I forgot to mention earlier, but Jon Goff has had good stuff lately.
Also, check out a nice picture of Titan 1 gimbals (you can click for a big picture but it’s quite a slow site). I’m pretty sure this is the first stage so there is actually another engine behind the one in the picture. [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Some Links
Posted in Motivation, engines, tagged closeup, gimbal, hardware, ICBM, Titan on Wednesday 2008.06.18 | Leave a Comment »
Fed Up
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, ESA, ISRU, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Suborbital, tagged Armadillo, COTS, ESA, fed up, Future, NASA, RAGA, RLV, SpaceX, XCOR on Wednesday 2008.06.18 | 9 Comments »
I’m quite that just right now. It will pass. Perhaps.
There’s been some discussion in various places about both NASA and potential future launch vehicles. Everything’s just so static in a large sense. Completely hopeless. I’ll throw in the towel for now.
Almost nobody has the required long attention span or patience to make any useful progress [...]
Less Posting for a While
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday 2008.06.17 | 2 Comments »
I seem to have left space stuff a little behind lately, maybe because I’ve also been working with some other projects, some including new social scenes. I’ve been trying to broaden my horizons for the last month or so, getting into places where I’m quite out of my element, just for the heck of it, [...]
Ares V is in a Bit of a Trouble
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Lunar, NASA, tagged Ares V, NASA on Tuesday 2008.06.17 | Leave a Comment »
David Harris finally wrote the article on NSF that was a long time coming. Ares V might very well move to 5.5 segment SRB:s. There goes the commonality with Ares I.
Mike Griffin, Scott Horowitz, Doug Stanley and the others might have picked an architecture with too little margins and too many limits.
In other links, the [...]
