Kentucky Space

Kentucky Space is a non-profit consortium of private and public universities, companies, and other organizations with the goal of designing and leading innovative space missions within realistic budgets and objectives. The enterprise is supported by the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium and developed out of the programs of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation.

Consortium

Partners
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • Kentucky Virtual Campus

Projects
  • KySat-1, a CubeSat designed by Kentucky Space which defines a standard reusable bus and was intended to be used as part of a program intended to interest and involve school children in science.[1] It was lost during a failure of the Taurus XL rocket during launch on March 4, 2011.[2]
  • Space Express 1, a suborbital solid-fuel rocket payload launched in 2007 from White Sands Missile Range.
  • Balloon-1, a high-altitude balloon payload launched from Bowling Green, Kentucky on July 14, 2008.[3]
  • Space Express 2, an inertial measurement unit payload designed for a Garvey Spacecraft Corporation rocket.
  • KySat-2, a CubeSat re-designed by Kentucky Space to fulfil the original mission of KySat-1.[4][5] It was successfully launched and activated on November 19, 2013 aboard a Minotaur I[6][7]

Asteroid mining

On August 4–6, 2008 a group of space professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and mining engineers gathered in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky to discuss the development of an asteroid resource development business strategy. The discussion ranged from space technology, propulsion, and orbital mechanics to space law, markets, value proposition and financial plans.[8]

See also
  • List of space agencies

References
  1. Gunter, Krebs. "KySat 1". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  2. "Taurus rocket nose shroud dooms another NASA satellite". Spaceflight Now, March 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  3. "KYSAT". Retrieved 2008-10-13.
  4. "KYSAT2". "K2 Tuesdays Blog". n.d. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  5. "KYSAT3". "K2 Tuesdays Blog". n.d. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  6. "KYSAT4". "K2 Tuesdays Blog". 2013-11-20. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  7. "Orbital's Minotaur I successfully lofts multitude of payloads". 2013-11-19. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
  8. "Mining the sky might soon fuel rockets in space". Retrieved 2008-10-04.
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