Monthly Archives: September 2005

I hate bumping one of Ken’s posts off the top of the blog, especially right after he posted it, but I figured I needed to mention this. Basically, it looks like I won’t be at the XP Cup Expo after … Continue reading →

Howdy all, Ken here. I’m just sitting here on a quiet Sunday morning thinking about all of the recent and upcoming activities that the National Space Society of North Texas (NSS-NT) has undertaken. Our chapter activities are geared towards talking … Continue reading →

Well, it looks like there is more information about what happened, and what SpaceX is intending on doing here at space.com. I was kinda bugged with some of the attitudes expressed on sci.space.policy about the whole situation. I guess I’m … Continue reading →

This one isn’t as speculative, anonymously sourced, or even controversial, just interesting. Clark linked to an interesting article in Flight International about SpaceX’s plans for the Falcon 9. After mentioning the two heavy versions (ie the ones with strapons), they … Continue reading →

While we’re still working on getting into engine testing and designing our first demo vehicle, Armadillo did some hover tests of their biprop VTVL vehicle over the weekend (Warning: very big file ~13MB, they also have a shorter 3MB file … Continue reading →

I just saw a report on a usenet group about a test-stand failure of a SpaceX Merlin engine. [Update: the original message appears to be missing, and none of the other replies contain much of the original message. I don’t … Continue reading →

Now that we have this newfangled digital camera of ours…I figured it might be fun to put some more pictures up. Once again, most of them are of little Jon. [Update: Tiff wanted me to add the following picture]

Well, after a bunch of posts about SpaceX that were mostly based on speculation and single-source anonymous rumors, it is nice to be able to report something right from the source. In comments to my previous question about why the … Continue reading →

Hey all,Am I the only one that noticed the fact that the new stats and prices announced by SpaceX for their vehicles shows Falcon V as having a much lower payload than previously quoted, while costing nearly $2M more? The … Continue reading →

While I’m waiting for the FEA solver to paint me some pretty pictures for a part I’m working on, I figured I’d write a quick blog post. Yesterday I wrote a little about SpaceX’s Falcon IX announcement, and I asked … Continue reading →