Our new store ‘Dark Sky Market’ is up and running! The bazaar at the edge of space. It keeps us flying!
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Truss to Air Beam
We’re changing the internal structure of our airships from carbon trusses to air beams. 20 pounds per 100 feet just isn’t light enough.
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Morning, JP Aerospace Style
Goooooooood Morning Planet Earth!!!! From an Airship to Orbit systems testing balloon mission.
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Submarine Work
When I designed our sub I wanted no thru-hull connections. Wireless controls & completely separate internal/external power. Reality is here & one window has been replaced by a plate for connections. Today we pulled it to add yet another one. Ironman was helping.
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Sub Soldering!
When prototyping I tend to make cables extra long. It’s great when you’re always moving stuff. Now that we’re getting the submarine ready for first dive the wiring has gotten out of hand. We’re going through shortening about 60 cables. Smile, it’s soldering week !
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Ascender Ellipse in the Launch Arena
The Ascender Ellipse is one of our smallest airships. The new launch arena was sized so Ellipse can be worked on and launched protected from the wind. #jpaerospace
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Orbital Airship Engine Concept Drawings
Configuration concept drawings of the electric/chemical hybrid engine arrays for the Ascender orbital airship. We’re projecting eight arrays of four.
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Ascender Ellipse
Next on Deck: Ascender Ellipse. This is the first Ascender airship with an elliptical cross section & an all air beam internal structure. It’s just a little one, 26 ft long. It’s for low altitude structural tests. The Ellipse is 70% complete. We hope to fly before years end.
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Bellavia Getting Close to Launch
We’re starting to replace the hand made boards on Bellavia (our sub) with PCB’s This one just came in today. It’s the sensor breakout board. It connects an Arduino computer to a whole set of sensors. Kudos to Chris for a great job on board design.
