ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
Here’s a YouTube video report of some of NASA’s new Lunar vehicles undergoing testing at Moses Lake, Washington. It seems the area there is some of the most Moon-like terrain. Here’s a report from another TV station:
Attending: Gerald Nordley, Dave Weinshenker, Michael Wallis, Dan Solvin, Stewart Cobb, and Julie Porter. Call to order: 20:10
I attended Makin’ Orbit ’93, a space technology conference in Berkeley, CA in January of that year. By this time I’d giving up on getting VC funding for my own SSTO designs and did not have confidence that liquid fuel
[[ Editor’s Note: This post is taken from “In-flight Propellant Transfer Spaceplane Design and Testing Considerations”, AIAA 95-2955, by Captain Mitchell Burnside Clapp (*), Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117 http://www.risacher.org/bh/bh-paper1.html ]] Hydrogen peroxide is not currently available at 98%
I’ve added the following documents: Erps_1st.pdf – Minutes of 1st Board Meeting Erps_art.pdf – Articles of Incorporation Erps_byl.pdf – Corporate Bylaws These are PDF files recovered from the old cube.erps.org hard drive after the system failed and died. I don’t
Here’s a challenge – develop a small vehicle to transport and land rovers for the Google Lunar Rover X-Prize. TLC – the Transport and Land Carrier Basic Design Goals: 400 kg vehicle mass limit 20 kg payload to carry 1.4
It seems the folks at Lockheed Martin are doing 1/5th scale tests on a new launch vehicle. The goal is to get to orbit faster and cheaper thanks to an automated reusable spacecraft run by its own computers and just
On Sunday, the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society held it’s Annual meeting and elected Directors and Officers for the 2008/2009 year. Directors: The following people were elected as Directors of the Society (in no particular order): Julie Porter Stu Cobb Dave
CosmicLog has an article up about the Rocket Racing League, that mentions (among other things) that Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace will be supplying engines for the RRL, possibly as early as their first demo flights Aug. 1st and 2nd at the
Armadillo did a cool test to see what happens to an engine if they let the tanks run all the way to dry. No explosion but definitely a destructive test.