On the Radar…

eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, has selected three companies as the first class for its space incubator program from a pool of 30 applicants. Members of the inaugural round are: Zybek Advanced Products, a maker of lunar stimulant (synthetic moon rocks) which allows testing of landers and rovers, Net-Centric Design Professionals (NDP), a developer of secure networks for communication between space crafts and earth, and Space Awareness Services, which tracks space debris using commercial telescopes and software to prevent collisions. Zybek and NDP are based in Boulder, Colorado while Space Awareness Service hails from Colorado Springs. Zybek and Space Awareness Services both received $20,000 grants in conjunction with joining the program. Based in Boulder, Colorado, eSpace was founded in January of 2009 as a collaboration between The University of Colorado and SpaceDev Inc. of Louisville to support entrepreneurship and work force development in the space industry.