SpaceX’s Own Spaceport Will Not Affect NASA or DoD Operations, Part 1

Yesterday, I expanded on a Space Review post of the possible reasons Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) is moving launch operations to Texas. The company believes it will conduct about 12 launches a year from its own space launch complexes near Brownsville, Texas. Such a launch rate is more than triple SpaceX’s 2013 launch rate of 3 […]

Five Reasons SpaceX Wants to Launch from Texas

Edward Ellegood wrote a very good post on The Space Review yesterday about why SpaceX is moving launch operations to Texas. Back in August, I also posted some conjecture about SpaceX’s reasons for moving launch operations to Texas. But Ellegood goes into a bit more detail than I did, so it might be a worthwhile […]

Four New Space Companies Awarded NASA Contracts

Another Clearancejobs.com post of mine about NASA’s announcement last week of their awarding four “new space” companies a few contracts. Just go there for the details: New Space Firms Awarded NASA Contracts.

DIY Space: Predict The Future of Space Exploration

Do you have a penchant for prophecy? Do your officemates hang on every word when you dole out the divination? Is your casting Kung Fu strong? Then maybe this will be an easy DIY for you. The folks at OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer) are asking for the public to come forecast […]

Healing Robot Arms from Space

Fox News recently reported about the Canadian Space Agency’s contributions to medicine with Canadarm. Canadarm 2 is a robotic and remote controlled arm mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). The original Canadarm was mounted on the space shuttle. Both robotic arms were designed to do work outside in space, while astronauts controlled the arms in the relative safety of […]