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Suborbital Spaceflight Update
HobbySpacer writes "Burt Rutan's group has fixed a problem with the SpaceShipOne and recently carried out a successful drop test. Ground studies involved tests with CFD - "creative Ford driving" using a Ford-250 pickup truck. Other suborbital news includes the announcement of plans to follow the X PRIZE competition with an annual X PRIZE Cup event in which rocket teams will compete in an air show type format. In Japan the RVT (Reusable Vehicle Test) just completed its third short hop (in Japanese) within a week. (English reports on the first and second flights.) The liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen powered vehicle seeks to develop robust, reusable technologies for vertical takeoff and landing rockets. It and subsequent vehicles will gradually expand the flight envelope to high altitudes."
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Does anyone know if there are X-prize entries using interval technology for in-flight computations or other important calculations?
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Now technically, when I was a kid, and we'd build the big ramp at the bottom of the ravine, and I'd get probably 8 feet in the air on my BMX - was that not "suborbital" flight?
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CFD, for the curious, tends to stand for "Computational Fluid Dynamics" for most companies dealing with dynamics testing.
:)
The 'Fluid' is slightly misleading, as most packages will happily simulate gasses as well, thus enabling you to check the behavior of air around your airborne vehicle of choice.
But if dropping an old Ford does the trick for them, then what the heck
Hmm, I guess "suborbital flight" has nothing to do with flying submarines then. Shame, that was such a great image in my head.
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Okay, This just occured to me but, they haven't tested the engines yet, and the X-Prise is supposed to place them into sub-orbital. How close are they going to be to have to deal with re-entry? (ie. could one of the teams accidentally "over-achieve"?)
While I doubt this will happen, I'm just wondering what sort of margin for error exists.
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Movie opens with the green code, Warner Bros. and the logo, The Matrix
Revolutions. The code dissapears and we see a flash as the movie picks
up exactly where the last one did, with Bane and Neo on the tables,
knocked out. Trinity is slowly whispering to Neo to wake up, then talks
to the nurse. The nurse explains that it seems that Neo is jacked into
the Matrix. Trinity questions how this is possible and relays the
message to Morpheus. Morpheus gives her the news that Niobe's ship has
crashed and she is stranded with Ghost. Morpheus says that shes got
important information in regards to Neo. Trinity says to hurry up and
go.
They fly the Hammer into a crater and find the crashed Logos. Morpheus
and his crew go into the ship to discover that the power is out. With a
bit of repairs, the ship will work again. During this time, Bane
awakens, but notices that he is another room and not in Neo's place.
Also during this time, Niobei explains to Trinity that the Oracle has
loads of information as to the whereabouts of Neo and how to save him,
and that only Trin can save him. Link finishes the repairs on the ship
by giving some of the Hammer's power to it and it is ready to set out.
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broadcast depth, as well as they explain that there is a survivor on
the Hammer which needed to be taken to Zion (they dont know Bane is on
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head. Neo awakens in Mobil Ave with a headache. He checks his body for
injuries (including his belly-button), and gets up and sees a little
girl there. She smiles at him, and he tells her to wait. He looks
around and sees that he is in some sort of abandoned subway station. He
reads "Mobil Ave." on the walls. The little girl (the child) walks up
to him and says "welcome to limbo. I am Sati". Neo asks her what
happened, where Trinity is, where he is, etc. Sati says that he is in a
place between the Matrix and the Machine World. Neo gets up, confused,
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stops... then keeps going. Neo notices the "LOOP" at the front and back
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before meeting with the Oracle, but suddenly Smith bursts through the
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it out with them, but are beat. Seraph steps in and beats the Smiths
and kicks them through the door. Trinity and Morpheus wonder how Seraph
could possibly be so powerful, and he simply says "You dont believe in
angels?"
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welcomes them, and Trin wastes no time in asking about Neo. The Oracle
says he is being held captive by the Merovingian, and that he is in a
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appearance, and she explains that she was given up the Merovingian by
two programs which hatched a child within the Matrix which is vital to
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the only way to break him out is to go see the Merovingian, who
controls the time within the Matrix, in Club Hell. Trinity and Morpheus
are set to go, but Seraph decides to go with them to help out.
We see a couple of scenes with Smith taking over people w
I've been a consultant for an aircraft project for about eight years, and one of the problems we've run into over and over again is funding. Whenever an aerospace idea tries to break the mold or move from traditionally taught ideas, it seems it's generally shunned by the aerospace community. Looking at the pictures shown on their site, they are some fairly fanciful designs -- ones that certainly wouldn't be looked at from the aerospace circles we run in. So who exactly funds these projects, private investors, companies?
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1. Have you amateur astronaut strap on a life support system (scuba gear)
2. Outfit him with a controlled reentry device (parachute)
3. Put him a lunch vehicle (catapult).
4. PROFIT.
Ummm, yeah. Let's increase interest in the field by following in the footsteps of airshows
What could possibly go wrong with such a plan?
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Next they ought to combine efforts with these people, and with these folks to set up a recruitment program for pilots...
If NASA had this problem they would have had to build a Wind Tunnel and finance the development of a Supercomputer, in the "correct" congressional district. Ensuring future funding of the program.
The F150 solution goes to show what the private sector can do, given the proper motivation.
Rutan is gonna win this thing on December 17th.
Ground studies involved tests with CFD - "creative Ford driving" using a Ford-250 pickup truck.
Why am I having flashbacks to Buckaroo Bonzai?
