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Tag Archives: Conceptual Design
Long Endurance UAV Design
Karoliina has some thoughts on plane design, looking at High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAV:s as inspiration for high L/D craft, to ultimately cruise at fast speed with little power. I disagree somewhat, and I’m sketching out why, below. Probably … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Models, Motivation, Navelgazing, Science Links, Transportation
Tagged Aircraft, Conceptual Design, cruise, HALE, Loiter, UAV
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SpaceX's Third Attempt
The first stage worked flawlessly but the staging malfunctioned. I wasn’t watching, but went to bed at 4 am local time after waiting through some launch delays, thinking that it’d take forever anyway, and of course the launch was right … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Models, RLV:s
Tagged Conceptual Design, Falcon 1, Falcon 9, launch failure, rocket design, SpaceX, testing, third launch
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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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