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Cynthia - please have a look ... can we check the OoM?

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101022/full/news.2010.558.html hmm should be the ACT in Nature, no? ;)

Yeeesss :) So the "non-commercial" rockets do not emit soot? And how many "non-commercial" launches per year are there in comparison to the commercial ones? Finally commercial space-flight seems more realisable than ever, and "non-commercial" guys will do everything to prevent situation in which they have to compete on an open market... Coming years should be very interesting...

not sure what to make of this. seems like an odd change of direction "Spaceports will be key to us opening up the final frontier of commercial space travel," said Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander at the announcement of the new sites. Mr Alexander hinted that the plans could lead to Scotland becoming the home of the UK's commercial space ambitions, even as the Scottish government warns that only independence will secure a successful space industry for the country.

Cecil Field becomes the country's eighth licensed commercial spaceport

...and hitting the news in the same day: A Rocket Built from U.S. and European Parts "A new rocket that would combine parts from NASA's canceled Ares I rocket as well as the Ariane 5 , a well-proven European satellite launcher, could provide a low-cost option for taking crew and cargo to the space station. The rocket proposal was announced this week by ATK, an aerospace and defense company that manufactures the solid rocket motors for NASA's space shuttles, and Astrium, the European company that makes the Ariane 5. They say the rocket, called Liberty, would be ready for flight by 2015." "Other commercial companies, including Boeing and Orbital Sciences Corporation, are looking to use low-end versions of the Atlas V to carry the capsules they are building. Liberty could carry any capsule at a cost less than that of the Atlas V, according to ATK." Look! Competition! :)

Private company planning commercial manned trips to moon before end of decade.

Commercial project for wearable solar cells by 2015 ...

Let's see what happens next, and compare it to our discussion.

how much will be left after all the review processes?

one step forward .... how many left to get it into commercial products ... and for space?

Looks like ESA suddenly realised there are some serious commercial spaceflight projects going on... Anyway the effort looks to me a bit optimistic... shouldn't they ask the companies directly rather than counting they'll spot the call on ESA website and will bother to answer it?

According to the company's wikipedia page, the computer costs $ 10 million. Can we then declare Quantum Computing has officially arrived?! quotes from elsewhere in the site: "first commercial quantum computing system on the market"; "our current superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room" Link to the company's scientific publications. Interestingly, this company seems to have been running a BOINC project, AQUA@home, to "predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques". List of papers coming out of it.

Interesting blog maintained by the people from D-Wave, who developed the first commercial quantum computer. The blog presents a python implementation to program the D-Wave and some examples.

a bit too economics oriented but still an interesting approach to start-ups ...

It is a bout a commercial aircraft which encounterd a bird swarm during flight and was forced to go back to the departure point.

nice tools but seem all to be commercial ... alternative to Qwaq?

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