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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Spacecraft’ Category
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 »
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 [...]
JAXA’s HTV
Posted in Architecture, JAXA, Motivation, Spacecraft, tagged HTV, ISS, JAXA on Friday 2009.09.11 | Leave a Comment »
It’s in orbit currently. Status updates on spaceflight now and an NSF forum thread. There’s some technical material on NSF L2 about the HTV, for anyone there.
Hope all goes well. This is also exciting, if everything works, there are soon four space agencies that have docked to a space station – a few years ago [...]
Reality and Future
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ESA, Global, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged Augustine, Depot, HSF, Jeff Greason, NASA on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | 4 Comments »
Jeff Greason is a rational person who simply gets it. It is mind boggling how completely opposite from someone like Mike Griffin he is.
See Jeff’s presentation with the Augustine Panel.
Paraphrasing, “we could go to Mars with Ares V but we shouldn’t – cause we couldn’t stay anyway”. Exactly. That’s the problem with NASA. (or the [...]
Flexible Path for NASA Exploration
Posted in Architecture, Depot, NASA, Spacecraft, tagged Augustine, augustine panel on Saturday 2009.08.01 | Leave a Comment »
Haven’t read it yet, but I wrote about something similar (and not in name only) a few years back.
Augustine Panel Session 1, comment 3
Posted in Architecture, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged Atlas, Augustine, Delta, EELV, Gass, orion, ULA on Wednesday 2009.06.17 | 3 Comments »
It seems ULA finally got out in the public with their opinion on how long and what it would take to launch manned stuff or Orion with their rockets.
It only took four years, laboring under threatening and suppression. What a refreshing happening!
Great work, whoever decided the panel would work openly! Was it Holdren, Augustine, Obama, [...]
