What’s Happening at JPA

Introducing the latest configuration:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/kO3ENmbQQ9o?si=-GhoXAaDAmzQrldZ

Prototyping w/ masking tape. The team made the sub trailers prototype guide rails out of foam, plastic & masking tape. After fitting them to the sub we mounted them on the trailer. Next week we’ll lift the sub on to the trailer for a test fit. Then we’ll make the real ones.

Every few years the Orbital Ascender gets an update. We put in everything we’ve learned from our high altitude work, our high altitude airships and engine test firings. This is the Orbital Ascender Variant H1. It has a new airfoil, engine configuration and a hundred other mods.

New Video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/aRtM0hheSjg?si=kK3bGrL6jzSWBHjC

A short of one of our balloons giving it up at 100,000 feet.

Our mission control van being stripped down so it can get built back up again. There’s a couple of decades of desert dust under that frame.

Video! https://youtu.be/N6UdMPT2b4o

We caught the burst of the Away 132 balloon from the ground. It was straight overhead when it burst at 102,900 feet. This video shows the burst from the ground and from on board.

Roll at 102,900 feet. Away 132 up top. This is why we do what we do.

https://youtube.com/shorts/uTfrXf_WHEY?si=Ra60T4e6t5Cd_pJZ

This is a YouTube Short of our MHD test firing #131.