Kristian von Bengston of Copenhagen Suborbitals posts his hardware design sketchbooks, which have a nice esthetic quality to them in addition to their technical interest: Sketch Books by Kristian von Bengtson.
Category Archives: Rockets
NASA fires F-1 engine gas generator
As part of the SLS archeology project, a group of NASA engineers have refurbished a gas-generator , essentially a separate rocket engine used to drive pumps for the main engine, used for the famous Saturn F-1 engines and fired it several times.
- That sound in Huntsville today? It was NASA test-firing a piece of rocket history (video) – Huntsville Times
- Saturn V “moon rocket” engine firing again after 40 years, sort of: NASA pulls giant engine parts from museums, remakes ’em, and lights ’em up – Ars Technica
- World’s Most Powerful Engine Blazes Path for Space Launch System Advanced Propulsion – NASA
- NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator: Testing Will Aid NASA’s Space Launch System Advanced Development – NASA – Jan.15.13
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Engineers in the F-1 gas generator project take on the 1960s NASA look.
The Space Shuttle’s record + A 48 passenger space vehicle
A defense of the Space Shuttle: The Remarkable Record of the Space Shuttle – CitizensInSpace.
The Shuttle certainly demonstrated lots of important capabilities and applications. Unfortunately, it was too expensive to do any of them operationally. We will have to wait for fully reusable space transports for that.
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Here’s an unusual concept for a big suborbital space vehicle: SHIPinSPACE – 48 Passenger Suborbital Reusable Blasting Survival Vehicle – Investor presentation (pptx)/a>.
Wayne Hale and Columbia: “The moment of truth”
In the latest entry in his series on the Columbia disaster, former Space Shuttle flight directory and program manager Wayne Hale writes about the actual day of the accident: After Ten Years: The Moment of Truth – Wayne Hale’s Blog.
See also the links to two of his previous posts.
Copenhagen Suborbitals: Capsule model tests in hi-res slow motion
Copenhagen Suborbitals posted this video of tests of a model capsule taken with their new high speed camera:
Update:Kristian von Bengtson has also posted a report on development of their Tycho capsule: Public DIY Space Capsule Development Report – Wired Science/Wired.com