Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Launch Vehicles, Propellant Depots, Technology on Nov 16th, 2011
Since I’m not yet ready to talk about some of the neat ideas we have in the hopper at Altius, I figured it might be fun to do some blog posts on some of the cool-but-not-very-well-known space technologies that are being worked on these days, particularly ones being developed by other companies here in the [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, NASA, Propellant Depots, Space Policy on May 25th, 2011
Keith Cowing posted an interesting notice over on SpaceRef today. Basically NASA is using authority in one bill to remove a restriction in their acquisition regulations on doing “anchor tenant” type contracts. Anchor tenancy agreements have been talked about in the past as a way of making it easier to close the business case on [...]
Posted in Excuses for Light Blogging, Propellant Depots on May 3rd, 2011
It probably won’t happen too soon, but I give a little heads up on this Altius Space Machines blog post about some depot orbital dynamics work I’m working with a friend on. Hope I have time to talk about it soon.
Posted in Administrivia, Propellant Depots on Apr 7th, 2011
I forgot to throw the link up over here, but I put my presentation for the Space Show Classroom up on my Altius Blog. Here’s a link. [Update: I had a glaring error on one of the slides pointed out. It turns out that an inclined plane in LEO will only line up with an [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, Propellant Depots on Apr 5th, 2011
Sorry things have been so quiet on my end. With how busy work has been keeping me lately, I have had very little time for blogging, but wanted to let people know that I’ll be joining Dan Adamo (former FIDO for NASA JSC) and Drs. John Jurist and Jim Logan to discuss propellant depots. The [...]
Posted in ESAS, Propellant Depots on Mar 30th, 2011
Keith Cowing just posted a link to a fascinating new pro-Propellant Depot analysis. I was impressed to see who the second coauthor was… When you have one of the leaders of ESAS coming out in favor of propellant depots and commercial launch, that says a ton. Very much looking forward to reading the article. Thanks [...]
Posted in Propellant Depots on Jan 31st, 2011
I was somewhat surprised that my earlier Dual-Fluid Depot post generated as much interest as it did. I didn’t think there were many people who cared about depots who hadn’t read any of the papers by Frank Zegler, Bernard Kutter, or myself on the topic. But I wanted to include an intro just for sake [...]
Posted in Propellant Depots on Jan 21st, 2011
[Note: Welcome AIAA Daily Launch readers! Feel free to check out other posts on propellant depots, as well as the Altius Space Machines blog where I talk about what my current company is up to.] I was going to write a short post today about a variant on the Dual-Fluid, Single-Launch Propellant Depot idea, when [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, ESAS, NASA, NEOs, Propellant Depots on Jan 13th, 2011
So, most of you in the space policy world have heard about NASA’s report back to Congress about how it wants to build an Ares-V classic HLV, but that Congress wasn’t giving them enough time or money, and Congress’ dignified response that “Nu Uh! You can too!” That exchange was annoying, but utterly predictable. What [...]
Posted in Air Force, Altius Space Machines, Business, Entrepreneurship, Propellant Depots, Tuggery on Dec 18th, 2010
Earlier this week, Colin Doughan posted the first post in what should hopefully be a fun series of posts on the business case of servicing the Iridium satellites over on his excellent Space Business Blog. As he mentioned at the start of the post, I’ve been working with him on this for some time, but [...]