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Your Name at the Edge of Space
July 1st, 2021The List
June 6th, 2021Working the list. Yesterday the team worked on the Away 131 platform, an airship and the submarine (and some shop cleaning). Tackling giant projects: create the do to lists, break it up in to chunks, write it on the white board, cross it out, repeat.
Space Chair: The Micro Documentary
May 26th, 2021in 2009 JP Aerospace flew four chairs to the edge of space on high altitude balloons. This was a done for a TV commercial for Toshiba. This micro documentary chronicles this odd yet exhilarating chapter in commercial space.
The video: https://youtu.be/IO6j2ap1n3g
Airship to Orbit Animation
May 23rd, 2021New video! This is an animation of the Airship to Orbit launch system with yours truly talking you through. This was originally for an episode about the program on the ‘Beyond Geek’ show. Give it a view:
Segmenented Block Firing Test, The Movie
May 13th, 2021We got some great footage of the Block 7 test. We put a short video together with the footage and explanations.
https://youtu.be/sGl4po-jm4o
Flying Fox
April 9th, 2021
YouTube has start a program called #Shorts. It’s for videos under 60 seconds in a phone format. Here’s our first one. (ed note:Music played by JP on a tinny piano in the old west in 1873 during a unfortunate time travel accident. Please forgive him.)
Next Steps in Engine Development
April 9th, 2021
Stack 4 of our core segments, side fed the O2, slide into our accelerator & mount MHD #115 on the end & you end up with a tiny test chemical/electric engine.
This isn’t going to push anything very fast but will generate a lot of data.
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