Now begins the work of filling flaws, filling the millions of microscopic pin holes and finishing.
Trust me, helliptical, hollow molded parts are tricky!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MHD Test 80
In this test we moved the motor back to full engage the visible plasma. The results looked spectualular but the performance completely tanked. This actually is very good news. It means that the electrodes need to be out of the corrosive flow.
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Anthony Interview
It’s JPA in the news week! Here’s Anthony Gregory talking about PongSats and MiniCubes at the Space Access Conference in Arizona.
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