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FEB 06, 2018: 
FALCON HEAVY LAUNCH & LANDING

 

 

FEB 09, 2018:

FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION 2018 COMPENDIUM REPORT

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FEB 09, 2017: 
FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION 2017 COMPENDIUM REPORT

 

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PLEASE NOTE: The date on the 2016 Compendium may seem to be a "skip" in years. FAA AST did this intentionally, based on the following reasoning. The Compendium is published each January, showing that current year on the cover. It implies coverage of previous year's activities, but the Compendium has more than historical data in it. It is a summary of vehicles, activities, ideas, thinking and projections regarding the commercial space industry.

FEB 05, 2016:
FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION
2015 COMPENDIUM REPORT

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FEB 22, 2015:
FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION
2014 COMPENDIUM REPORT

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FEB 25, 2014: FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION 2013 COMPENDIUM REPORT

 

 

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FEB 9, 2013: FAA OFFICE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION 2012 COMPENDIUM REPORT

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APRIL 5, 2012: FAA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION
PLAQUE DELIVERED TO UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH (UTMB) AT GALVESTON!

 

 

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MARCH 2, 2012:
FAA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION
PLAQUE DELIVERED TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY!

 

  

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011: FAA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION PLAQUE DELIVERED TO CU!

Nick Demivovich of the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (left) and Dr. David Klaus of the University of Colorado at Boulder (right) display the 28-pound bronze plaque that demonstrates CU's membership in the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation.

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Retired on 14 November 2011:

OCTOBER 26-27, 2011: ESIL-01 WORKSHOP

 The First Emerging Space Industry Leaders (ESIL-01) Workshop was held on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder on 26-27 October 2011. The group was given presentations on topics of business and entrepreneurship and performed a Michael Porter Industry Structural Analysis on three commercial space markets. For a listing of all the presentations and links to the resulting students' presentations, go to the ESIL-01 Workshop Page.

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Retired on 1 November 2011:

JANUARY 7, 2011

AIAA VISIT TO SPACEX SPACE LAUNCH COMPLEX 40

 

On January 7, 20011, a group of attendees from the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Florida, visited SpaceX's Space Launch Complex 40.

 

Retired on 8 January 2011:

 

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
AIAA COMMERCIAL SPACE GROUP SPACEX INDUSTRY VISIT

 

The AIAA Commercial Space Group led an industry visit to SpaceX's Hawthorne facility in conjunction with the AIAA Space 2010 Conference. (Click on the low-resolution picture above to download the high-resolution version.)

 

 

Retired 3 September 2010:

 

JUNE 4, 2010 - SPACEX FALCON9 REACHES LEO ON MAIDEN FLIGHT
(photo by Robert Pearlman - borrowed from twitpic page http://twitpic.com/1twaez)

 

 

Retired 2010 June 2010:

 

AIAA Commercial Space Group - Kennedy Space Center Visit #2

 

Group picture of Kennedy Space Center Visit #2 Attendees with the Space Shuttle Endeavor in the background. 7 Jan 2010.

 

 

Retired on 2010 Jan 09:

AIAA Commercial Space Group - Mojave Industry Visit #2

 

 

Group picture of Mojave Industry Visit #2 Attendees with the Masten Space Systems Xombie vehicle. 17 Sept 2009.

The day before this, Xombie had flown a beautiful first leg in Level One of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge

(a NASA Centennial Challenges competition) but the Masten team decided not to attempt the return flight because of thrust chamber damage.

For more information, check out their company page, including twitter feeds, blog entries, news search results, and videos.

The only person not in the picture, because he was taking the shot, is Ben Brockert. Thanks, Ben!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FLICKR SLIDESHOW OF THIS VISIT.

 

Retired on 2009 Sept 17:

SpaceX Falcon 1 Flight 5 Sucessfully Places Payload in Orbit!!!

 

Retired on 2009 July 14:

 

Picture of the new Soyuz launch pad at the Guianaise Space Center (Centre Guyanaise Spatiale, or CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana.

(picture by Ken Davidian on 30 June 2009)

 

Retired on 2009 July 1:

 

The following quotes are from "The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do" by Clotaire Rapaille. All emphasis of text is mine.   "The Culture Code is the unconscious meaning we apply to any given thing." - Introduction "The American Culture Code for America is DREAM." - Chapter 12 NEVER GROWING UP, NEVER GIVING UP The Code for America "Remaining on Code means supporting our dreams and our dreamers. We want to encourage people to have big ideas, to take risks, and to learn from their mistakes. We want to promote reinvention and starting over." - Chapter 12 "America should never shut the door to exploration and discovery. As impractical as it seems, the space program is right on Code. The American journey to the moon is a landmark in the history of our culture and the history of the world. We were the first people ever to free ourselves from this planet and go to another one. Rather than closing down the space program because it costs too much and accomplishes too little, we should set grander goals. If going to Mars seems nearly impossible, it will be that much more satisfying to get there. Dreams are priceless." - Chapter 12

 

Retired on 2009 May 17:

 

 

2009 January 08: The AIAA Commercial Space Group (CSG) led a tour of about 40 attendees (most of whom are shown above) to visit multiple sitesat the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA Kennedy Space Center, including the high-bay integration facility of Astrotech, a commercial provider of satellite launch processing services, and a SPACEHAB subsidiary.

