That balloon thing is still taking money from the hopeful....
Civilian Space Travel
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Something I have been thinking about.
I have heard of space elevators and statites and such---but has anyone thought about having two of them intersect?
Imagine two large sail statites whose lines cross in the form of an "X"...
The simple act of having the two sails tack towards or away from each other means the point of intersection can raise or lower.
If a windlass/pully system rides that intersection and has its own tether----might an object be pulled to space using nothing but Archimedean type principles?
I don't know that this can work on other---but Venus with stronger sunlight---or an object with lower gravity might use such a---we'll call it a SUNLIFTER.
No powered elevator car needed.
Other oddball ideas
https://www.wired.com/story/its-not-sci-fi-nasa-is-funding-these-mind-blowing-projects/
I have heard of space elevators and statites and such---but has anyone thought about having two of them intersect?
Imagine two large sail statites whose lines cross in the form of an "X"...
The simple act of having the two sails tack towards or away from each other means the point of intersection can raise or lower.
If a windlass/pully system rides that intersection and has its own tether----might an object be pulled to space using nothing but Archimedean type principles?
I don't know that this can work on other---but Venus with stronger sunlight---or an object with lower gravity might use such a---we'll call it a SUNLIFTER.
No powered elevator car needed.
Other oddball ideas
https://www.wired.com/story/its-not-sci-fi-nasa-is-funding-these-mind-blowing-projects/
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The Journal of Spacecraft & Rockets turns 60:
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35640
Solar sails
The latest player may give new life to the old plug-nozzle craft…I hope:
https://www.stokespace.com/rocket/
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53164.msg2442151;topicseen#new
Fuel as structure?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52422.140
Japan
https://twitter.com/HTVX_JAXA/status/1606212927786303488?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1606212927786303488|twgr^3d70bf4d2866d57c179c57ce3aa86433e708171e|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38837.0
Lastly—this material will be a boon for impactors..like what holed Soyuz recently:
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-team-protein-based-material-supersonic-impacts.amp
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35640
Solar sails
The latest player may give new life to the old plug-nozzle craft…I hope:
https://www.stokespace.com/rocket/
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53164.msg2442151;topicseen#new
Fuel as structure?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52422.140
Japan
https://twitter.com/HTVX_JAXA/status/1606212927786303488?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1606212927786303488|twgr^3d70bf4d2866d57c179c57ce3aa86433e708171e|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38837.0
Lastly—this material will be a boon for impactors..like what holed Soyuz recently:
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-team-protein-based-material-supersonic-impacts.amp
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https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4544/1
Virgin Galactic will start test flights.. again again, this time they think they'll need three before regular passenger flights. No timeline when the first one goes up, but they're giving more info than Blue Origin gave out last week about their own return to flight .
Virgin Galactic will start test flights.. again again, this time they think they'll need three before regular passenger flights. No timeline when the first one goes up, but they're giving more info than Blue Origin gave out last week about their own return to flight .
Didn't the last Virgin test fail in a big way?
not in a big way. I would say the last Blue Origin flight failed in a big way.
The best of times:
https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/1644028606908334081?s=20
No need for fancy 3D printers!
Terran R coming faster…expendable second stage.
https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/1644028606908334081?s=20
No need for fancy 3D printers!
Terran R coming faster…expendable second stage.
Europe looking at an HLLV
https://commercialisation.esa.int/2023/05/protein-the-new-european-heavy-lift-launcher-study/
Maybe keep near docks…slide out a shipyard…slide back.
Mystery craft
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mystery-rocket-ship.13747/
I really like that concept
https://commercialisation.esa.int/2023/05/protein-the-new-european-heavy-lift-launcher-study/
Maybe keep near docks…slide out a shipyard…slide back.
Mystery craft
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mystery-rocket-ship.13747/
I really like that concept
Hermes mockup
what did that have to do with civilian space travel?
Neutron re-design
Music of the spheres
https://www.space.com/aeolus-wind-satellite-music-sonification-video
Music of the spheres
https://www.space.com/aeolus-wind-satellite-music-sonification-video
how would you design a rocket that somehow wasn't phallic shaped?
You can't I guess. Just those wings near the top added to that shape..
