Doug Stanley, the notorious ESAS leader has said some strange things (this is his option three, one being Ares I and two Ares V):
Eliminating Ares 1 and 5 and all shuttle infrastructure could save NASA future costs that could eventually be applied towards exploration by significantly reducing the workforce and fixed infrastructure costs. This [...]
Archive for the ‘RLV:s’ Category
Doug Stanley Backs Depots
Posted in Architecture, Lunar, NASA, RLV:s, tagged Depot, Doug Stanley, EELV, NASA on Tuesday 2009.12.08 | Leave a Comment »
Be Careful When Starting Large Projects
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Transportation, airplane, industry, tagged Orlyonok, WIG on Monday 2009.12.07 | Leave a Comment »
Photos of a certain large Soviet ground effect vehicle.
Minus 2D Boom Rendezvous
Posted in Architecture, Depot, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged ATV, Boom, Capture, Centaur, HTV, Rendezvous, RLV on Thursday 2009.12.03 | 2 Comments »
I always had a different idea compared to the one Jon and Kirk posted, (Kirk Sorensen is now a contributor at Jon Goff’s place, I’m afraid having such top men in the same place might cause a awesomity criticality event). I assume this idea is probably found in some old NASA report from the sixties [...]
Waiting for the Start Signal
Posted in Humor, RLV:s, industry, tagged Arianespace, china, Newspace, Russia, ULA on Tuesday 2009.12.01 | Leave a Comment »
Hovering Vehicle Tilt Control, Part Zero
Posted in Homebuilt, Models, Motivation, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Suborbital, tagged VTVL, Hovering, Tilt, Feedback, PD, PID, Valve, Digital Valve on Wednesday 2009.11.25 | Leave a Comment »
Someone was asking on ARocket about where to start with building a differentially throttled hovering vehicle. Lots of advice were given by various people. I’ll show some stuff I quickly sketched back in 2007 with Simulink. It’s such an easy to use and awesome software (especially compared to a recent short battling with LabView), that [...]
Jeff Greason
Posted in Architecture, Colonization, Depot, ESA, JAXA, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged NASA, Augustine, Depot, Greason on Thursday 2009.11.05 | Leave a Comment »
The Man. On Space Review. [EDIT: About a month ago, but I only just read it.] This is just excellent. So many things I agree with, that go against the stupid myths of spaceflight and space policy. If you read one space policy interview this year, this should be it!
“NASA is an organization that is [...]
The Sandman
Posted in RLV:s, Transportation, engines, industry, tagged Armadillo, hop, RLV, Suborbital on Tuesday 2009.11.03 | Leave a Comment »
Xombie NOW
Posted in Homebuilt, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, tagged LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Wednesday 2009.10.07 | Leave a Comment »
Live stream just went up at http://qik.com/video/312581
they should be flying at 45 past whatever hour it is now in your time zone. Now on the pad loading propellants and helium.
EDIT:
And they did it! Congratulations! Also great accuracy.
The live cellphone video of the second flight was shot from quite close: http://qik.com/video/3126566
Masten
Posted in Motivation, RLV:s, engines, tagged 2009, Armadillo, LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Thursday 2009.09.17 | Leave a Comment »
Made huge strides in the last few days. A half-L1 done. They might be able to compete with Armadillo on L2, though I’m somewhat skeptical since they’re only going to assemble the new L2 vehicle soon.
Suddenly looks like there are two viable big VTVL sounding rocket companies!
