JP Aerospace Blog

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  • No Wings for Wally?

    I don’t do opinion pieces. However, something has got to me & I’m making an exception. The FAA has changed it’s rules about who gets to be called an astronaut on the same day that Wally Funk flew to space denying them all wings. This is petty.

  • Working on our Submarine

    We use our submarine as a spacecraft analog. It lets us develop life support systems, develop system integration techniques, do training etc. We just uploaded a video showing a typical work session on the sub:

  • Your Name at the Edge of Space

    We are sending the names of all our supporter on Patreon to the edge of space. You can be there too.

  • The List

    Working the list. Yesterday the team worked on the Away 131 platform, an airship and the submarine (and some shop cleaning). Tackling giant projects: create the do to lists, break it up in to chunks, write it on the white board, cross it out, repeat.

  • Space Chair: The Micro Documentary

    in 2009 JP Aerospace flew four chairs to the edge of space on high altitude balloons. This was a done for a TV commercial for Toshiba. This micro documentary chronicles this odd yet exhilarating chapter in commercial space.

    The video: https://youtu.be/IO6j2ap1n3g

  • Airship to Orbit Animation

    New video! This is an animation of the Airship to Orbit launch system with yours truly talking you through. This was originally for an episode about the program on the ‘Beyond Geek’ show. Give it a view:

  • Segmenented Block Firing Test, The Movie

    We got some great footage of the Block 7 test. We put a short video together with the footage and explanations.

  • Flying Fox

    YouTube has start a program called #Shorts. It’s for videos under 60 seconds in a phone format. Here’s our first one. (ed note:Music played by JP on a tinny piano in the old west in 1873 during a unfortunate time travel accident. Please forgive him.)

  • Next Steps in Engine Development

    Stack 4 of our core segments, side fed the O2, slide into our accelerator & mount MHD #115 on the end & you end up with a tiny test chemical/electric engine.

    This isn’t going to push anything very fast but will generate a lot of data.

  • JPA on YouTube

    Balloons, airships, submarines, rocket engines and other craziness. Checkout our YouTube channel!

    https://www.youtube.com/user/johnmpowell/videos