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We just completed our third generation of Hall effect MHD generator core. Now it’s on to building a new mounting rig for the motors and magnets. We are hoping to do the first firing tomorrow.

The Dark Sky Station house band, Space Vacuum has released a new version of the JPA song!

http://spacevacuum.bandcamp.com/track/jp

The team working away on Dark Sky Station Three parts.

They’re are valve and lifting cell interface decks.

This is the Air Force’s Project Farside balloon launched rocket flying through it’s balloon.

High Power Rocketry Blog has a great article on it.

Congratulations High Power Rocketry Blog on your thousandth Post!

2011 Review in Pictures

Today was High Rack day. Three are for upcoming PongSat missions and ATO tests and one is for commercial work. Fin mounts and lift points were installed today.

Another great video out of Japan about our Samsung project. Watch for two familiar faces!

Here is Drew troubleshooting a High Rack before flight while everyone stairs at him. Talk about grace under pressure!

We’re back to the first gen Hall effect MHD unit. In this test we were looking at current with the max battery stack. I think the most dangerous thing we do at the shop is handle these magnets. When stacking and unstacking you wear two layers of gloves. That way when the magnets slip and try and pinch you can spend 15 minutes getting a corner of the glove out from between them instead of a corner of your hand.

Saturday we took the best Faraday MHD unit and mounted it on to our Quad engine. Not long before the first Quad firing. It got delayed with the Samsung commercial and Tandem flight, but we’re going to try and sneak it in while the flying weather is bad.