JP Aerospace Blog » balloon http://jpaerospace.com/blog Our Journey to Space Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:55:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Unexpected Results http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=5217 http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=5217#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:57:10 +0000 Administrator http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=5217 We fired MHD test 91 last night. This was intended to be a “null” test. The next thing we are working on is electrode gap width. The idea is at start with the electrodes so far apart that you don’t generate any power. The slowing move them together test after test until you find the optimum. However instead of getting all zeros we got a pretty strong spike followed by a weird wave. We’re still analyzing but I think this opens up a few possibilities.

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Our hero thought he was getting the upper hand but didn’t realize the threat was from above.

The creatures tendrils reached out for the starship.

Even locking the s-foils down didn’t break the X-Wing free from the monster’s malevolent latex clutches.

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