Students of the Cal State Long Beach Aerospace Engineering Department, teamed with Garvey Spacecraft, succeeded this past Saturday in launching a rocket for...

I need help in calculating the gravitational drift at L1, 30,000+ km above lunar near side. I'm curious how much stationkeeping fuel, per period of time, a...

Has much research/design work been done on really large airlock doors? A quick search finds references ranging from real doors around a meter in size to...

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...

I have grown up thinking some day there will be large orbital space stations of the type suggested by von Braun serving as staging points for journeys to the...

Is it feasible to use a metallic heat shield for a Soyuz (or Zarya)-type capsule? Maybe I should ask: what's the peak heating a Soyuz sees in...

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I recently read Gerard O'Neill's "The High Frontier" (the latest version from Apogee Books with the CD-ROM). The text doesn't really go into much detail on...

In article , Trakar writes: Quite bluntly, the concept of a "waystation" simply does not...

Is there a formula or rule-of-thumb for making a rough estimate of the rate of air loss in a space craft for a given size air leak? -...

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM2OU0P4HD_index_0.html SMART-1 ion engine fired successfully European Space Agency 1 October 2003 SMART-1's revolutionary...

Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington October 1, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1753) Joshua Chamot National Science Foundation, Arlington,...

Check out Scaled.com for details about the second flight of Space Ship One and it's successful flight test feathering the flight surfaces for a test of the...

I was thinking about the possibilities of building a water cooled reentry shield. Back in the 50s or 60s there was a test where they reentered a solid sphere...

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Spotted an excellent animated gif of the third stage sep and ignition of the second MER launch on the APOD site a few days ago. It mentions that not only this...

I am very much a fan of O'Neill colonies, but have long believed they would be much easier if they were close to a carbonaceous asteroid rather than the moon. ...

PaulKTM wrote: What does everyone use for satellite tracking software? I personally use STS Plus and Traksat. (MS-DOS versions of both, though there is a...

Apparantly the Russians are testing a reentry parachute and it makes me wonder, is exotic high tech heat-shielding really necessary for reentry? We all know...

Daarpa's new toy? http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/09223top.xml Cheers, Richard