Ode To Apollo 11 And The Joy Of Discovery

Ode to Apollo 11 and the joy of discovery

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mrsoldat

9 years ago

Infographic Comparing The SpaceX Falcon 9 With Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Both Rockets Are Reusable,

Infographic comparing the SpaceX Falcon 9 with Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Both rockets are reusable, and both made history as the first rockets to be recovered after flight. New Shepard holds the distinction as the world’s first suborbital rocket to be recovered, and Falcon 9 holds the distinction as the world’s first orbital rocket to be recovered. Infographic via reddit.

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mrsoldat

10 years ago

Кавенна или "юстициарский меч" (кир. ка'вэнэ) - ки'ринский

Кавенна или "юстициарский меч" (кир. ка'вэнэ) - ки'ринский изогнутый полуторный меч ("вэнэ"). В основном используется ки'ринской кор'рэлианской гвардией, а также Юстициарами. Является непременным атрибутом образа ки'ринского Юстициара, за что и получил своё второе название.

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mrsoldat

9 years ago

Three’s Company - JCSAT-14 Falcon 9 arrives at LC-39A.

Eight days after lofting the JCSAT-14 satellite to orbit, Falcon 9 #024 arrived at the Horizontal Integration Facility at LC-39A late Saturday afternoon (May 14).

In the photos above released by SpaceX, the three recovered rocket stages can be seen in the HIF where they have been undergoing disassembly, thorough inspection, and testing. F9-024 - JCSAT-14 - is in the middle, flanked by F9-021 (Orbcomm OG2) on left and F9-023 (CRS-8) on right.

The second picture shows the aft end of each rocket, with Orbcomm on the left, JCSAT-14 center, and CRS-8 on right. It’s interesting to compare the level of disassembly of the prior two recovered stages. Falcon 9′s nine Merlin 1D engines have been entirely removed from F9-023, while the same five engines from F9-021 first seen missing in April are still removed. It is believed that the engines from both Orbcomm and CRS-8 will be tested at the company’s McGregor facility before returning to the cape for reintegration and, in the case of F9-023, reflight.

Also note that both previously recovered rockets are missing the aerodynamic grid fins, which help direct the rocket as it falls through the atmosphere towards a precision landing on the droneship.

Initial inspection of F9-024 - JCSAT-14 - once it arrived in the HIF showed that the stage experienced what Elon Musk called “maximum damage.” Since Falcon 9 delivered JCSAT-14 to Geostationary Transfer orbit, the rocket landed at twice the speed and with eight times the energy of a normal landing.

Musk’s tweet implies that the rocket was damaged as much as possible without actually breaking, and won’t actually be flown again. He goes on to state that it will be used as a benchmark for future GTO-recovered stages, comparing their damages with that of F9-024. This will help determine if they can be reused again.

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mrsoldat

9 years ago

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Revolutionary Space Engine Turns An Airplane Into A Spaceplane

A revolutionary engine that can turn an aircraft into an orbiting spaceplane has won fresh backing from the British Government.

The hybrid engine called Skylon (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) — is currently being developed by Reaction Engines, SEN reports.

Revolutionary Space Engine Turns An Airplane Into A Spaceplane

Until now, spacecraft heading for orbit have had to be launched by conventional rockets because of the amount of fuel needed to be get them into space.

Skylon, powered by SABRE engines, will change the game because it will draw oxygen for fuel from the atmosphere as it flies, meaning it needs to carry less fuel in its tanks.

It means the sleek cigar-shaped craft will be able to take off and land at conventional airports, just like a normal jet airliner. But unlike conventional aircraft engines, SABRE switches in flight to become a rocket engine that can boost Skylon spacecraft to a speed faster than Mach 5, or more than five times the speed of sound.

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Skylon will be able to carry people and cargoes into space where it could dock with the International Space Station and help build new orbiting outposts. But when it returns to land like a normal aircraft, it can be readied for its next mission in just hours. The new technology will slash launch costs.

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As well as launching Skylon, a version of SABRE called Scimitar would be able to power a futuristic airliner LAPCAT to fly from Europe to Australia in a little over four hours.