Projects on Deck

December 10th, 2009

Things are getting a bit crazy. There are twenty internal projects currently underway and two commercial flights on deck.

Here is a set of sketches of some of the projects. It’s a real mix, systems, experiments and vehicles. A few are complete and waiting for flight, some have already been flown and are being upgraded, some have six months to go. They all have been started and have real hardware in the shop.

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On the Air

December 4th, 2009

The ABC News10 story aired and is on line:

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=71305&catid=2

Dale did an awesome job on the story!!

JPA in the News

December 2nd, 2009

Dale Schornack at News10 the Sacramento ABC station has done a news piece on JPA and the Toshiba chair commercial. The piece will air on the 11pm newscast on channel 10 in the greater Sacramento and central valley area. These sometimes get picked up nationally. If you see it let me know.

You will also be able to watch it on their website after it airs:  www.news10.net

They’ve running previews for it on the 11pm news cast all this week.  There should be some good “making of” video that hasn’t been seen before.

Happy Thanksgiving

November 26th, 2009

Here’s two drawings looking into the future of ATO development.

This is a Block 4 Mach Glider with a quad engine. This is a 30 foot test bed vehicle. The second drawing shows the Mach Glider being launched from the Tandem HL.

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Chair Mission Picture Page

November 22nd, 2009

Here’s a picture page of the Away 39-40-41-42 missions.

Toshiba Space Chair Commercial

November 16th, 2009

This project was both very technically complicated and a blast! We even snuck PongSats on board.

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The Making of Video

November 16th, 2009

Here a “Making of” video that Toshiba put together.
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