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NASA's Mess
Danny Deger @ Nasaspaceflight.com forum on Ares I selection in ESAS (I don’t know if this is true, I have little knowledge about the matter): The Ares data isn’t just ITAR, it is Sensitive But Unclassified as it should be … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, industry
Tagged ares i, Augustine, contractor, Danny Deger, ESAS, Federal Acquisition Regulations, ITAR, Rationality, SBU
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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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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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Analytics On Steroids
Okay, the topic of course is a pun of the current moon exploration approach chosen by NASA. It has been the subject of endless debate, and rightly so, but the various ideas for that are a subject for other days. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, ISRU, Models, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Uncategorized
Tagged analytics, ESAS, heavy lift, Koelle, Lunar architecture, Moon, VSE
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