JP Aerospace Blog

Author: Administrator

  • Progress on All Fronts

    Paul and Kevin with the lifting cell interfaces for the new Dark Sky Station. Anthony and JP with the quad rocket engine.

    Natalie’s been mass producing video camera insulation housing. Anthony inspecting a freshly joining airship propeller blade.

  • JPA and Samsung

    Here’s one of our little intrepid phone carrying astronaut heading for the black.

  • Current Progress

    Propeller assembly is pretty tricky. It takes three folks about an hour then everybody needs a break afterwards. The team has gotten three blade assembled. One more and we have a set of two for Tandem.

    We also conducted a instrument calibration test for the quad engine’s load sensor, did maintenance and re tuned the ground tracking antenna and even managing to figure out what was wrong with the equipment generator in the mission control van.

  • Sand Brick on facebook

    Our partner company Sand Brick Technologies, LLC is now on facebook!

    Stop by and “like us”!

  • JPA with the Patriots

    The team was down in Byron Ca. on Sunday for the open house of the Patriots foundation. The Patriots are on jet aerobatic team. We were there showing off PongSats and MiniCubes for their new education foundation. Our own Ed is not only one of the pilots but is also the director of the Patriots Foundation’s aerospace academy.

    Patriots Foundation

    Patriots Jet Team

  • First of the New Propellers

    Now begins the work of filling flaws, filling the millions of microscopic pin holes and finishing.

    Trust me, helliptical, hollow molded parts are tricky!

  • Horror of the Heights

    You can’t have Star Wars without monsters. Our epic space battle from the Away 66 mission provided one.

    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.

  • Carbon and Copper

    It was all day with two elements Saturday. We’ve started on our forth generation Hall MHD unit. All these units are one off’s for they ended up being hand made.  Paul and Kevin spent yesterday cutting out the twenty copper parts for the electrodes. We also joined the halves of the first new propeller. It looks so cool in its raw carbon form I almost want to just leave it that way.

  • Propeller Halves

    We’ve made enough for two sets of propellers and one backup blade. They’ve all been rough trimmed and one pair is ready for assembly.

  • New Blades

    Kevin is pulling an airship propeller blade half out of the mold.