New Video! https://youtube.com/shorts/2Ew30bo2TgQ?feature=share…
Sometimes you need to let the robots do the work.
What’s Happening at JPA
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Space Kitten Christmas on the Moon!
Space Kitten Christmas edition Mug!!! The perfect Christmas gift for the spacer in your life! (and for you too!)
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Ellipse Airship Update
Today the team installed the air beam leading and trailed structure inside the Ellipse airship. On the test fit we did before the air beam did not have the pressure cell inside. This time was with the complete structure.
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New Mission Video
This is the mission video that the payload builders and other mission participants get after the flight. This was a big mission set. Great views of on board, burst, chute deployment, and the descents.
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Ellipse II
Next one down the line. The Ellipse airship is getting close to final assembly we’ve starting nailing down the specs for Ellipse II. Ellipse I is a low altitude test article. Ellipse II will be released from one our high platforms.
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Ellipse Airship Update
We’ve completed initial inflation tests of the Ellipse airships inner air beam structure. We then did a low pressure test fit inside the vehicle.
Next up will be a full pressure air beam test inside the airship. Then it’s on to making the helium cells.
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Submarine Keel Attachment Test
Yesterday we did the load test on keel attachment point test section for the sub. We loaded it to 2.4X the required load and even smacked repeatedly with a mallet under over load just to be sure. Nothing like a month long build for a 3 hour test…
We had changing the mass of the submarines keel weight. The hull came in underweight and we changed the size of the internal flooded area. This means the keel attachment exceeds the original design load. It calcs well within the range, but we need to be sure. So we built a new hull test section to test it.
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The Moon Seen from a Balloon at 100k Feet
Video! YouTube: https://youtu.be/NjIpesj9DVYWe videoed the Moon from the deck of Away 90 just seconds before balloon burst. It just a short one but a fun view.
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New Airship and New Video!
YouTube https://youtu.be/ZlF_SHUv0pUWe’ve been working on HiBot for a few years now but have never really talked about it till now. HiBot is the drone that flies to 140,000 feet.
