Silicon Valley space initiatives are reaching around the world and into space. The Hacker Dojo, home to a new Bitcoin ATM, is hosting a 2-day Space Systems Hackathon April 18-19 featuring Bob Twiggs, inventor of the CubeSat and former director of Space Systems Development Laboratory at Stanford University. Attendees will learn fundamentals of space system / subsystem design and engineering, and build their own PocketQubes. The Global Space Balloon Challenge on Apr 18-21, sponsored by Stanford Student Space Initiative, MIT and University of Michigan, is an international education program to encourage student teams to build, launch and recover near-space, high-altitude (18-37 km) balloons. This year more than 30 countries are registered, and rewards will be given for highest altitude, best photograph and best design. Dr. Sean Casey, founder of the Silicon Valley Space Center, presents a 4-part Space Entrepreneurship Series to guide participants through the expanding NewSpace sector. The Apr 22 session Is a Start-up for You? will be followed by Markets and Customers, Competition and Intellectual Property, and Business Canvas Business Model. Forward- and upward-striving enterprises in the area (including Moon Express, Skybox Imaging, Planet Labs, Elysium Space, B612 and Nanosatisfi) are designing lunar landers, planning to protect Earth from asteroid impacts, providing commercial memorial spaceflights and imaging Earth. (Image Credit: SVSC, Hacker Dojo, Stanford, GSBC, Moon Express)
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The International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education and Rencontres du Vietnam are organizing an Exoplanetary Science conference April 20-26 in the central Vietnam city of Quy Nhon. The program consists of plenary sessions for invited in-depth oral presentations and contributed papers in the form of short oral presentation or posters. This will be the 10th in a series of international multidisciplinary meetings created by Jean Trân Thanh Vân on topics such as physics, astronomy and biology. The Scientific Program Committee includes experts from France, Japan, Germany, USA and Switzerland. Jonathan Lunine from Cornell University will give a keynote speech on Exoplanetary Science with the James Webb Space Telescope. Earlier in the week, on Apr 16-18 the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in Daejeon, South Korea will host the CosKASI Conference 2014 on Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade. This is the first such cosmology conference and it celebrates the 40th anniversary of KASI. The workshop will cover recent progress in observational and theoretical cosmology including galaxies and large-scale structures, peculiar velocities, CMB, type IA supernovae, gravitational lensing, early universe, inflation, dark energy, dark matter, non-Gaussianity and numerical simulation. (Image Credit: ICISE, KASI)
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Apr 14 — ISS, LEO: Exp 39 transferring cargo from Progress 55P resupply ship, expecting arrival of Dragon spacecraft on Apr 16; Cmdr Wakata participating in Hybrid Training sessions to monitor / prevent muscle atrophy.
Apr 14 — Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope, LEO: Scanning sky for high-energy gamma-ray light, recent data shows excess of photons (10,000 more than expected) spread evenly in a sphere extending ~5,000 LY from center of Milky Way Galaxy.
Apr 14 — Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon Orbit: Non-essential instruments of solar-powered spacecraft will be powered down during lunar eclipse; will pass through complete shadow twice before eclipse end.
Apr 14 — Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) TCM-2, Mars Trajectory: Spacecraft to perform Trajectory Correction Maneuver #2 today; is now more than half the distance to Mars.
Apr 14 — Bigelow Aerospace LLC,Las Vegas NV: NewSpace company developing Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to launch to ISS on SpaceX CRS 8 in 2015; claims technologies could be adapted for lunar missions in a relatively short timeframe.
Apr 14 — XCOR Aerospace Inc.,Mojave CA: With delivery of XCOR Lynx Mark I cockpit, assembly of the Lynx suborbital spaceplane can begin; company expecting to run ground & flight tests this year.
Apr 14 — Liftport Group,Seattle WA: Continuing R&D of space elevator concepts; completed proposal to NASA for space elevator program designed for GLXP teams.
Apr 14 — Total Lunar Eclipse: First of two lunar eclipses in 2014, completely visible over Pacific Ocean region, Australia, New Zealand, N & S America; begins 18:52 Apr 14, ends 00:39 Apr 15.
Apr 14 — Moon: 3.4° S of Mars, 08:00; 1.9° NNW of Spica, 17:00; full (Pink Moon), 21:44.
Apr 14 — Asteroid 2011 GW9: Near-Earth flyby (0.084 AU).
