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 | 6 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 [...]
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ESA’s Architecture for Exploration Study (AES) is overviewed in Lunar Base Quarterly 1/2008 (EDIT: to be clear, the Quarterly was released in January):
Lots of Ariane 5, Angara and Soyuz launches with space docking, a space station in Earth-Lunar L1 and many new crewed and non-crewed craft and capabilities.
They had a red team / blue team [...]
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Posted in Architecture, ISRU, Models, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged analytics, ESAS, heavy lift, Koelle, Lunar architecture, Moon, VSE on Sunday 2008.01.27 | No Comments »
Okay, the topic of course is a pun of the current moon exploration approach chosen by NASA. It has been the subject of endless debate, and rightly so, but the various ideas for that are a subject for other days. Bush’s Vision For Space Exploration (VSE), NASA’s 90 day Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS), the resulting [...]
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I’ve been wondering at this ever since the meme has been circulating. People make a printer that shoots glue, layer upon layer and thus it can print 3d objects.
But saying such 3d printers will replace factories and manufacturing is very clearly wrong. Take a look at almost anything you’re using or wearing right now. It’s [...]
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