NASA’s Project Morpheus project recently began testing their new lander and here is a video of engine tests while on a tether. This ground level hot fire test included a test at 0 feet and at 3 feet. This test […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Project Morpheus team at NASA JSC was out testing their new lander on a tether Thursday. See the postings at Morpheus Lander (MorpheusLander) on Twitter as in these two examples: Morpheus Lander @MorpheusLander Thanks for watching! Not tomorrow, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Copenhagen Suborbitals now has a concept design for their manned suborbital space vehicle, which they call the HEAT-1600/Tycho Deep Space: HEAT 1600 Concept Development – The Manifestation of Dreams and Ambitions (for Download) – Wired Science/Wired.com “The first visualization of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I continue the serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: Updated Forward […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A US Air Force sponsored program has developed a non-toxic alternative propellant to the commonly used, but highly toxic and flammable, monopropellant hydrazine: New research key to revolutionary ‘green’ spacecraft propellant – US Air Force The new fuel, labeled AF-M315E, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space historian David S. F. Portree writes about the North American X-15 and what lessons can be learned from its reusability : The X-15 Rocket Plane: Implications for Reusable Booster Schedule & Cost (1966) – Wired Science/Wired.com.
Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals reports on their wind tunnel tests of the scale model of the Tycho capsule II with the launch escape system attached: Finally – the Astronaut Won’t Die Getting Saved – Wired Science/Wired.com
The Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) posted the video below showing highlights of activities at their Mojave test site on Saturday May, 4th. These activities included: the launch of a high power sugar fueled rocket and the first successful static firing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The NASA JSC Project Morpheus has begun testing its new vertical-take-off and landing vehicle. (The previous vehicle was destroyed in a crash during a test flight in August of 2012): And So We Begin Again – Project Morpheus Blog The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Spacevidcast video proves there once was a rocket flight more nominal than all the rest:
A video of last week’s successful X-51 scramjet test flight: The X-51A soars to new heights – Boeing Update: More about the flight from Michael Belfiore : X-51A Screams to Hypersonic Success: A nine-year development effort has finally paid off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals gives an update on the wind tunnel testing of a model of their Tycho Deep Space II capsule and the modifications they have made to its design: More Winds – More Testing -Wired Science/Wired.com.
The Space Studies Institute, whose mission is “to complete the missing technological links to make possible the productive use of the abundant resources in space”. SSI just announced that it is starting a new project with Prof. Jim Woodward of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been offering a serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday. Virgin Galactic‘s SpaceShipTwo (SS2)vehicle made its first rocket powered test flight. VG has created an education program called Galactic Unite with STEM lesson plans based around the SS2 test flights: Galactic Unite Lesson Plans are now live! – Virgin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Copenhagen Suborbitals posted this video today. It gives a description of the guidance and control system of Copenhagen Suborbitals Sapphire rocket. The latest CS newsletter also included this item about the Sapphire rocket: The entire crew of Copenhagen Suborbitals are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robert Clark on his blog Polymath ponders ideas for Budget Moon flights and Budget Moon flights with a lightweight crew capsule. He also looks at converting an Ariane 6 design into a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle: The Coming SSTO’s: multi-Vulcain Ariane.
I recently began here a serialization of an updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a concise history of the X-15, the first rocketplane to reach space: Suborbital Spaceplane – Greg Kennedy/CitizensInSpace.org
Copenhagen Suborbitals makes progress on the boilerplate test version of their capsule design: Capsule Assembly, Cranes and Azerbaijan – Wired Science/Wired.com
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