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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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