My favourite part of any airshow has always been the static display. This doesn't bode well for the X-Prise :-)
I work for a competitor, but I've always regretted the DC-X getting its funding cut. It looked like it was a truly innovative idea and had a lot of promise.
And the brethren went away edified.
Other test objectives during the fourth drop test included evaluating SpaceShipOne's hybrid rocket motor controller, with Melvill checking out the "Arm," "Fire," and safing switches as well as the oxidizer dump valve.
Yes sir, them there switches work.
They aren't connected to anything!
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Once upon a time NASA thought this way too.
One of the early lifting body X-plane designs was tested by towing it behind a car like a glider...
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Rutan is gonna win this thing on December 17th.
If you knew anything about the industry, you'd know that Rutan
doesn't know his aerospace from his arse.
If you knew anything about the industry, you'd know that Rutan doesn't know his aerospace from his arse.
That's why he's had one success after another, right?
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
This is all going to end badly.
The cream of the crop go to NASA, Boeing, GM and Lockheed.
These losers are the dreck at the bottom.
This is just the 21st century version of model rockets.
The consequences have become deadly, though.
There will be an X-Prize disaster, mark this post.
but doesn't Ford stand for "Found On Road Dead"? That doesn't bode well for the design...
These people who are building these rockets pose a grave threat to all of us and they ought to be banned. We can't have any old joe messing around with these very dangerous rockets because something bad will happen. Any one or all of these people could be terrorists too... or have you forgotten 9/11 already? BAN THEM NOW!
WHat would today's society be without the private sector taking risks? I for one would love to have the time and money to be a pioneer in this field. Ya it's risky, but what fun is life without risks. If I died doing it then at leas I would have been doing what I loved, and possibly gain a name for myself in the history books. If I lived then it's very possible I would have helped set a precendence for future private space travel. All said and done I laud these people for their efforts. I hope all turns out well for them but I will still be supportive if there are disasters along the way.
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This is his FIRST ATTEMPT.
The story is blatant self-promotion.
Every one knows if you're going to do a suborbital drop of a vehicle it has to be '62 (if animated) or '57 (if in non-animated panels) corvette.
Note: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/
In the mid to late 80's I was part of CFD experiments where the pilot was loaded with thirteen screwdrivers and a parasail. The polit and parasail were pulled to launch pulled by a Ford F150 across the desert over the outskirts of Fresno (actually Sanger), Ca.
I think I could see my house from up there.
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They take off and land like the ships in old scifi and especially liek the ship in Tintin Destination Moon. image
Burt Rutan is such a great idol figure for any aspiring youth; he's cool as elvis, no nonsense as any good ol' american commonsenser, creative as da vinci and alternative as it can be yet deeply respected and admired by the "establishment" guys of his craft. The fact that he can make a design company as relatively small as his sustain itself and succeed in a market that is dominated by huge corporations that not only are deep pocketed and heavily staffed but also capable of yielding political influence, such as boing and lockhead martin, and just do his thing yet sell good without "selling out" is phenomenal and very inspiring. His design are truly creative and beautiful. It's a testament to a design when it's not only highly functional but also beautiful, and wild in a way that's unlike any before yet amazingly simple and makes sense in a way that makes you think there's no good reason why it shouldn't have been this way all along. He should a case study on the list of everyone who's even remotely interested in innovation.
Rather than a 1/4 mile horizontal drag race, make it ia 1 mile vertical drag race with total flight staying within the limits of Class E airspace, preferably below 14,500 ft.
Start with the Rocket Guy's 15,000 ft flight as a standard and do exhibitions involving dual launches of these vehicles. Grandstands must of course be at a safe distance but you don't need to be too close to something like this for the thrill of your life. There's a lot more energy being released in these drags than a typical 1/4 mile drag of course, and a lot higher likelihood of fatalities to the "drivers" but if you move it out to a remote area you can have some serious fun while developing the flight systems needed to carry men to orbit.
I like the X-Prize and all but really there needs to be some serious motor-head madness here with the motor babes and all.
A side benefit of this sort of competition is we get to find out if the spam in a can idea of manned rocketry is actually superior to human guidance. We all know someone will just have to attempt human guided rockets.
Seastead this.
Do you have any substantiation for your claim, or are you trolling?
And I DO know something about the industry.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I'd seen the report on their resolving this problem a week or two ago (can't find the news item now though...) but had not noticed their creative use of the term CFD!
Energy: time to change the picture.
You forgot the ablative coating.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
Rutan built the "round the world balloon" for Richard Branson.
This is his FIRST ATTEMPT. The story is blatant self-promotion.
Let me know what you think,
- jason
The most comprehensive collection of info on ISAS RVT. There are links to videos of previous flight test campaigns. BTW, japanese heavy industrustry giant IHI ( best known as a turbomachinery manufacturer, yeah, thats superchargers for you ) has been contributing to this project. With Japanese industry giants involved, it might not be long before you can take to the skies with Toyota Spacecruiser.
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If NASA had this problem they would have had to build a Wind Tunnel and finance the development of a Supercomputer, in the "correct" congressional district. Ensuring future funding of the program.
The F150 solution goes to show what the private sector can do, given the proper motivation.
Sadly, people are still going to vote for socialized healthcare in 2004. Great, my next doctor visit will be managed by a NASA clone.
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I think you may have your Rutans confused. We are talking about Burt the Engineer and successful entrepreneur, not Dick the test pilot. Burt designed the airplane that Dick flew around the world. Dick is not involved in the Xprize competition. He part of XCOR probably more as a figure head and test pilot.
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