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• Tesla withdrawing from the Progressive Automotive X-Prize competition

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 523
  Saying that it needs to focus on getting the Model S sedan ready for production by 2011, Tesla has decided to pull itself out from the Progressive Automotive X-Prize Competition. The winner of this green competition would be the first company that can develop a production-ready vehicle that gets more than 100 mpg (or ...
  9 hours ago

• Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Rollout: The X PRIZE Perspective

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 126
  Here is a quick debrief with Will Pomerantz and Nicky Jordan about yesterdays event in the Mojave (in case you missed it, there are plenty of articles written about the SS2 unveiling, like here and here . And here .) There was quite a crowd present for the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo. Who were some of the ...
  2 days ago

• REPORT: Tesla goes from competitor to demonstrator in Automotive X Prize

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 676
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Automotive X-Prize Tesla Model S - Click above for high-res image gallery The Automotive X Prize lost another vehicle this week with the announcement that Tesla Motors will no longer be entering the Model S in the competition division. Instead, the ...
  2 days ago

• Unreasonable Rocket “Blue Ball” Possible Flight Over 10k

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 607
  Paul Breed explains that he  may fly the Blue Ball to its maximum altitude:  The Blue ball has minimal development value for where I want to go with Urocket.I was going to donate it to the Xprize to hang in their lobby. I talked to my accountant today and learned that I can’t have an [...]
  2 days ago

• White Label Space Release Mission Concept

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 607
  Andrew Barton sends word that the Google Lunar X PRIZE team “White Label Space” have released their mission Concept: After many months of work we are finally ready to release our first major technical description of our Google Lunar X PRIZE mission. We call it the Mission Concept Summary and it is available for ...
  2 days ago

• Pomerantz at the Virgin Galactic premier

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  William Pomerantz , Senior Director Space Prizes, X PRIZE Foundation at Virgin Galactics unveiling of the VSS Enterprise ; Mojave, December 7, 2009 Lunar Pioneer, LLPThe Lunar CenturyGroup News Traffic via Lunar Networkshttp://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com
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• Virgin Galactic SS2 Rollout: The Pomerantz Report

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 126
  The Pomerantz Report has returned, with a report from the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unveiling event on December 7, 2009:
  2 days ago

• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceshipTwo

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia We’ve seen the mothership from which the world’s first manned commercial spaceship will be air launched and we’ve even seen design images of the craft itself . Now Virgin Galactic has unveiled the actual spaceship that will take private astronauts into space – SpaceshipTwo (SS2). ...
  3 days ago

• Richard Branson unveils civilian spacecraft & commercial spaceflights

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  British billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson unveiled his plan to allow any one of us regular folks with dreams of space travel and to experience the thrill of weightlessness to do so. Branson announced the roll-out of the Virgin Galactic spaceliner in California’s Mojave desert on Monday, December 7, ...
  3 days ago

• EE Exclusive MMA Champions Randy Couture Action Figure

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 155
  EE Exclusive MMA Champions Randy Couture Action Figure An Entertainment Earth / Comic-Con 2008 Exclusive! Take on this superstar of the MMA! Extremely detailed and highly accurate. Bring the nonstop MMA action [...]
  3 days ago

• Money Talks: Cash Prizes Spur Innovation

  
  ThePumaBlog — Authority: 111
  In the glorious Past Before Television, adventurous men and women gained fame and fortune by testing their skills in competitions designed to expand the limits of human knowledge and innovation. Several organizations are bringing back this kind of “innovation prize” in a big way, with competitions designed to ...
  3 days ago

• Money Talks: Cash Prizes Spur Innovation

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 656
  In the glorious Past Before Television, adventurous men and women gained fame and fortune by testing their skills in competitions designed to expand the limits of human knowledge and innovation. Several organizations are bringing back this kind of “innovation prize” in a big way, with competitions designed to ...
  3 days ago

• Electric Vehicle Growth in the News

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 656
  In years to come, we may look back on 2009 as the year that electric vehicles became mainstream, at least as far the media is concerned. The past few weeks have been no different as a number of organizations from all over the automotive industry made EV-related announcements. One of these organizations, the Cleantech ...
  4 days ago

• Electric Vehicles: The News Keeps Coming

  
  ThePumaBlog — Authority: 111
  In years to come, we may look back on 2009 as the year that electric vehicles became mainstream, at least as far the media is concerned. The past few weeks have been no different as a number of organizations from all over the automotive industry made EV-related announcements. One of these organizations, the Cleantech ...
  4 days ago

• "Virgin Galactic"

  
  Platonic Shift — Authority: 128
  ...the title for a new variety of R.C. sci-fi novel? No - this is a reference to the Virgin Group Inc.s commercial spaceflight venture: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship (AP) -- A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the ...
  4 days ago

• Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us: Congratulations to Virgin Galactic

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 126
  By Peter H. Diamandis Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation Today Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites will roll out SpaceShipTwo (SS2) a commercial passenger carrying spaceship derived from the winning ship which captured the $10M Ansari X PRIZE for spaceflight in 2004. While SpaceShipOne (SS1) carried ...
  4 days ago

• JURBAN partners with Tree House Ventures

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  The Baltimore based Google Lunar X PRIZE team JURBAN has announced partnering with Virginia-based Tree House Ventures in preparation for a commercial launch of an unmanned robotic "swarm" to the moon by 2012. Hat tip to SpaceRef, HERE . Lunar Pioneer, LLPThe Lunar CenturyGroup News Traffic ...
  6 days ago

• The strange power of prizes

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 537
  Prizes are powerful incentives. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic to win the $25,00 Orteig prize. Tartan Racing , a collaboration between students at Carnegie Mellon and General Motors, won a $2 million prize in the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge , a competition to develop an  autonomous ...
  1 week ago

• Peter Diamandis: the joy of taking risks

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 127
  Source: New Scientist Published in New Scientist on 11/4/09 (Author, Ivan Semeniuk) Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X Prize Foundation, wants to use our competitive instincts to make the world a better place. After handing out $10 million to the first private team to achieve suborbital space flight, he’s extended ...
  1 week ago

• Space Frontier Ideas, Student Prizes, Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Action, Earth Prizes

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 126
  NASA Centennial Challenges @ SpaceFrontier : The Space Frontier Foundations 2009 submission to NASA for six new prizes to Centennial Challenges. http://bit.ly/6NYtKi Some of the ideas include the "Explore Space!" student science fair competition where the prize is student access to a suborbital rocket, ...
  1 week ago

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