Selenian Boondocks

Just saw a fairly cool link to an article in a magazine I had never heard of before, called Business 2.0 (click here). The whole “active magazine” browser is kinda interesting, if not a bit weird. Not much of the content is particularly new to most readers here, but it’s good to see business people [...]

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For a long time in the car world, due to the high setup times inherent in some of their equipment (like the massive multi-ton dies they’d use for panel stamping) and other factors, car manufacturers would use a “batch-and-queue” style manufacturing system. The logic went that since it took a full day sometimes to change [...]

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For all the space nerds reading my site, bear with me a bit, I want to post about something else near and dear to me. I realized that it was a little bit ironic to choose a name for my blog with references to both Space and the Philippines[1] and then forget to write anything [...]

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Sorry guys that I haven’t been phenominally talkative the last couple of days. I did have some more thoughts I wanted to interject regarding the L-1 and Aerobraking discussions, but I’ve been swamped at work. If Clark Lindsey, Alan Boyle, and the others I’ve heard from are right, the Centennial Challenges office will be announcing [...]

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by: Ken Some folks that stop by out here in the Selenian Boondocks might be wondering just what exactly this whole L-1 thing is all about. Simply put, L-1 is the point on the line connecting the center of mass of the Earth and the Moon where the pulls from either side are balanced out. [...]

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After a lot of what must have been frustrating attempts yesterday, SpaceX finally succeeded in doing their hold-down firing today (click here to see the movie from their site). According to Elon: We were very happy to be able to execute a flight countdown all the way to lighting the engine. Although there wasn’t a [...]

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Hey guys, just wanted to point another new addition to the blogroll: FreeLuna. This one is run by fellow Bay Area Moon Society member, Bill Clawson. Bill’s got a great sense of humor (as evinced by his second post), and a lot of good ideas. It should be fun to see what he has to [...]

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I also decided that now would be a good time to clean up and update the blogroll. I had to drop Derek’s “SpaceShipSummer Blog” because he hasn’t posted in over a year. If he wants to start blogging again, I’ll put it back up. I also dropped Crooked Timber, as they’ve tended to post less [...]

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Ok, now that I’m home watching little Jonny, I think that I have two more subtopics relevant to the Lunar Transportation discussion that I wanted to post about. The first involves propellant depots, and the second revolves around how to get people to and from the lunar surface. To Depot or not to Depot (or [...]

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Ok, before I run off to work today, I wanted to follow-up on my comments last night regarding reusable lunar transportation systems. Propulsive Braking or Aerobraking?One of the questions that comes up a lot regarding reusable LEO-LUNO or LEO-L1 tug is how do you actually intend to get it back to LEO. The main options [...]

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