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Question about Centrifugal Gravity by
James W
So a lot of movies, TV shows, illustrations, etc., show spacecraft
generating "gravity" via rotating hull sections. In many cases, this
rotating section spins...
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Nuclear detonation inside the sun by
Iain McClatchie
What would happen if you detonated a nuclear bomb inside the sun?
I realize that getting any bomb to the sun would take an amazing
delta-V, and that surviving...
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Pulse Detonation Engine, first stage or .. by
Abrigon Gusiq
http://www.pr.afrl.af.mil/divisions/prt/pde/index.html
Check it out, and anyone have any ways to use it as part of a Shuttle
replacement
or as part of a...
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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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O'Neill habitat spin axis by
Russell Wallace
I'm designing an O'Neill habitat for use in a game scenario, where I'm
trying to keep the science as plausible as possible. It's going to be
the classic...
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N20/propane as monopropellant by
Malcolm Street
I noticed some discussion of this combination some time back.
Is there any reason that rather than having separate N20 and propane tanks
you can't have the...
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Capsule for new space initiative by
CA Zuke
Hi
There's always been something that I couldn't understand about space
'technology'.
As much as I want to see new things and new technologies employed...
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Recommended TSTO technical papers? by
WvB
What are the best technical papers to read that deal with TSTO launch
vehicle studies? I'd like to survey the best thinking that's been put
into the...
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by WvB
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Why is a LOX/Kero SSTO not rather easy? by
Larry Gales
I am not a particular fan of SSTO, but it appears to me that SSTO has
long been within our grasp.
The best figures that I could get for the Titan II 1st...
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Orbital Reentry shield/landing system? by
Ian Woollard
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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Space radiation and tourism beyond LEO by
Vincent Cate
I got an account on SPENVIS at http://www.spenvis.oma.be/spenvis/
and have generated some radiation shielding data and graphs.
You tell it what orbit apogee...
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Propellant pressurization by
Iain McClatchie
I'm reading "Modern Engineering for Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines".
The section on fuel tank pressurization talks about using helium from
a room-temperature...
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by Greg
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Paper on Turbopump Alternative by
Jim Davis
Since the subject of turbopump alternatives comes up fairly regularly
the following recent (and interesting) paper might be of interest:
Knight, Andrew,...
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Mars Suit Outer Garment Fabric? by
Chris Vancil
Hello Everyone,
I've been think about the requirements for the external garment worn
with a Mars Surface Spacesuit. Of course a TMG for Mars would be
greatly...
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Geosynchronous GPS? by
John Schilling
"Ultimate Buu" writes:
Wouldn't it be prudent for the U.S. to develop a GPS-like system which is
based in a geosynchronous orbit,...
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How big is L5? by
Henry Spencer
In article ,
Alex Terrell wrote:
The Earth Moon L5 (or L4) position is often mentioned...
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