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Hovering Vehicle Tilt Control, Part Zero
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… more →
Gravity Loss
Hovering Vehicle Tilt Control, Part Zero
gravityloss wrote 2 weeks ago: Someone was asking on ARocket about where to start with building a differentially throttled hovering … more →
The Sandman
gravityloss wrote 1 month ago: Armadillo flying to 600+ meters with a "mod". I say, it looks like the East German Sandman … more →
Lunar Lander Challenge 2009
gravityloss wrote 2 months ago: Armadillo finally won L2 already. Masten and Unreasonable are still flying for second place I think … more →
Airline vs Spaceline Safety
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gravityloss wrote 3 months ago: 62 mile club has a writeup of a beta “customer qualification program” for XCOR’s L … more →
Hydrocarbon Scramjet Already Flown
gravityloss wrote 3 months ago: By ATK in 2005. Shows how little I know. EDIT: Spaceref had the details, Mach 5.5. (Scramjets are st … more →
Augustine Panel First Hearing
gravityloss wrote 5 months ago: Ongoing. Norm Augustine You can stream NASA TV with VLC, just paste this link into it: http://www.na … more →
What NASA Should Do
gravityloss wrote 7 months ago: And partly what this blog is about (I realized in the middle that I’m typing like in a slide s … more →
A Secret Finnish Rocketry Project - or Two!
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gravityloss wrote 8 months ago: You read it first here! In the sixties, with the cold war at its tightest and the threat of Soviet U … more →
Optimum Rocket Cruise
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gravityloss wrote 8 months ago: With some caveats. Let’s assume a rocket is launched, and accelerates to constant speed v_c. T … more →
Skylon
gravityloss wrote 9 months ago: Nice video explanation of the SABRE engine by Richard Varvill. In a sense, it boils down to the prob … more →
road trip to outta space!
fabiangomez wrote 11 months ago: Virgin Galactic Tickets cost $200,000 and deposits $100,000 to $175,000. Later they drop down to $20 … more →
Armadillo Aerospace Fishbowl Spaceship Set for a 2010 Launch
t722 wrote 1 year ago: Believe it or not, there’s a company in New Mexico that has serious plans on the table to shoo … more →
Suborbital is Next to Useless for Point to Point Travel
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gravityloss wrote 1 year ago: Spacetransportnews has a link to another in the long list of nontechnical space dreams. Earth’ … more →
Congratulations to Paul Breed
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gravityloss wrote 1 year ago: Unreasonable Rocket … more →
Fed Up
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gravityloss wrote 1 year ago: I’m quite that just right now. It will pass. Perhaps. There’s been some discussion in va … more →
XCOR Lynx
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gravityloss wrote 1 year ago: BEGIN EDIT Oh well, there actually is more info about the vehicle outside XCOR’s press release … more →
European Non-Dinosaur Space Tourism
gravityloss wrote 1 year ago: A Swiss-German undertaking. (Page in German but has pictures even if you don’t understand the … more →
Blue Origin test - nice show, but will this go to space?
pkocel wrote 2 years ago: Following all the buzz surrounding Jeff Bezo’s announcement of a successful flight test of Blu … more →
Spanish lottery vendor to try his luck in space
pkocel wrote 2 years ago: As a testament of the growing popularity of space tourism, Spain’s lottery “king” … more →
