The Space Fellowship is an international news and information network dedicated to the development of the
space industry
Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into outer space (Earth's orbit or beyond), delivering them to those regions, and related services. Owing to the prominence of satellite-related activiti ...
.
The organisation works to report and communicate space news and information to its valued community. Offering a unique and fresh approach, the International Space Fellowship works alongside leading
space organisations with the goal of bringing space to the general public. Its online news service provides visitors with the latest news and updates from both inside and outside the space community.
[Introduction to the International Space Fellowship]
. Retrieved on December 24, 2009.
History
In the early days the Space Fellowship was the Official
X PRIZE Foundation
XPRIZE Foundation is a non-profit organization that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development. The XPRIZE mission is to bring about "radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity" through incentiv ...
web forum and a separate X PRIZE blog on
Google
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's
blogspot
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 that enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be acc ...
. On 12 July 2004 the X PRIZE Foundation web forum and the X PRIZE blog spot joined to form the X PRIZE News. On 18 October 2005 the X PRIZE News was renamed to the International Space Fellowship.
Members
Aerospace companies / Teams and prizes having their official forums listed on the Space Fellowship are:
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Armadillo Aerospace
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JP Aerospace
JP Aerospace is an American company that aims to achieve affordable access to space. Their main activities include high-atmospheric lighter-than-air flights carrying cameras or miniature experiments called PongSats and minicubes. They are also en ...
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Micro-Space
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Masten Space Systems
Masten Space Systems was an aerospace manufacturer startup company in Mojave, California (formerly in Santa Clara, California) that was developing a line of vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets, initially for uncrewed research s ...
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Interorbital Systems
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Microlaunchers
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Cambridge University Spaceflight
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Epsilon vee
* Team Prometheus
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N-Prize
See also
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Space advocacy
Space advocacy is supporting or advocating human activity in outer space. The advocated purposes range from orbital flight, space exploration, commercialization of space and space settlement, to outright space colonization.
There are many di ...
References
External links
*{{Official, https://web.archive.org/web/20190626120051/http://www.spacefellowship.com/ (archived in June 2019; spacefellowship.com now offline with message: "You can visit https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ for recent Space News")
Private spaceflight
Commercial spaceflight
Space access
Space colonization
Space organizations
Space advocacy organizations
Space tourism
British news websites
Organizations established in 2003