Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Crown’s Space Solar Power as the #1 Idea in the Federal Government For the first time, a visionary space development idea tops the agenda of America’s foreign policy establishment—Space Based Solar Power, an idea that could completely solve climate change, completely get us off foreign oil, allow a first world life-style for the entire world, swept the D3 innovation awards! On 2 March, an.. Read More

On March 4th, SpaceX tried to land a Dragon rocket on a barge 200 miles from land in the Atlantic Ocean. The attempt failed. Just as SpaceX’s head Elon Musk said it would. But, says Musk, the next attempt—the fifth—just may succeed. SpaceX wants to make that next attempt on April 8th with a flight launching at 4:43 EDT from Cape Canaveral “if the barge is ready.” Why is Musk.. Read More

Academy Award®-nominated director Orlando von Einsiedel, Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, Bad Robot and Epic Digital have joined forces with Google and XPRIZE to create a documentary web series about the people competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (http://lunar.xprize.org). The Google Lunar XPRIZE is the largest prize competition of all time with a reward of $30 million and aims to incentivize entrepreneurs to create a new era of affordable access to.. Read More

A revolution in Capitol Hill space priorities took place at a recent, overlooked House Space Subcommittee hearing. And seemingly only one journalist noticed: Eric Berger of Ars Technica.    The House Space Subcommittee, chaired by Republican Brian Babin of Texas in early February, heard testimony from experts that a new administration would have to rethink space exploration policy. The Congressional members on the committee looked down with disdain on the.. Read More

A decade ago, Col. M. V. “Coyote” Smith, while working for the Pentagon’s National Security Space Office, was given a mission to save the world – without any money and a six-month deadline. He jumped at the challenge. His space-based solar power proposal is in the running to win perhaps as much as $10 billion to develop and deploy such systems. Smith’s DOD proposal, entitled “Carbon-Free Energy for Global Resilience and International Goodwill,” is.. Read More

The Ohio Team managing the 2016 SunSat Competition has decided to extend the deadline for participant registration. The new date for “Intention to Compete” submission is now January 25, 2016. If you are aware of students/faculty/scientists/engineers/professionals who are doing forward-thinking research and development in some area(s) of Wireless Power Transmission, please share with them our International SunSat Design Competition website. As you may know, $10,000 prizes were awarded to finalists announced at the.. Read More

As reported at The Verge and NASA Spaceflight, NASA officials admitted today the Space Launch System is a vehicle without a mission plan. The agency acknowledged what is essentially an empty flight manifest for the SLS at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida during an all-hands meeting on Monday. A test flight of the rocket, which will send people into orbit around the Moon, was originally planned for no later than August.. Read More

Irene Klotz of Reuters reports that NASA has hired Sierra Nevada Corp to its list of companies to fly cargo to the International Space Station. Sierra Nevada will Join SpaceX and Orbital ATK. The Dream Chaser is designed to land horizontally on a runway, similar to the Space Shuttle. Full story here.