Many forecasters, though, think that most of the near-term growth in space launches will come from another source: space tourism.
"Sun is doing more and more with being a provider of open source in this enterprise infrastructure space, " says Raven Zachary, an open-source analyst at 451 Group.
But a Johnson Space Center source who asked not to be identified said there's a sufficient amount of lunar material on which scientific analysis has been completed to satisfy the requirement the transfer would not compromise such studies.
And there is no clear source of new talent entering the space.
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The Kepler space telescope has been the source of most of the known candidate exoplanets.
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It was also interesting to note a growing wave of amateur space enthusiasts who are creating open source satellite and guidance plans and software and even making their own back-yard rockets!
But rather than begin an expensive redesign and replacement program, an unnamed space official is said by the source to have altered the test conditions to make it look as though the engines would perform in the conditions expected.
Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.
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Now, the lab is considered a host space for experiments with their own funding source.
The eclectic interior illustrates the collaborative effort between Mason and her creative supporters, who headed to local salvage yards to source the wood and tin used to build the space.
This space is a cooperative battleground between the commercial open source world of Hadoop and the enterprise vendors such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, HP Vertica, IBM Neteeza, and many others.
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At least according to a source quoted by National Geographic, namely the International Institute of Space Law, that treaty does indeed apply to private citizens as well as the countries they live in.
One source was kinescopes found in film vaults at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that had not been seen for 36 years, NASA said.
Some staff will stay in the old offices while others will move to the new space, though they will by no means fill it, the source added.
Houzz, a design and home remodeling site that allows users to create image-driven idea books and source contractors, has arguably become the largest player in the digital home design space, tallying up 10 million monthly users in the final months of 2012.
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There are a surprising number of companies and organizations currently invested in the space, be it through pre-fabricated models, kits or open-source, downloadable plans.
It includes the Silicon Optix Reon chip for converting your old library of DVDs into 1080p -- or any other resolution supported with the HDMI 1.3a connector -- and also supports the Deep Color space offered by the new HDMI specification, for improved color reproduction with compatible source material.
Competitors in this space include larger aerospace companies and suppliers at one end and small hobbyists and open source options on the other end, Downey says.
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If a source has low power density, then it will likely require too much real estate, material or space to provide the power that we demand at prices we can afford or in the vast quantities that the world needs.
On February 26, Babycastles, along with open-source software developer Ivan Safrin, is turning the roof of the Planetarium into a live video game, called Space Cruiser.
And most exciting to the young space geek, such a reactor could power a spaceship to a distant planet and then be the power source for a human base at the destination, he said.
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