Archives for the 'rockets' Category
One Less Spaceport in Texas
Published on 2 Mar 2007 at 3:45 pm.
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Building a spaceport isn’t easy, as Brazoria County in Texas has figured out. I saw this story at the Personal Spaceflight blog and decided to comment on it.
It is clear that space is no longer only within the reach of big government space programs. More and more private aerospace businesses are being […]
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Sea Launch Failure Today
Published on 30 Jan 2007 at 5:47 pm.
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I am a strong proponent of private space ventures. This includes the private companies springing up to launch payloads into space. One such company that I’ve watched with interest for several years is Sea Launch. They have an interesting concept. Rather than building a costly launch facility somewhere on land, and […]
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Flying your business card into space
Published on 6 Nov 2006 at 2:37 pm.
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Here’s an interesting little news bit that I saw posted over at Ed’s site. It is about Xenotech Research’s new rockets. These rockets will be small rockets designed for suborbital or low Earth orbit payloads — most likely research payloads. One thing that makes these rockets sort of unique is that instead of launching from the ground, […]
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SMART-1 (Part One)
Published on 31 Aug 2006 at 4:12 pm.
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The vast majority of space missions to the Moon have either been launched by the United States or the Soviet Union. However, in recent years, others have been getting in on the act. On September 27, 2003, the European Space Agency launched SMART-1 to the Moon. While most missions to the Moon took days to […]
James Van Allen: September 7, 1914 - August 9, 2006
Published on 10 Aug 2006 at 12:32 am.
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James Van Allen died yesterday. He was the one whom the Van Allen Radiation Belts were named after. As a further interesting note, I have a letter signed by him from back in 1984. Hmm. I need to see if I can find that letter.
He spent most of his life in […]
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Ares Rockets: More Blogging
Published on 4 Aug 2006 at 5:29 pm.
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Not too long ago, I posted an entry about the new Ares Rockets that NASA is designing. I mentioned that portions of the new rockets are based on Shuttle technology, in particular the external tank. Well, that includes the problematic foam. There was an article in the local paper here today about just that. As […]
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NASA’s new Ares Rockets
Published on 25 Jul 2006 at 1:06 am.
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NASA has released the names of the new rockets being developed for the next generation of launch vehicles to replace the Space Shuttle fleet. Two rockets are being developed. One is to lift the new Crew Excursion Vehicle (CEV), and another is a heavy lift booster. Both are named Ares. This is apropos because Ares […]
