Sunday was the ninetysecond anniversary of Finland as an independent state.
I saw this band back in 1997/8 when they were on one of their first gigs in Helsinki. They played in a small old warehouse, Lepakko, that had been converted to a music hall by squatters years ago. And they were [...]
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Starship (this is nice):
Avanti (this is boring and low quality):
Starship: First flight in february 1986. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67A turboprops 895 kW each, designed by by Burt Rutan and Scaled composites, the maker of planes that fly around the world nonstop, or rocket planes that [...]
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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 [...]
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Note the technically correct Ekranoplan at the beginning. +1 to the makers from Gravityloss.
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To Armadillo, Masten Space Systems, Unreasonable Rocket, The X Prize foundation and all the people in these organization and others! I was watching the webcasts a large portion of the weekend.
A month ago, only one team, Armadillo, had ever done even a lunar lander challenge flight from one pad to another. And now there are [...]
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Watching the armadillo 201 m hop
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2009_10_24/2009_10_24_boosted_hop.wmv
NASA’s Ares-1X
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
and
Masten Space’s Xoie L2 flight
http://twitter.com/NGLLC09
Two of these are elegant controllable reusable vehicles, able to take off fly and land in various weather conditions and corn fields. One is not.
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It seems to be such a marvelous rocket engine. A high thrust to weight, high ISP high tolerance design that is still top of the line after sitting forty years in storage – it will be used for Orbital’s Taurus II as a first stage engine.
I drew a diagram on how the engine works internally.
It’s [...]
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posted by Zafar1 @ pixdaus
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Viking Line’s Mariella passenger and car ferry was drifting without steering capability between 00:30 and 01:00 (24 hour notation) near Utö in the Gulf of Finland on saturday morning 2009-09-19. YLE and HBL have more. There apparently was some spare power on so it was not a total blackout. This made the papers while the [...]
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