sysRAND Corporation: Translating low-energy industrial processes to space

At its Centennial Airport laboratory near Denver, Colorado, sysRAND Corporation is designing an excavator to support NASA’s Lunar Outpost.
sysRAND is also developing and adapting low-energy industrial processes for manufacturing products on the moon for space use. This research and development company is creating technologies which can be licensed, sold or spun out as new ventures [...]

DigitalGlobe and Microsoft to Launch New Clear30 Program: UltraCam3 Imagery to Collect First-Ever Multicontinental Aerial Imagery From 30-cm

DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), one of 8C’s founding sponsors, has been featured on this blog many times. And, for good reason. This Longmont, Colo.-based global provider of commercial high-resolution world-imagery products and services, has lots of news to tell. The most recent is its announcement last week that it has signed an exclusive agreement with [...]

Congratulations to 8C Founding Sponsor DigitalGlobe

Just 11 days after its launch, DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2’s promise is paying off. The first high-resolution, eight-band, remote-sensing commercial satellite – remarkable in its ability to collect multispectral imagery at 1.8-meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at 0.46 meters – released its first images on Oct. 20 of Love Field Airport near Dallas and the AT&T Center [...]

Swanson & Bratschun: Helping Engineers Understand the Broader Implications of their Inventions and Ideas

Bill Vobach, patent attorney and partner at the law firm of Swanson & Bratschun, wants to make something very clear to all the engineers out there: your entrepreneurial aspirations and innovations are indeed marketetable commodities.
“In my career I have found that engineers working in creating new technology too often think they have not invented anything. [...]

Three Spacecraft Find Water on the Moon

In the last several weeks just about every major media outlet has covered a startling discovery: there is water on the moon. And, LOTS of it! From the Associated Press to ABC World News to Discovery to the Christian Science Monitor – this is big news!
The discovery – found by three orbiting satellites – was [...]

DigitalGlobe Named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by International Firm

Congratulations to DigitalGlobe, 8C founding sponsor and a leading provider of commercial high-resolution, world imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, government and commercial clients! The Longmont, Colo.-based company has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult, a research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite sector.
The honor was presented at [...]

Science and Space Technology Reach “Cool” Status

This is, according to NASA, “the coolest video EVER.” (That’s CNN’s emphasis!) We think so, too!
Check it out: CNN Video
When it comes to science and space technology, the “cool factor” should not be underestimated. It’s images like this – and the technology that NASA and scientists like Tom Wagner who is interviewed for this piece [...]

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 [...]

Space 2.0 in ‘The Space Review’

8th Continent Project director Burke Fort writes about using Space 2.0 companies to revitalize the economy with risk capital in this week’s issue of The Space Review.
Check it out at http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1362/1.
An excerpt:
Here’s the taxonomy. Space 1.0 is the industry we all grew up with: rockets to the Moon and billion-dollar government contracts. In Space 1.5, [...]

Google Earth Outreach tells renewable energy developers where to go

Earth imaging using the Digital Globe satellite network, via Google Earth, shows developers of renewable energy projects where to build, according to a story in Consumer Energy Report.
Google Earth Outreach is a program of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Audubon Society to produce a visual record of sensitive wildlife habitats and other [...]