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Best Fuel for use with nitrous oxide by [email protected]
Since the success of SS1, there has been greater interest in rockets using N2O as an oxidizer. The pluses of N2O seem to be: 1) Availability - You can buy a...
June 5th 06 06:21 PM
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best kind of motor to achieve 100K feet by charles[_2_]
My college rocketry club is trying to build a rocket that has to reach an altitude of 100K ft... and I was wondering what kind of engine would be better?...
November 24th 09 03:40 PM
by Ken S. Tucker Go to last post
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Best mass ratio to orbit? by Monte Davis
Is there a source online or elsewhere that ranks past and current boosters (and STS, Pegasus, other alternatives) in order of mass ratio? Ideally, gross pad...
October 14th 04 08:20 PM
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Best material for space tethers by Andrew Nowicki
Some plastic tethers are very strong but they may be vulnerable to space radiation and thermal fatigue. Perhaps the best material for the space tethers is a...
August 7th 04 09:17 AM
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Best Tech Heat Shield by [email protected]
The Space Shuttle heat shield has changed over time. Basically they have replaced tiles with things requiring less maintence on the less critical (cooler)...
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April 10th 05 03:06 PM
by Craig Fink Go to last post
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Bieliptic Transfer Orbits by Charles Talleyrand
Can someone explain what a bieliptic transfer orbit is more efficient than a Hoffman transfer orbit when the ratio of initial to final orbits is large and...
August 26th 04 03:25 AM
by Erik Max Francis Go to last post
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Bielliptic Transfer by Reza
Hello, Assume there is no plane change. Simply it is required to put a satellite from its LEO orbit with inclination angle of zero into the final GEO orbit...
August 10th 04 11:31 PM
by John Schilling Go to last post
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Black-hole powered thruster? by Mike
The scientist who recently announced that they may have created an extremely short-lived black hole in the lab got me thinking; is the following a plausible...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
April 12th 05 01:39 AM
by snidely Go to last post
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Blackstar 2-Stage-to-Orbit by manofsanATyahoo.com
Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/030606p1.xml Hmm, I've never...
March 25th 06 10:52 AM
by Malcolm Street Go to last post
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Blast at desert spaceport kills 2, injures 4 by Jim Logajan
Unfortunate news: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/26/spaceport.blast/index.html
July 27th 07 03:42 AM
by Jim Logajan Go to last post
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Blue Origins BE-3 Engine by rocketman
....is being tested by NASA. Does anyone know any details of the engine, like fuel, oxidizer, expected thrust?
March 23rd 12 03:34 PM
by rocketman Go to last post
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Boeing-Led Team to Study Nuclear-Powered Space Systems by Ron Baalke
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2003/q3/nr_030729b.html Boeing-Led Team to Study Nuclear-Powered Space Systems Boeing Company News Release July 29,...
July 31st 03 06:49 AM
by Matt Jessick Go to last post
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Boloworlds by Jim McCauley
Living in deep space presents any number of problems, but one of the more serious ones is the lack of gravity on small bodies like asteroids and comet cores. ...
July 30th 03 09:03 AM
by Wim Dekker Go to last post
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booster propeller by meiza
One of the limiting things in Earth to orbit rockets is first stage initial thrust. The rocket engine of the first stage has to carry all the weight of the...
December 22nd 05 09:21 AM
by delt0r Go to last post
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Brain Signals From The Paralyzed or Injured Captured By Computer by Ron Baalke
http://web.sfn.org/content/AboutSFN1/NewsReleases/am2003_neural.html For immediate release. Society for Neuroscience News Release For more information,...
November 10th 03 06:20 PM
by Ron Baalke Go to last post
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Brute force re-entry by Lizerd
Early on in the space program, the space capsule used brute force re-entry. IE: it slammed into the upper atmosphere at high speed to slow down for return. The...
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September 13th 04 09:37 PM
by Allen Meece Go to last post
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Bubble Drive... by TomRC
Now that bubble fusion appears to be panning out, as least as a neutron source, can anyone design a "bubble drive" to take direct advantage of it - beyond the...
March 21st 04 08:01 PM
by Abrigon Gusiq Go to last post
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Building the better mousetr-...er, engine by Mike Miller
Henry Spencer wrote: "Current engines are (in my opinion) *nowhere* *near* fundamental limits on thrust/weight, even without magic materials like nanotube...
November 8th 03 11:25 AM
by johnhare Go to last post
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Bussard ICF EXL engines by George
Does anyone know how feasible Bussard's Inertial Confinement Fusion EXL engine is? It is not laser ICF but electrostatic. I read an old article about using one...
February 8th 04 07:44 PM
by Zoltan Szakaly Go to last post
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Butterfly strapped to a bullet by Cameron Dorrough
Story Musgraves' description of the Shuttle at the recent IICA2005 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week... Story gave two slide-shows from his time...
August 9th 05 05:51 AM
by Jorge R. Frank Go to last post
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