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September 30, 2017 |
brian wang |
A couple of days ago Elon Musk announced that Spacex will be putting all of its development into a 150 ton payload fully reusable rocket. This will be ready around 2020-2022. Bigelow BA 2100, or Olympus, is a conceptual design …
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September 29, 2017 |
brian wang |
Elon Musk wants to use this one ship that replaces Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon. * They tested the carbon fiber cryo fuel tank to failure * they have had 42 main engine tests of the Raptor engine * …
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July 25, 2017 |
brian wang |
Laboratory analyses of lunar samples provide a direct means to identify indigenous volatiles and have been used to argue for the presence of Earth-like water content in the lunar interior. Some volatile elements, however, have been interpreted as evidence for …
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July 20, 2017 |
brian wang |
Elon Musk said “To really get the public real fired up, I think we’ve got to have a base on the moon.” “Having some permanent presence on another heavenly body, which would be the kind of moon base, and then …
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July 18, 2017 |
brian wang |
1. Damien Turchi is a graduate of Drexel University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, founder and former president of the Icarus Interstellar Drexel University Student Chapter and lead coordinator of the first Interstellar Hackathon at Starship Congress 2015 at Drexel …
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July 18, 2017 |
brian wang |
An analysis by John Bucknell (x-Spacex senior engineer) describes an 11 meter diameter robotic vehicle with a 6,000-megawatt nuclear thermal rocket in a NTTR arrangement. The rocket would be single stage to orbit and would be immediately be able to …
