by Michael Belfiore | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Got this photo in from Space Exploration Technologies during the night. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is sitting on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral. Over the weekend, the team fired the rocket’s nine engines in a test run lasting several seconds.Next step, a test launch...
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
Here’s an Air Force video report on one of the projects I cover in my book The Department of Mad Scientists.http://www.af.mil/news/video/index.asp?cid=3&sid=11769The X-51 project seeks to break new ground in the field of hypersonic (mach 5+) air breathing...
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
ARPA-E, the wild-haired agency of the Department of Energy inspired by DARPA, has just announced that it will award an additional $100 million for breakthrough energy projects.Job one for ARPA-E is solving the nation’s energy problems. And high on the list of...
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 3, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
While the space world contemplates the ramifications of NASA’s radical new direction, Space Exploration Technologies is gearing up for the first commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station.This photo just in from SpaceX shows technicians loading...
by Michael Belfiore | Jan 27, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
The writing’s been on the wall for some time. Now it looks as though it’s finally going to be official.The Orlando Sentinel quoted some unnamed sources today as saying that the White House is going to fight to axe the multi-billion-dollar Constellation...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 8, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Congrats to Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites for last night’s dramatic rollout of SpaceShipTwo in Mojave.California governor Schwarzenegger was on hand to help christen the ship the VSS Enterprise, and then some 800 spectators partied on—at least until high...
