It seems the folks at Lockheed Martin are doing 1/5th scale tests on a new launch vehicle. The goal is to get to orbit faster and cheaper thanks to an automated reusable spacecraft run by its own computers and just a handful of people for a launch crew.
As is usual in aerospace research, the inaugural [...]
Archive for April, 2008
On Sunday, the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society held it’s Annual meeting and elected Directors and Officers for the 2008/2009 year.
Directors:
The following people were elected as Directors of the Society (in no particular order):
Julie Porter
Stu Cobb
Dave Weinshenker
Michael Wallis
Gerald Nordley
The Directors will confer to select a Chairman from among themselves.
Officers:
The club Officers for the coming year are:
President: [...]
CosmicLog has an article up about the Rocket Racing League, that mentions (among other things) that Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace will be supplying engines for the RRL, possibly as early as their first demo flights Aug. 1st and 2nd at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
One kerosene-fueled Rocket Racer has been under development at [...]
Armadillo did a cool test to see what happens to an engine if they let the tanks run all the way to dry.
No explosion but definitely a destructive test.
While trolling through the old E.R.P.S. 2002 Data CD info, I came across this drawing of the K.I.S.S. engine that was done in Aug 2001. The comment block indicates it was done by “C. Frank”, who I vaguely remember being in E.R.P.S. only long enough to do this one drawing. The original PDF document was [...]