Cozy Dark emerging technology began work in 2010 as a skunkworks-style engineering firm and is registered with CCR and NSPIRES.
Our early engineering & design efforts have focused on orbital debris solutions and electrodynamic tether technology.
Zach Urbina founded Cozy Dark with the cooperation of technical, research, and academic colleagues in the Southern California AeroAstro community.
We also have a growing library of space science talks featuring Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, astrophysicist Sean Carroll and more.
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SpaceX’s Dragon being pulled to the Space Station after grappling. 25 May 2012 will stand as a legendary day in the history of commercial spaceflight.
“Next time Dragon sees the sun, it should be doing 17,000 mph over the Atlantic. ~8 hrs to liftoff.” - Elon Musk, SpaceX
Yuri’s Night At The W Celebrates Human Spaceflight, LA Style |
On April 12th, 1961, pilot Yuri Gagarin made two orbits around the Earth in a tiny capsule, welcoming boldly a new domain for human achievement. Last Thursday, at the W Hotel in Hollywood, more than 700 space professionals and enthusiasts got together to celebrate that achievement.
How do space people celebrate, you ask? With a bit of space swag, including freeze-dried astronaut ice cream from Astrorox and cell phone cases from SpaceX, as well as nifty beats from Astro-DJ and plenty of Yuri Gagarin stickers, glow sticks, and cocktails.
Yuri’s Night is truly an international celebration, held every April 12th for more than ten years to commemorate Gagarin’s flight, not for the Soviet-era space program, but in the spirit of cooperation with our entire planet. It’s the ambition of the human species being toasted, not just Russian technical prowess. The first Yuri’s Night gathered in 2001, was organized by Loretta Hidalgo, George Whitesides, and Trish Garner. Past events included gatherings in Stockholm, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and the International Space Station.
Whitesides, now the CEO of Virgin Galactic attended Thursday’s party at the W, as did Bill Nye (yes, the science guy, now executive director of the Planetary Society), author Alex Lightman, as well as many friendly faces from Masten Space Systems, XCOR, SpaceX, and JPL.
SpaceX engineer and SpaceVidCast owner Ben Higginbotham broadcasted the event live from his iPhone (“You’re live to the world,” he announced when I arrived, sticking a camera in my face. “No Swearing.”).
Newly-minted BlackStarr organized the exceptional event, largely via the efforts of founders Jacque Saladino and Simone Syed. BlackStarr is currently promoting more space-themed good times, including the SpaceCraft Technology Expo, coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center in early May. Click here for more details on upcoming BlackStarr events in Los Angeles. - ZU
Looking for work? On Saturday April 21st, look to the desert.. |
I always take a gamble to head up to Mojave for a friend’s monthly mixer party, every third Saturday, and it consistently proves to be worth the drive. This month, in addition to the monthly Plane Crazy event, Scaled Composites, designers and manufacturers of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, will be displaying both aircraft as well as evaluating prospective hires. Might be worth the trip for you too.. - ZU
Suborbital Space Research Conference Launches Monday |
Scientists and engineers are gathering in California’s Silicon Valley next week to discuss the research potential of suborbital spaceflight, and one of them will win a free ride in a space plane just for showing up.
The 2012 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC-2012) will take place from Monday to Wednesday (Feb. 27 to 29) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort in Palo Alto. Just before the meeting begins, one lucky attendee will be chosen at random to receive a free trip to suborbital space aboard XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx vehicle. continue reading
Google looks to build satellite farm in Iowa to receive high speed data |
Google is looking to build an array of 4.5 meter wide satellite dishes in the town of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Company subsidiary Google Fiber — which recently announced plans to lay down fiber optic cable in Kansas City — has filed an FCC Public Notice seeking to build two earth stations in Council Bluffs, which would be used for “analog and digital audio, data, and video services.” Each proposed station would be receive-only, with one covering C-band and the other Ku-band. While a small town on the western edge of Iowa may seem like a strange place for a high-tech satellite farm, Google also currently operates a data center in Council Bluffs that has seen $600 million in investment. continue reading
ALMA Opens Its Eyes |
The most powerful millimeter/submillimeter-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image.
Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes. Thousands of scientists from around the world competed to be the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, farthest, and most hidden secrets of the Cosmos with this new astronomical tool.
“We are living in a historic moment for science and particularly for astronomy, and perhaps also for the evolution of humanity, because we start to use the greatest observatory under construction at the moment,” said Thijs de Graauw, ALMA Director.
via itsfullofstars
