Kentucky Space

Titan haze

This image of Titan's clearly visible haze layer has just been published by the photojournal at NASA.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Funding opportunities available from Kentucky Space Grant Consortium

The Kentucky Space Grant Consortium announced funding opportunities for space-related research and education for 2009-2010. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday February 11, 2009, at 4pm CT. See the link above for proposal instructions.

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Space elevator pix on Flickr

The Space Elevator blog has set up a photostream at Flickr for all the photos accumulated the past couple of years. Pictures from the 2007 competition, like the one above of UBC-Snowstar team members setting up a solar array, have been the first to be uploaded.

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What is Kentucky Space?

Audio from Kris Kimel's appearance on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston is now available online. If you've been wondering what Kentucky Space is all about, check out the interview.

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Lunar hardware

Space Prizes: Google Lunar X Prize teams are showing off some of their hardware.

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"Satellite on a stick": Data from comms test good. Satellite performed flawlessly

Data from the comm system tests at Morehead State this month was very encouraging. Here is a picture provided by Dr. Malphrus, who also provided specifics about the test in this audio update.

Have a listen:

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More Kentucky Space images

Space Show visitors: many images from Kentucky Space may be found elsewhere on the blog. Please have a look around, particularly at the Flickr badges in the right sidebar. Some exceptional images from our summer high altitude balloon launch may be found here.

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Kris Kimel on The Space Show now

Kris Kimel is now on The Space Show. Direct link to listen online is here.

The Year in Space

At Cosmic Log, Alan Boyle recaps the year in space, covering, among other topics, the space exploration and entrepreneurial activities. Check it out. It's well worth the read.

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Video of WhiteKnightTwo first flight posted

Rob Coppinger has video of the first flight of White Knight Two, the mother ship that will take SpaceShipTwo to altitude before releasing the smaller vehicle to take tourists to the edge of space. Flightglobal has more.

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