Monthly Archives: September 2006

You might be a space nerd if out of curiousity you get out a tape measure to try and calculate your appartment’s volume in cubic meters, so you can get a feel for how big it is relative to a … Continue reading →

As the X-Prize Cup draws near, we’ve been very busy here at Masten Space Systems. Ian, wrote our latest update earlier today. As Ian points out, we’ve been learning a bunch about our system that is actually accelerating the overall … Continue reading →

A commenter earlier brought up an interesting thought that’s been bugging me for a while. Bigelow is trying to build his 3-person Sundancer module to be light enough to launch on either a bare-bones Atlas V, or a single-stick Falcon … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve had a chance to put forward some back-of-the envelope analysis showing why I think Lockheed could possibly meet the $10M/ticket price range that Bigelow is trying to achieve, I want to put a few more thoughts down. … Continue reading →

Ok, last week, when I first got sent the link to the Atlas-V man-rating paper, I noticed that they mentioned using Atlas V for space tourism. I started writing this blog post Thursday morning before the big Lockheed/Bigelow announcement, but … Continue reading →

As most of you have now read (either here or here), Robert Bigelow announced at the Space 2006 conference today in San Jose that they are going to try and launch their first manned space station by late-2009/early-2010. This first … Continue reading →

Earlier this week when I posted a link to the Lockheed paper on man-rating Atlas V, I got an off-list comment from somebody to expect a major announcement from Lockheed this week. Well, we didn’t have to wait too long. … Continue reading →

It’s always a mixed emotion when you read a magazine article about a new technology that’s now hitting the market that you had independently thought up 7 years ago. On the one hand there’s the “Hot Dang! That idea really … Continue reading →

One of the things I’ve noticed over the past year or two is that my view about the big aerospace primes has been slowly changing. I used to pick on Boeing and Lockheed and Northrup as being a bunch of … Continue reading →

I was poking around at some of the other articles on that Lockheed page ,that I got sent a link to, and found some more interesting stuff. Once again, big caveat about hyperbole being used, but I still think that … Continue reading →