Los Angeles, March 26, 2008 – A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space for the millions of people who want to buy a ticket.
The company, XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Came across this in a quick search for Alex on the Agena Primary Propulsion System. It’s the July 1964 Lockheed report to NASA. Seems pretty detailed on first glance. The Forward (Page iii) says:
This Propulsion Subsystem Engineering Analysis Report is produced by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and [...]
I came across this post and thought I’d pass it along given earlier E.R.P.S. discussions of a similar approach to the Google X-Prize Lunar Lander Prize. From the article in Science
As a legendary designer of communications satellites, Harold Rosen doesn’t need to spend his ninth decade figuring out how to land a cheap probe that [...]
So there’s a new way to raise donations called ChipIn that allows you to raise money for specific needs, items or events. As a sample, here’s one that’s asking to raise money for purchase of HTP. What items should we set up that people would be interested in funding or seeing funded?
Attending:
Dan S.,
Michael W.,
Gerald N.,
Julie P.,
Dave W.,
Alex M.,
Call to order:
8:05 pm, 13 Mar 2008