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Category Archives: Lunar
Lunar Lander Challenge 2009
Armadillo finally won L2 already. Masten and Unreasonable are still flying for second place I think (I’m not 100% clear on the rules) today! Spacetransportnews is the place to watch all this. (Or it has the links collected.) It’s historical … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Homebuilt, industry, Lunar, Motivation, RLV:s, Suborbital
Tagged Armadillo, lunar lander challenge, Masten, rocket, Unreasonable
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Good News Everyone
From Hobbyspace, highlighted by Transterrestrial Musings: The program of record (i.e. Ares I/V/Orion/Altair), which exceeds the expected budget substantially, will no longer be in the options table but kept separately just as a reference. Yes! The historic words have been … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Lunar, Motivation, NASA
Tagged ares, Augustine, Death of Ares, NASA
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Reality and Future
Jeff Greason is a rational person who simply gets it. It is mind boggling how completely opposite from someone like Mike Griffin he is. See Jeff’s presentation with the Augustine Panel. Paraphrasing, “we could go to Mars with Ares V … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ESA, Global, industry, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft
Tagged Augustine, Depot, HSF, Jeff Greason, NASA
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Lunar Bases Must Be Buried
Concept art of lunar bases tends to show spherical or cylindrical structures, but they suffer from one problem: radiation. (Both of the gamma / particle and heat kinds). The lunar environment has lots of solar and cosmic radiation. Nights also … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Colonization, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, Science Links, Spacecraft
Tagged excavation, lunar base, NASA, regolith, whiskers
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FLEX – Flexible Exploration Architecture
I wrote this architecture proposal, FLEX, a few years ago. It analyzes NASA’s approach that the ESAS study picked and notices how most of the mass in a lunar exploration stack in LEO is actually liquid oxygen. By using a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Depot, industry, ISRU, Lunar, Models, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft
Tagged Architecture, Ares V, ESAS, exploration, FLEX, Griffin, liquid oxygen, NASA, propellant depot, VSE
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Chinese Mini Space Station
From Slashdot via Hobbyspace. There’s some confusion regarding Shenzou 7 (the upcoming mission), 8, 9 and 10 forming a space station by snapping together in orbit. The orbital module of Shenzou can stay behind on orbit just fine, it can … Continue reading
Conceptual Design at NASA
The Constellation program has been going on for about 3 years. Kicking off with the ESAS study of a few months, it still hasn’t settled very much about the architecture. Even the number of solid segments and liquid engines on … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Depot, engines, Lunar, Models, NASA, Spacecraft
Tagged ares, Conceptual Design, Constellation, ESAS, LSAM, Lunar architecture, NASA, orion
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Ares V is in a Bit of a Trouble
David Harris finally wrote the article on NSF that was a long time coming. Ares V might very well move to 5.5 segment SRB:s. There goes the commonality with Ares I. Mike Griffin, Scott Horowitz, Doug Stanley and the others … Continue reading