{"id":8666,"date":"2014-08-25T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:06:11","slug":"kickstarter-opens-for-lohan-launch-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8666","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter opens for LOHAN launch in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8643\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned earlier<\/a> the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">UK\u2019s Register newspaper&#8217;s <\/span><a style=\"color: #660000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/Wrap\/lohan\/\" target=\"_d\">LOHAN (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator)<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0project. They have now opened the crowd-funding campaign to pay for their launch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SpaceportAmerica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a> in New Mexico:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/vulture2spaceplane\/balloon-launch-of-the-vulture-2-rocket-powered-spa\" target=\"_d\">Balloon launch of the Vulture 2 rocket-powered spaceplane by Special Projects Bureau \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0f2105;\">The world&#8217;s first 3D-printed, rocket-powered aircraft will lift off from Spaceport America, New Mexico, in Autumn 2014<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s their Kickstarter video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/vulture2spaceplane\/balloon-launch-of-the-vulture-2-rocket-powered-spa\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier the\u00a0UK\u2019s Register newspaper&#8217;s LOHAN (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator)\u00a0project. They have now opened the crowd-funding campaign to pay for their launch at Spaceport America in New Mexico:\u00a0Balloon launch of the Vulture 2 rocket-powered spaceplane by Special Projects Bureau \u2014 Kickstarter. The world&#8217;s first 3D-printed, rocket-powered aircraft will lift off from Spaceport America, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kickstarter opens for LOHAN launch in NM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-rocketry","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2fM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8643,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8643","url_meta":{"origin":8666,"position":0},"title":"Latest on the Register&#8217;s LOHAN (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator) adventure","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The UK's Register newspaper has been hosting reports on the\u00a0LOHAN (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator)\u00a0project, which aims to launch a small rocket powered plane\u00a0(named Vulture 2)\u00a0from a high altitude balloon. 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