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26 Sep 2007, 10:45 am
" (Lawyers help write these announcements.)No, the meteorite that landed in Peru and reportedly made locals sick has not been sold on Ebay.Speaking of making folks sick, please call a doctor not a space lawyer when microbes sent into orbit come back stronger and deadlier than ever.That's all for now. ;)* * *IMAGE CREDIT: NASA. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 10:39 pm
*** Once upon a time, the investment world was jazzed about the possibilities of a global telecommunications system based on radio contact with low earth-orbiting satellites. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 1:16 pm
Patent No. 6,655,637"Spacecraft for removal of space orbital debris"(Via Gene Quinn's "IPWatchDog.com" which is for sale with bidding at $40,000). . . and neither do "Real Texans. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 12:58 pm
I hope they even afford to buy space power when it becomes available.)With the business concept in mind, it's good to see some commercial thinking on space solar power at Google Lunar X Prize, which portrays the concept on its website this way: "Clean solar energy can be sent from space to the earth with solar collectors in high Earth orbit made from lunar materials. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 5:59 am
SPACE SOLAR POWER gets a boost: "After spending weeks in information-gathering mode, a Pentagon analyst says the idea of putting satellites in orbit to harvest solar power and beam it down to Earth has lots of merit - and a test of the concept could be set in motion by 2015. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 9:16 am
This year at NextFest the humans might seem a little envious, since the Google Lunar X Prize will send to the moon only lucky robotic rovers....)Alan Boyle reports on the prize; Space Prizes blog has this roundup; and Clark Lindsey considers some whys and why nots in connection with this exciting contest.It's Friday so I'll link one YouTube promo video (approx 8:13 min).And now that the prize is open and the news has orbited the globe (with official web sites in Spanish, Russian,… [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 12:18 pm
Interesting, also, is that the "contract-as-promise" types -- at least those who want to see Anglo-American contract law as orbiting the moral promise -- probably need to explain why Civil law systems are not better understood as embodying the contract-as-promise idea much better than our own. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 9:10 am
(Some of these presentations may seem familiar -- I've posted about this ECSL offering before, and it's definitely worth another go; click on the above video link for the full menu):Bradford Smith, Alcatel: talks about intellectual property rights an the patentability of orbits and frequencies.Jerome Bequignon, Directorate of Earth Observation of ESA: on the International Charter of Space and Major Disasters and disaster management.Prof. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 3:09 pm
Illinois alumni have earned Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes and Olympic medals, have orbited the earth, and lead international corporations. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 6:27 am
Bear with the personal post that likely violates my own blogger code of conduct (it is my blog). [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:24 am
The truck crash also fractured his pelvis, shoulder blade, and eye orbit and he had most of the muscles in his right arm torn away. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 4:42 am
" did not stand for orbital junk?) [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 1:30 am
That celestial body -- named in 1930 on a suggestion from 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney (above) -- is now classified as a "dwarf planet," along with other bits and pieces orbiting the sun. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 8:01 pm
Buffett's traditional bargain-hunting investment strategy has been partly stymied as debt-fueled private-equity funds and hedge funds drove asset prices out of his value-investing orbit. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 2:43 pm
There is also a history of manned space exploration from the first single orbit around the earth orbit to the launch of Apollo 11 [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 4:37 pm
[Company News] They expect to start selling tickets in 2008.For 3 million Euros you get 18 weeks of preparation on a Caribbean island, the flight into space and three nights in the orbital hotel. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 8:01 pm
Finally, something I can share with my next door neighbor, the astral orbital engineer (see him live on YouTube here!) [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 10:12 am
Of course, what's appropriate and tasteful on an orbiting space hotel may not necessarily fly let's just say, on the shuttle or elsewhere in government space, at least under Rep. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 11:59 am
At this big suborbital space station, a lighter-than-air orbital craft would be constructed. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 10:38 pm
So the sun has an orbit, or an oscillation, relative to the galactic plane, and when it gets to one of the extremes, we get fried with muons. [read post]