NET Apr 15 — Sea Launch, Launch Sea Launch AG / Eutelsat 3B, Odyssey Platform, Equator at 154° W: Sea Launch AG rocket to deliver Eutelsat 3B telecommunications satellite into orbit; will be 36th launch; Postponed.
Apr 16 — RSA, Launch Soyuz / EgyptSat 2, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Soyuz rocket to launch EgyptSat 2 Earth observation satellite for Egypt National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences; 21:25:07 local time.
Apr 16 — American Foreign Policy Council, George C. Marshall Institute, Washington DC: Lecture: Space Security and Defense; presented by Eric Sterner, 12:00 EDT.
Apr 17 — Asteroid 2014 GJ45: Near-Earth flyby (0.068 AU).
FRIDAY
Apr 18 — The Space Show, Online / Tiburon CA: Host Dr. David Livingston talks with David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek about their book Marketing The Moon.
Apr 18 — Space Center Houston, Houston TX:Lunch with an Astronaut, David Hilmers; US$49.95 adult.
Apr 18-19 — Hacker Dojo, Mountain View CA:Space Systems Hackathon; featuring Bob Twiggs, inventor of CubeSat and former director of Space Systems Development Laboratory at Stanford University.
Apr 18-21 — Stanford Student Space Initiative, MIT, University of Michigan, Worldwide:Global Space Balloon Challenge; teams from around the World build / launch high altitude balloons and share data.
Apr 18 — Moon: 8.1° N of Antares, 04:00.
Apr 18 — Asteroid 2007 TV18: Near-Earth flyby (0.019 AU).
Apr 18 — Asteroid 2014 CH13: Near-Earth flyby (0.069 AU).
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Silicon Valley space initiatives are reaching around the world and into space. The Hacker Dojo, home to a new Bitcoin ATM, is hosting a 2-day Space Systems Hackathon April 18-19 featuring Bob Twiggs, inventor of the CubeSat and former director of Space Systems Development Laboratory at Stanford University. Attendees will learn fundamentals of space system / subsystem design and engineering, and build their own PocketQubes. The Global Space Balloon Challenge on Apr 18-21, sponsored by Stanford Student Space Initiative, MIT and University of Michigan, is an international education program to encourage student teams to build, launch and recover near-space, high-altitude (18-37 km) balloons. This year more than 30 countries are registered, and rewards will be given for highest altitude, best photograph and best design. Dr. Sean Casey, founder of the Silicon Valley Space Center, presents a 4-part Space Entrepreneurship Series to guide participants through the expanding NewSpace sector. The Apr 22 session Is a Start-up for You? will be followed by Markets and Customers, Competition and Intellectual Property, and Business Canvas Business Model. Forward- and upward-striving enterprises in the area (including Moon Express, Skybox Imaging, Planet Labs, Elysium Space, B612 and Nanosatisfi) are designing lunar landers, planning to protect Earth from asteroid impacts, providing commercial memorial spaceflights and imaging Earth. (Image Credit: SVSC, Hacker Dojo, Stanford, GSBC, Moon Express)
The International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education and Rencontres du Vietnam are organizing an Exoplanetary Science conference April 20-26 in the central Vietnam city of Quy Nhon. The program consists of plenary sessions for invited in-depth oral presentations and contributed papers in the form of short oral presentation or posters. This will be the 10th in a series of international multidisciplinary meetings created by Jean Trân Thanh Vân on topics such as physics, astronomy and biology. The Scientific Program Committee includes experts from France, Japan, Germany, USA and Switzerland. Jonathan Lunine from Cornell University will give a keynote speech on Exoplanetary Science with the James Webb Space Telescope. Earlier in the week, on Apr 16-18 the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in Daejeon, South Korea will host the CosKASI Conference 2014 on Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade. This is the first such cosmology conference and it celebrates the 40th anniversary of KASI. The workshop will cover recent progress in observational and theoretical cosmology including galaxies and large-scale structures, peculiar velocities, CMB, type IA supernovae, gravitational lensing, early universe, inflation, dark energy, dark matter, non-Gaussianity and numerical simulation. (Image Credit: ICISE, KASI)
= All times for terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
= All times for international terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
= All times for space events, and…
= All times for international space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT (‘Universal Time;’ Greenwich, England).
