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• Google Lunar X Prize’s Omega Envoy Adds SolidWorks as Sponsor

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 446
  OMEGA ENVOY PRESS RELEASE 23 December 2009 The Omega Envoy Project is proud to announce the addition of SolidWorks as a sponsor for the only student‐led entry in a $30 million international competition, sponsored by Google, to land a robot on the moon. (...) Read the rest of Google Lunar X Prize’s Omega ...
  22 hours ago

• NASA Innocentive Pavilion, Rocketry Award, Google Map Maker Competition, GeoVation, Selenokhod Interview, PT Scientists Twitter, More

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  @ InnocentiveCEO - New $30K NASA Competition on InnoCentive.com! Data Driven Forecasting of Solar Events. http://tinyurl.com/yejas7r To expand on that tweet, heres the NASA Innovation Pavilion on Innocentive. Currently, the challenges there are: Mechanism for a Compact Aerobic and Resistive Exercise Device ...
  6 days ago

• Google Lunar X Prize Competitor LunaTrex Loses Its Name

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 446
  LunaTrex name now defunct: Court orders team members to cease using logo The Herald Bulletin A federal judge ordered that members of a team competing to send a rover to the moon could not use the group’s originally trademarked name, LunaTrex. Use of the LunaTrex name and logo was at issue since members of ...
  1 week ago

• Prize Tweet Collection and Some Speculation

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  @ doug_comstock - NASA Year in Review 2009, 15 highlights include IPPs Spinoffs and Prize winning rockets! Vote for your favorite: http://tinyurl.com/NASA09 @ ad_astra2 - Yay X PRIZE Lab students!] RT @ MITNews : How to spur energy storage innovations (an X-prize maybe?): http://tinyurl.com/ydnc3ak ...
  1 week ago

• Friday Fun Day #FFD: Top Space Events of 2009

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  Happy Friday everyone! The space team at X PRIZE came to the realization this week that the end of 2009 approaching at light speed! At lunch the other day, as our team ruminated on some of the major space happenings in oh-nine, we realized that it was a pretty cool year for space. It was full of exciting events and ...
  1 week ago

• Driving the Spira 3-wheel prototype

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  The Spira three-wheeler is a unique vehicle. It’s one of the finalists in the Automotive X-Prize but its frugal fuel consumption and low emissions are only part of the vision of making it a car for the people. The Spira starts with a scooter, uses everything but the frame, and all those parts bolt into a foam ...
  2 weeks ago

• Full Week Space Prize Roundup

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  Heres the latest space prize roundup, covering about a week of activity. Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #3 - Luna C/I NASA Centennial Challenges gets funding boost - RLV News Fate of the Blue Ball.... - Unreasonable Rocket An Unreasonable flight of the Blue Ball - RLV News @ spacecom : ATV Operations ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA to offer new prizes for space-related inventions

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• NASA to offer new prizes for space-related inventions

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 160
  Bookmark this categoryBuried deep within the 339 page Congressional report on the “Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2010″ that just came out of conference was a small number in a long table that could have a big impact for space-related innovation.The language in the bill ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driving the Spira 3-wheel prototype

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 699
  The Spira three-wheeler is a unique vehicle. Its one of the finalists in the Automotive X-Prize but its frugal fuel consumption and low emissions are only part of the vision of making it a car for the people. The Spira starts with a scooter, uses everything but the frame, and all those parts bolt into a foam composite ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tesla withdrawing from the Progressive Automotive X-Prize competition

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 502
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• X PRIZE Coverage of a Historic Day for Commercial Space

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  Great video with clips from speakers at the Virgin Galactic unveiling event. Kudos to our amazing production team at X PRIZE!
  2 weeks ago

• Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Rollout: The X PRIZE Perspective

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 673
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 588
  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 weeks ago

• White Label Space Release Mission Concept

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 588
  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 weeks ago

• Pomerantz at the Virgin Galactic premier

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 138
  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
  3 weeks ago

• Virgin Galactic SS2 Rollout: The Pomerantz Report

  
  The Launch Pad — Authority: 124
  The Pomerantz Report has returned, with a report from the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unveiling event on December 7, 2009:
  3 weeks ago

• SmartPower Taps Crowd Power in $10,000 Video Contest

  
  ThePumaBlog — Authority: 106
  According to non-profit marketing organization SmartPower , even though 80 to 90 percent of the public agrees that energy from renewable sources is better than energy produced from fossil fuels, and they are willing to pay $5 or $10 more per month for that energy, the market penetration of renewable energy products ...
  3 weeks ago

• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceshipTwo

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  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 weeks ago

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