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Archive for July, 2008
Conceptual Design at NASA
Posted in Architecture, Depot, Lunar, Models, NASA, Spacecraft, engines, tagged ares, Conceptual Design, Constellation, ESAS, LSAM, Lunar architecture, NASA, orion on Monday 2008.07.14 | 3 Comments »
The Constellation program has been going on for about 3 years. Kicking off with the ESAS study of a few months, it still hasn’t settled very much about the architecture. Even the number of solid segments and liquid engines on the Ares I and V launchers are uncertain – issues which mean a lot for [...]
Pictures of Chinese Booster Debris
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday 2008.07.07 | Leave a Comment »
At Xinhuanet.
Some material from launches falls into populated areas (which have been evacuated). Interesting that nowadays they release some pictures.
You even get a peek at the shallow orthogrid construction there.
The Chinese are developing bigger kerosene rockets and moving the launches to Hainan island in the South China Sea (they wouldn’t be road transportable anyway) so [...]
