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Rocket Dungeon: Scheduled landings (2012-05-30)
SpaceX's Dragon is slated to splashdown in the Pacific tomorrow at 11:44am EST. NASA TV coverage should start at 10:15. ( Rocketry Blog , 5/30) The X-37B OTV-2 is sceduled to return "during the ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Boeing unveils its new spacesuit (2017-01-26)Astronauts aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will wear these new lightweight spacesuits. Hopefully we will get to see a SpaceX spacesuit soon. Back in May it was announced that SpaceX hired ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Barakmobile (actually, "The Beast") (2009-01-20)Nice ride, Mr. President. The actual specs are top secret but Wired's Autopia gives us some details: GM says the car occupies the "same footprint" as the current presidential ride, but it is a ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Kepler Observatory (2009-03-08)Last week NASA successfully launched the Kepler Observatory on a Boeing Delta II rocket. Resulting in what may be the greatest launch photo of all time. Awesome picture. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: X-37B news (2009-06-03)Space.com reports that the USAF and Boeing plan to launch the X-37B OTV-1 in January 2010 atop an Atlas V EELV. I like the following photo from the drop tests performed back in 2006. [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Air Force space plane shooting for April launch (2009-11-24)In a response to written questions, an Air Force spokesperson said the unmanned spaceship is scheduled for launch April 19 on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The winged X-37B, also ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-51A WaveRider Gets Airborne (2009-12-11)The US Air Force Research Laboratory's X-51A WaveRider scramjet engine demonstrator completed its first captive-carry flight under the wing of its B-52H mothership from Edwards AFB on Dec. 9. The ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Airborne ABM system test (2010-02-12)"For the first time the U.S. military has shot down a ballistic missile with an airbourne laser beam. The experiment, conducted off the California coast, was to demonstrate the future of defence ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Shuttle is waning and Ares is dead (maybe) but... (2010-02-26)Even though the Shuttle is slated to be retired and it looks like the Ares is history before it makes any, some cool new hardware is being prepped at Cape Canaveral: First, SpaceX's Falcon 9 with ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: From X-15 To X-51. Hypersonic Testing Continues At Edwards AFB (2010-03-05)There?s some pretty exciting stuff going on at Edwards Air Force Base as the flight test center team gets ready to conduct an awe-inspiring X-51 first flight. The plan is to air launch the X-51A ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Could Code Name "Riptide" Be The Merger Of The X-37B And The X-51A (2010-04-19)It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where these two technologies need to merge. Just think of the weight and fuel reduction if the booster did not need to carry an oxidizer and could return ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Air-Launch Sortie Vehicle, part 4 (2010-04-19)The Space Review eatures the 4th and final part of Dwayne Day's series on the AFRL's “Space Sortie System.” (See: “Fire in the sky,” part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 , in previous issues of The ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launches on an Atlas V (2010-04-22)Classified spacecraft is in space (don't ask what part, that is classified.) You know, for a secret program, we keep hearing and seeing quite a bit about it! Check out how much the exhaust expands ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Big a$$ (concept) rockets of the day (2010-04-27)Scott Lowther has a hat trick of cool articles for sale: Boeing Advanced Multipurpose Large Launch Vehicle (AMLLV) , "perhaps the most powerful {conventional?} booster ever envisioned… in it’s ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: A Look Inside The Hypersonics Lab At Boeings Phantom Works (2010-05-21)The X-51A will make its first hypersonic flight attempt Tuesday, May 25, from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. If successful, it will be the longest-ever hypersonic flight powered by a supersonic ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: X-51A Waverider flight scheduled ....today (2010-05-25)Clark Lindsey reminds us that the X-51A is scheduled to fly today. It will be dropped from a B-52 at 50k', boosted by a solid rocket to Mach 4.5, and then will accelerate to Mach 6 under scramjet ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Scramjet Powers Historic First Flight of X-51A WaveRider (2010-05-30)PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Source: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's scramjet engine, achieved ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-51A Team Eyes Results Of Scramjet Flight | AVIATION WEEK (2010-06-01)X-51A Team Eyes Results Of Scramjet Flight | AVIATION WEEK [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Boeing B-47B rocket-assisted take off on April 15, 1954 (2010-08-04)This just in: Rocketry is great. ________________________________ Here is something not so great, from the interesting world of Christianity. I did not yet take the time to read this whole thing, ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Boeing To Build Capsule To Fly Tourist To The ISS (2010-09-17)BY JOSHUA FREED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Boeing and a space tourism company announced a deal on Wednesday to sell tickets on rocket rides to the International Space Station. Now Boeing just ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: X-37B landing video (2010-12-03)Congrats to the USAF, Vandenburg, and Boeing on the successful landing of the X37-B OTV-1 . Not much is known about its 225 day mission except that it changed orbits several times. However, we do ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Another X-37B video (2010-12-03)This one shows the FLIR landing video and some of the post-processing. I went ahead and quoted the text included with the video. I found the video link on the ParabolicArc . The U.S. Air ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: How To Move A Secret Space Plane? With A Chevy Truck Of Course! (2010-12-14)Photos by Boeing Last week, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B unmanned space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completing a top-secret 220-day orbital space mission. It ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Giant 'chute (2011-01-15)"The team developing the landing system for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory tested the deployment of an early parachute design in mid-October 2007 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: X-37B clues (2011-03-07)Short Sharp Science discusses some Boeing patents which may provide clues to part of the X-37B's mission - Secret space plane has solar stowaway . The first patent is for a quickly ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Static test of the day (2011-03-16)Check out the high speed/slo-mo