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2009 January 08: The AIAA Commercial Space Group (CSG) led a tour to visit multiple sitesat the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA Kennedy Space Center, including the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC40) which is where the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle is fully integrated and lying on its side. We were not allowed to get off the bus to get any closer than the parking lot located about one mile away. This is the best resolution picture I could get from that distance. 

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2008 November 17: The AIAA Commercial Space Group (CSG) led a tour to visit the Mojave Air & Space Port and three of its tenant companies.

Here the group is standing in front of a full-scale SpaceShipOne model located in the Space Port's Legacy Park.

(In the picture, from left to right: Karen Barker-Office of Space Commercialization, Cecilia Capece-AIAA, Jeff Foust-Futron, Eleanor Aldrich-AIAA, Elizabeth Carter-AIAA,

Ron Freeman-Northrop Grumman, Charles Lillie-Northrop Grumman, Pat Hynes-NM Space Grant, Mari Gravlee-ULA, Andy Petro-NASA HQ, Carl Ehrlich-Retired,

Tony Taylor-Airborne Systems. Not shown: Greg Poteat, Syri Koelfgen, and Russ Barber, all from NASA DFRC, and Ken Davidian-FAA AST-taking the picture.)

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2008 Jun 27:

 

• The Real Story on the Falcon 1 Launch Delay from Clark Lindsey's RLVNews.com: "Replacement of a nozzle due to a small defect was the reason the Falcon I launch missed its initial June launch window: Minute Defect Delays SpaceX's Falcon 1 Launch Again - SPACE.com. The earlier news about the site being closed during July was incorrect."

 

2008 Jun 24:

 

• SpaceX pushes back target date for next Falcon 1 launch - BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW - Posted: June 23, 2008 - The military informed SpaceX last week that mandatory support equipment and tracking stations in the Pacific Ocean are booked through the end of July, forcing officials to delay launch of the next Falcon 1 rocket, the company's founder said Friday. (more...)

 

2008 Jun 23:

 

• McCain Prize For Better Car Battery - Sen. John McCain made a speech at Fresno State University today and called for a prize to accelerate the development of a better car battery. Links to stories about this announcement:
• McCain's $300 Million Prize …and Other Matters from His Santa ... ABC News
• McCain Focuses On Energy CBS News
• McCain offers $300 million for new auto battery The Associated Press
• KQCA, My58.com - ABC30.com
• McCain plan: $300 million prize for better car battery CNN

 

2008 Jun 22:

 

• A.C. Charania, author of the Planetary Defense Blog (primarily concerned with "relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects (NEOs) including concepts and designs for mitigation"), posts "Additional Notes on H.R. 6063" that gives the modified wording of the prize authorization language in the NASA Authorization Bill that recently passed the House. Even though this bill probably won't get passed, it's an indication of what the House legislators are thinking and might be used as guidance by the incoming administration.

 

2008 Jun 20:

• The third flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has been rescheduled from 23 June to 27 June.
• I took notes at the Space Foundation's Space Business Forum in New York on Wendesday, 19 June, and the notes can be found in the Notes from Commercial Space Meetings file (scroll down to the bottom and start reading from the bottom up) or at www.tweme.com/newspace (not a complete set for some reason not all tweets made it into the newspace site on tweme).

 

2008 Jun 18:

• I found out that everybody was getting notifications every time there were changes made to the wiki, so I stopped all email notifications to everybody and made the following setting changes:

  Notifications

  Who receives notifications about changes to this wiki?

  Send notifications to the user making the edit 

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  On login pages, disable notifications by default

I apologize for all those notifications to everybody, and if you STOP getting notifications and you'd like to get them again, I think you can make that change yourself in the "Settings" change... Sorry again!

 

2008 Jun 17:

• This from Michael Mealling: "NEW YORK, New York (Space Business Forum: New York) Space Angels Network, LLC, a national network of seed- and early-stage investors focused on aerospace-related ventures, announced today its initial group of “Founding Members”—individual accredited investors with significant experience in aerospace ventures. Founding Members include: Esther Dyson of EDventure Holdings (www.edventure.com) in New York; Stephen Fleming of Atlanta Technology Angels (www.angelatlanta.com) in Georgia; David S. Rose of New York Angels (www.newyorkangels.com) in New York; and Ed Tuck of Falcon Fund (www.falconfund.com) in California." For more info, go to: tinyurl.com/5buywt.

 

2008 Jun 10:

• I decided to give naming rights of this wiki page to Michael Mealling since he ponied up the $$$ to upgrade the wiki from the free (no cost) set of pages to what is called "Silver Status". Thanks Mike! Due to his generosity, we now have 10GB of file space (so I can start bringing files onto this site which otherwise would not have been able to be housed here)!
• The NASA Academy folks, Brad Cheetham in particular, have begun posting on this wiki. The name of their project is "The Roadmap to a Space Faring Civilization" and they have created a folder called "The Roadmap" in this wiki to begin defining their project.