Here, via ARocket. Too good to pass up. It was remarkably different from all the other launchers.
Archive for April, 2009
Black Arrow Documentary
Posted in Architecture, Motivation, RLV:s, tagged Black Arrow, Gamma, Woomera on Wednesday 2009.04.29 | Leave a Comment »
Lunar Bases Must Be Buried
Posted in Architecture, Colonization, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, tagged excavation, lunar base, NASA, regolith, whiskers on Wednesday 2009.04.22 | 4 Comments »
Concept art of lunar bases tends to show spherical or cylindrical structures, but they suffer from one problem: radiation. (Both of the gamma / particle and heat kinds). The lunar environment has lots of solar and cosmic radiation. Nights also last for two weeks, during which a badly insulated thing will freeze.
If you bury your [...]
What NASA Should Do
Posted in Architecture, Depot, ISRU, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Suborbital, industry on Tuesday 2009.04.21 | Leave a Comment »
And partly what this blog is about (I realized in the middle that I’m typing like in a slide show, so I changed it into bullet points, as it’s an overview and not a deep text). I present my vision that should be aimed for:
What should NASA do?
In the near term, NASA should change to [...]
EELV:s again
Posted in Architecture, Depot, Journalism, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, tagged ares, Atlas, Delta, EELV, NASA, Nasaspaceflight, orion on Tuesday 2009.04.21 | Leave a Comment »
This time the Aerospace Corporation deems them suitable for launching Orion, tells a Nasaspaceflight.com article . Via Clark Lindsey.
I’ve gotten bored of all this a few years ago. When Griffin was in power, absolutely no change was considered.
From a quick look at the article, the Orion seems to have slimmed down considerably from the ESAS [...]
Osprey Nest Webcam
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday 2009.04.20 | Leave a Comment »
Here.
Solarnator
Posted in Humor, Uncategorized on Monday 2009.04.20 | 1 Comment »
I really don’t know what to say. It’s a parody, piss take, a statement, a joke, a nice thing, a red herring… (I also don’t think what they say makes much sense but yeah whatever.)
Serious Solutions, No Feelgood
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry, tagged Climate, co2, Finland, nuclear, Pekkarinen, wind power on Tuesday 2009.04.07 | 1 Comment »
Finland is enacting laws that lead to building some more wind power. Like some professionals in the Finnish wind power association, Suomen tuulivoimayhdistys, have told me, perhaps the most important thing about wind power is that you have to be smart about what and where you build.
The wastelands of dead windmills in the California deserts [...]
Prognosis
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Science, idiocracy on Thursday 2009.04.02 | Leave a Comment »
Methane escaping from melting permafrost is one of the identified potential (it is not certain) large and fast feedbacks. It could amplify human induced global warming a lot, and fast. Hot topic blogged about it. (Link via Stoat.) I haven’t read any articles on the subject and claim no expertise on how likely, fast or [...]