footage at about 1:35 in. Description attached to the video: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests of the 52,000-5 ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Modified X-51A Waverider Ready for Next Hypersonic Test (2011-03-20)United States Air Force engineers currently plan to fly the second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as next Tuesday, programme officials said earlier this week. "We are ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: There Are Five Vehicles Competing To Succeed The Space Shuttle (2011-04-23)By Frank Morring, Jr. Washington U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Bono Mars Glider (2011-05-30)"In 1960, Philip Bono, a Space Vehicle Design Specialist with the Boeing Airplane Company Aero-Space Division, envisioned a Mars spacecraft that outwardly resembled the U.S. Defense Department's ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Second X-51A hypersonic flight ends prematurely, As Scramjet Engine Fails To Ignite (2011-06-16)by 95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs 6/15/2011 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A second test of the X-51A Waverider flew Monday in the Point Mugu Naval Air Test Range over the Pacific Ocean, ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: The N.R.L. Is Set To Launch A Miotaur IV Sept. 27, 2011 From Kodiak Launch Complex (2011-08-23)Published: August 22, 2011. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON--The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: X-37B OTV-2 update (2011-10-03)Space.com notes that, as of last week, OTV-2 had been in orbit over 206 days on its way to its full 270 day mission. Although its mission is still top secret, the Air Force will say that it is ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-37B Will Remain In Orbit Longer Then 270 Days (2011-12-01)The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, launched on March 5, 2011, was designed to fly for 270 days. Day 270 came yesterday, but the military branch has decided to prolong its ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Dependent On Russian Soyuz Space Taxi For At Least Five More Years (2011-12-18)(Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Shuttle Humor (2012-03-28)This was on the Shuttle dock on the Boeing 747 that carried the Shuttle. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Bombers, JATOs and JATO-boosted bombers (2012-04-22)Dark Roasted Blend has posted a new series on Heavy Bombers: Fearsome Angels of the Cold War . This post includes four awesome photos of B-47's being boosted by JATOs. There's also a cool ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: ReEntry Breakup Recorder (REBR) (2012-05-04)At the Science and Engineering Festival, there was a booth showing off a program called R.E.B.R. "Casualty expectation for reentering space hardware is computed using reentry-survivability ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-05-19)If you're up (and I won't be), you can watch the Falcon 9 launch on NASA TV . Countdown coverage starts at 3:30AM EST with the launch currently scheduled for 4:55 AM EST. Pucker ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: This isn't your father's satellite launcher (2012-05-22)Clark Lindsey finds more information on Boeing's recently announced small-sat launcher concept - Pictures of Boeing's scramjet 3-stage small-sat launcher . The pictures are actually just concept art ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Another Shuttle Mockup (2012-05-29)Credit: Bill Novak I just learned that the old Rockwell/Boeing Downey facility is now home of Downey Studios , an independent film studio (an has been for a while). The ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Jet crash test footage (2012-06-10)"In 1984, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and the Federal Aviation Administration teamed up in a unique flight experiment called the Controlled Impact Demonstration to test a promising fuel ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Boeing CST-100 (2012-06-26)The CST-100 is Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program entry is represented here in a new NASA CCP video brief. The CST-100 crew capsule is a spacecraft design proposed by Boeing in ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Aerospace Engineering? (2012-07-23)"Aerospace Engineering? I'm considering a major in aerospace engineering. Does anyone have any experience in it, or know anyone who does it?" - A question by Tim Smith, which I answered 7/23/12 ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Stressful Fun: Random College Updates (2012-09-11)If I thought I spread myself too thin last semester... I had no idea what was coming! Junior year in aerospace engineering is famous for requiring super-human abilities. Below I have summarized in a ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-37B Prepares For Return To Orbit (2012-09-27)The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Bloodhound SSC's hybrid motor test was successful (2012-10-03)The Bloodhound SSC team is reporting that, earlier today, they successfully test fired their hybrid rocket motor . Here's a synopsis: At 4 meters (12 feet) long, 45.7 cm (18 inches) in ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-10-26)More from the old news department.... Run For Your Lives! Frankenstorm is Coming! , DCist, Hurricane Sandy (NOAA) Origin of the Apollo-shaped Manned Mars Lander (1966) , ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Vortex Rocket Engine Technology Looks Promising (2013-01-17)The inner surfaces of rocket engines can be subjected to extremely high heat. Temperatures as high as 3227°C (5800°F) can result from the powerful, thrust-generating exothermal reaction ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Boeing X-51A WaveRider photo (2013-06-17)Boeing X-51A WaveRider sets record with successful 4th flight , a photo by The Boeing Company on Flickr. [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Selects Space Florida To Take Over Shuttle Landing Strip (2013-07-01)Cape Canaveral - Nasa has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space shuttle's idled landing site at ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Photos for while the paint is drying... (2014-04-01)I'm taking advantage of the great weather to paint the POS SPEV build. Keeping with the trashy nature of the beast, I laid on a coat of Rustoleum gloss black directly onto the untreated tube. I'll ... [Read More]
Rich's Rockets: Commercial crew pr0n (2015-02-20)Check out the 6000 by 6000 (!!) pixel image from this article on the then-upcoming (it happened today) groundbreaking for the Commercial Crew access tower at Space Launch Complex 41. ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Fourth X-37B Spaceplane To Launch With An Advanced NASA Materials Science Experiment (2015-05-18)The planned May 20 fourth launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with a Boeing/U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane comes as the Air Force is shifting to more military spaceplane ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: X-37b Space Plane Returns (2022-11-16)The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday ... [Read More]
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