March 11th, 2024
Introducing the latest configuration:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/kO3ENmbQQ9o?si=-GhoXAaDAmzQrldZ
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March 7th, 2024
Prototyping w/ masking tape. The team made the sub trailers prototype guide rails out of foam, plastic & masking tape. After fitting them to the sub we mounted them on the trailer. Next week we’ll lift the sub on to the trailer for a test fit. Then we’ll make the real ones.
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February 21st, 2024
Every few years the Orbital Ascender gets an update. We put in everything we’ve learned from our high altitude work, our high altitude airships and engine test firings. This is the Orbital Ascender Variant H1. It has a new airfoil, engine configuration and a hundred other mods.
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February 10th, 2024
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January 16th, 2024
New Video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/aRtM0hheSjg?si=kK3bGrL6jzSWBHjC
A short of one of our balloons giving it up at 100,000 feet.
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January 16th, 2024
Our mission control van being stripped down so it can get built back up again. There’s a couple of decades of desert dust under that frame.
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January 5th, 2024
Video! https://youtu.be/N6UdMPT2b4o
We caught the burst of the Away 132 balloon from the ground. It was straight overhead when it burst at 102,900 feet. This video shows the burst from the ground and from on board.
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