{"id":1278,"date":"2010-08-01T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2010-08-01T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T18:03:21","slug":"archaepteryx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Archaepteryx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Jordan the Archaepteryx has come out of retirement for one more round.\u00a0 The Archaepteryx was our microgravity drop vehicle.\u00a0 Like Buzz Lightyear it doesn&#8217;t fly but falls with style.\u00a0 At its full 300 pound drop weight it provides 20 seconds of microgravity when released from a balloon at 100,000 feet.\u00a0 For the last 20 years it&#8217;s been in storage.<\/p>\n<p>The Archaepteryx is being reimaged as drag reduction test bed for the Airship To Orbit program. The vehicle will undergo a steep weight reduction program, from 300 to 20 pounds. That part is actually easy. The massive nose weight has been removed and the steel and acrylic internal structure will be replaced with a carbon and foam one. The Archaepteryx has a beautiful custom 26 foot orange and brown parachute and a mach 5 all kevlar ribbon drogue. That will be replaced by a 7 foot parachute out of the ML rocket.\u00a0 Look for drop test to start in the fall of next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1297\" title=\"Archaepteryx1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1299\" title=\"Archaepteryx2\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1300\" title=\"Archaepteryx3\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1301\" title=\"Archaepteryx4\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1303\" title=\"Archaepteryx5\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Archaepteryx5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Jordan the Archaepteryx has come out of retirement for one more round.\u00a0 The Archaepteryx was our microgravity drop vehicle.\u00a0 Like Buzz Lightyear it doesn&#8217;t fly but falls with style.\u00a0 At its full 300 pound drop weight it provides 20 seconds of microgravity when released from a balloon at 100,000 feet.\u00a0 For the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}