Tag Archives: ESAS

NASA's Mess

Posted on Fri, 2009-10-09 by gravityloss

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 →

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FLEX – Flexible Exploration Architecture

Posted on Fri, 2008-11-21 by gravityloss

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 →

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Conceptual Design at NASA

Posted on Mon, 2008-07-14 by gravityloss

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 →

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Analytics On Steroids

Posted on Sun, 2008-01-27 by gravityloss

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 →

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