“With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as…
Month: May 2015
The CubeSat Challenge
“The goal of this challenge is to design a small satellite frame optimized for additive manufacturing. By using the benefits of design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) principles: Mass distributions and materials can…
Winners and Awards: 2015 NASA Student Launch Challenge
“NASA has announced the winners of the 2015 NASA Student Launch challenge, held April 11 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Thirty-five teams from middle schools to universities demonstrated…
NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration
“NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including…
Google and NASA Work With Disney To Inspire Girls
“There are certain television tropes about computer scientists that just drive programmers nuts. They include the portrayal of coders as sun-starved and soft-bellied nerds who spend long hours alone in front of…
NASA Announces Winners of 2015 International Space Apps Challenge
“From a voice and gesture command system for spacecraft, to an app that provides farmers information about their crops’ health, this year’s winners of the International Space Apps Challenge cover a wide…
NASA Releases Abundance of Free Code
“This week, NASA released its second annual Software Catalog, a giant compendium of over 1,000 programs available for free to industry, government agencies, and the general public. The Software Catalog contains the…
Student Wins Prize For Experiment at ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge
“High-school student Arthur Admiraal has been awarded the prestigious Hugo van Woerden Prize by the Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy (KNVWS). He has been honoured for an experiment he performed…
MOOC on Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is everywhere. From your smartphone to your tablet, location enabled devices are present in almost every household. With over 80% of all data having some type of spatial…
Vanderbilt Aerospace Club wins NASA Student Launch Challenge for Third Time
“For the third year in a row, the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has won NASA’s eight-month long rocketry competition – the 2014-15 Student Launch Challenge – beating out 30 other university and college…
Abstract Call: 2015 IAF-SUAC International Student Workshop
“The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is pleased to open a call for abstracts for the 2015 IAF-SUAC International Student Workshop.The International Astronautical Federation and the Space University Administrative Committee (SUAC) organizes for…
Registration Open For LunGradCon 2015
“Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2015) to be held on Monday, July 20, 2015 at the NASA Ames Research Center, preceding the…