Oenoview improves French wine with satellite imagery

While many people enjoy gazing at the galaxies while sipping a glass of Cabernet on their back porch, very few know that in fact space technology is being used to help make better wine. Vintners in France are using satellite imagery to improve their grape harvests, adding space-age technology to the quintessentially French art of [...]

From Surgical Lasers to Optics in Satellites to Prints at Walgreens, ATFilms is a Leader in High-End Precision Laser Optics

From high-end surgical lasers used in operating rooms, to the optics in satellites mapping the polar ice caps, to the processes Walgreens uses to print the pictures of your family’s trip to the Florida Keys, Advanced Thin Films has taken high-end precision laser optics to a new level of diversity and quality.
The Boulder, Colo.-based manufacturing [...]

Earth and lunar orbit just like home for Broad Reach

8th Continent Project Founding Sponsor Profiles
Though “Broad Reach” is a nautical term, 8th Continent Project founding sponsor Broad Reach Engineering prides itself on its wide range of talents, agility and ability to develop new products specifically for unique spaceflight missions.
What this means, Christian Lenz said, is that “Broad Reach looks at available technology and sees [...]

PowerBeam moves electricity without wires

According to Chris Surdi, marketing specialist for PowerBeam, a member of the 8th Continent Chamber of Commerce, wireless electricity really is as simple as it sounds.
PowerBeam is revolutionizing power transmission by integrating optical technology to produce safe, reliable and abundant wireless power. Through its patented technology, PowerBeam can “beam” power over great distances to devices [...]

8C Chamber Profile: Emergent Space Technologies

There is something deeply inspiring and deeply American about the notion of starting a business from the ground up, literally in a garage, supported only by vision, brains and drive. That’s how amazon.com – now a global brand – got its start. And, it could also quite literally be the way Space 2.0 evolves.
Emergent Space [...]

8C Chamber Profile: Planehook Aviation Services

Posted on June 11, 2009 by the 8C Project
When most people think of space, they don’t often think of corporate espionage. But since 2004, Dave Hook, founder and President of Planehook Aviation Services, has not only been thinking about it but has built his business around doing something about it.
“People working in the commercial space [...]

Media Opportunity: PopSci’s ‘Best of What’s New’

Got a great idea – or a great company? One of our founding sponsors, strategic communications firm Metzger Associates, identified a national competition that seems tailor-made for some of 8th Continent’s chamber members.
Popular Science’s annual “Best of What’s New” showcases innovation in 12 categories, including home technology, green tech, aviation and space, engineering and personal [...]

8th Continent and Space 2.0 in The Denver Post

“In medicine, optics, materials, energy and packaging, space technology touches ordinary people every day. Thousands more ideas wait to be commercialized.”
8th Continent Director Burke Fort makes the argument, on the front page of the Sunday Denver Post Perspective section, that Colorado’s economy benefits from 8C’s efforts on behalf of space technology businesses in metro Denver.
At [...]

Helping Photovoltaic Arrays Work Anywhere

The News: Two California companies, one big (National Semiconductor), one small (Enphase Energy), launched products last year that improve the reliability and efficiency of terrestrial photovoltaic solar arrays by as much as 50 percent – great news for anyone contemplating a five-figure investment in solar panels.

The Space 2.0 connection: Photovoltaic cells – which convert solar [...]