Archive for August, 2008

General Meeting #330

Attending:

Dave Weinshenker,
Dan Solvin,
Gerald Nordley,
Julie Porter,
and
Stellan Lagerstrom.

Call to order:
Dave W called the meeting to order at 20:05

Falcon 1 is 0 for 3

SpaceX launched their third Falcon 1 rocket from Kwajalein Island over the weekend. Hoping to build on their two previous test flights, they carried customer payloads this time … but a longer thrust decay transient of our new Merlin 1C regeneratively cooled engine (by 1.5 seconds!) seems to have produced a small thrust that was [...]