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A vision of CATS by
Penguinista
Presuming a reusable spacecraft
- Have to avoid armies of technicians to operate/maintain the
spacecraft. Thus:
- Components must have an appreciable...
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Ablative Panels for reusable Space Capsule by
F Fernandez
Assuming a reusable space casule was being designed today, say as the
CTV for the ISS. In order to make the capsule reusable, the heatshield
would be bolted...
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Ablative Surfaces & Drag Reduction? by
sanman
I was reading this article:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/iop-sds051404.php
We have all read about how ablative materials can help to...
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Accelerometer/INS question by
dave schneider
Nanotech accelerometers are showing up which offer relatively cheap,
mass-producible devices (to the point that laptops may be able to safe
the heads before...
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Accidental Orion? by
Parallax
I recently read somewhere a story about one of the first underground
nuclear tests called Bernallilo in which the vertical shaft was capped
with a massive...
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acoustic and thermic insulation by
laetitia
Hi,
I'm a scientific researcher in a french company.
I'm looking for materials having good acoustic and thermic insulation properties.
What parameters are...
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adpative filtering limitations by
fabrice
Hi all,
I'm simulating a transmission under simulink.
Here are the characterisics.
emitter
QPSK modulation
Factor 2 oversampling
channel
Fir filter case 1
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Aerobraking on the way up by
Alain Fournier[_2_]
A first step towards building a fully reusable rocket would be to have a reusable first stage. You would want to
minimize maintenance cost on that first...
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Aerospikes by
Proponent
Bono's aerospike designs from the 60s feature toroidal comubstion
chambers, whereas recent designs like the X-33's linear aerospike
usually have several small,...
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Aerovator by
Chance
I read about this idea on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerovator. Basically, it is a long
aerodynamic ribbon kept up by 20+ jet engines. Somehow,...
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AHS-2006 Web-site by
Conf. on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
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1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2006)
June 16-...
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Air breathing Engines by
Stephenjkm
Do air breathing engines provide any benefit for vertically launched
spacecraft? I have recently seen work regarding hypersonic aircraft
which purports to have...
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Air Breathing for VTVL by
johnhare
Until recently I have considered air breathing engines on VTVL to
not be worth consideration. Now I believe they *might* be worth
consideration if they can...
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Air breathing re-entry concept by
Zoltan Szakaly
I have been contemplating various reentry options for my imaginary air
breathing SSTO vehicle. If I can solve the problem of going to orbit
by using an air...
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Air Ship To Space? by
ChrisV01
A while ago I saw an idea for an "Airship To Space" on JP Aerospace's website.
How does this work? They mentioned using electric rockets which have very...
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Airbus - reusable space launcher by
Alain Fournier[_3_]
I'm sorry I don't have an English site for this but Airbus is planing on
a space launcher with reusable engines. After separating from the second
stage, the...
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Airbus hypersonic airplane by
Alain Fournier[_3_]
You have probably all heard recently about Airbus filing a patent for a
hypersonic aircraft involving turbojets, a rocket engine and ramjets.
Even if in this...
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Airlock substitute by
Armin
Hi,
I was wondering if we can use plasma shields like "plasma window" or force fields instead of airlocks to let the astronaut get through them without letting...
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Airship to Orbit question by
Chance
I was reading about the airship to orbit idea, and how it is probably
impossible. This got me to thinking, are there any materials like
carbon nanotubes that...
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