High altitude airship valve testing. Before a part goes on one of our airships, we haul up to the edge of space and put it through it’s paces. The first is the old generation helium valve, the second, the new. The new goes up for testing again on Away 130.
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We’re changing the internal structure of our airships from carbon trusses to air beams. 20 pounds per 100 feet just isn’t light enough.
Goooooooood Morning Planet Earth!!!! From an Airship to Orbit systems testing balloon mission.
When I designed our sub I wanted no thru-hull connections. Wireless controls & completely separate internal/external power. Reality is here & one window has been replaced by a plate for connections. Today we pulled it to add yet another one. Ironman was helping.
Configuration concept drawings of the electric/chemical hybrid engine arrays for the Ascender orbital airship. We’re projecting eight arrays of four.
