace LLC, an organisation dedicated to […]