WASHINGTON — After months of stating that it would offer no further extensions of the Google Lunar X Prize competition, the X Prize Foundation announced Aug. 16 it was effectively giving the five remaining teams a little extra time. In a statement, the foundation, which administers the lunar landing competition, […]
Daily Archives: August 16, 2017
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1. This is the anniversary of the day in 1898 when a patent was granted to Edwin Prescott for the first rollercoaster with a vertical loop. 2. Actually a French invention called a “Centrifugal Railway” with a vertical loop had been installed in Paris 50 years earlier in 1848. 3. […]
LOGAN, Utah — As the number of cubesats and other small satellites grows, experts advise that some degree of industry self-regulation will be needed to avoid collisions that could lead to more restrictive government regulations. During a panel session at the 31st Annual Conference on Small Satellites here Aug. 6, […]
WASHINGTON — An unnamed backer of Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast’s proposed radar and optical satellite constellation has asked for UrtheCast to develop a standalone radar satellite ahead of the rest of its constellation. The customer signed a contract in “excess of one hundred million Canadian dollars” ($78.4 million) for […]