Parabolic Arc reports that the Falcon HTV-2 will launch from Vandenburg atop a Minotaur Lite rocket. If successful, it will transverse about 4,100 nautical miles of the Pacific in less than 30 ... [Read More]
Tonight, High Power Rocketry points us to a proposed fantasy-scale project that would Build the Enterprise . The term fantasy-scale, borrowed from NAR contest rocketry, implies a flying ... [Read More]
I really don't like reading on a computer. Especially a netbook. Maybe a e-reader designed for this would be better. Anyway, I started looking at "X-15: Extending the Frontiers of ... [Read More]
The first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle roars into the skies above California carrying DARPA's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 on April 22, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class ... [Read More]
DARPA was giving some mission status via Twitter and reports that they lost telemetry after the HTV-2 successfully entered the glide phase about 30 minutes ago. The attached graphic depicts the ... [Read More]
Via the Wired Danger Room :
Darpa is holding a contest to design the military’s next spy mini-drone. So far, the entrants include a flying pogo stick, a sail that lands on mosques, and an ... [Read More]
Space.com reports that the Army's AHW (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon) had a flawless first flight, streaking across the Pacific at "several times the speed of sound." To be considered hypersonic, that ... [Read More]
Mavericks, Paton Group, and Inspirtech to open 5 Space Education Research Center s, ROL - "The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, The Paton Group, and Inspirtech LLC today announce the ... [Read More]
Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Delayed One Week - Parabolic Arc
Graupel alert! - DCist - before this Spring, I had never heard of graupel.
More info in coming out about Planetary Resources in ... [Read More]
Boris Katan's HellBoy, set up to fly on 19 E9's
NASA Johnson Space Center’s Shuttle II (1988) , Wired Science (7/12, Portree)
A Bugatti spaceship from Elysium has crashed into the San ... [Read More]
A DARPA-funded research team has successfully demonstrated the precise, automatic placement of objects using a UAV outfitted with a remote manipulator arm. The UAV is the MLB Company’s V-Bat ... [Read More]
I found both these items vis the Unwanted Blog. First up is an artist's concept of DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program . They have issued an RFI for a hypersonic 'airplane like' vehicle ... [Read More]
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]
Parabolic Arc reports that the Falcon HTV-2 will launch from Vandenburg atop a Minotaur Lite rocket. If successful, it will transverse about 4,100 nautical miles of the Pacific in less than 30 ... [Read More]
