Monthly Archives: August 2008

Mojave Air and Space Port promotional video; it gives a nice overview of some of what’s going on at the world’s first commercial space port: Send to Kindle

Mojave Air and Space Port promotional video; it gives a nice overview of some of what’s going on at the world’s first commercial space port: Send to Kindle

Sometimes the U.S. builds things and sells them to the Chinese: GE Transportation has announced that the first China Mainline Locomotive (CML) will be delivered around Aug. 30, 2008, to the Tianjin Port in Tianjin, China. After being transferred to … Continue reading →

arXiv.org has a paper in PDF on the potential for creating a working warp drive (how to get from point A to point B faster than light). It was submitted July 12, 2008 (and revised July 15) by Richard K. … Continue reading →

At the end you can see what went wrong: Send to Kindle

Another press release from Space X: Timing is Everything On August 2nd, Falcon 1 executed a picture perfect first stage flight, ultimately reaching an altitude of 217 km, but encountered a problem just after stage separation that prevented the second … Continue reading →

From the press release from Space X: Plan Going Forward It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight [Falcon 1, Flight 3]. On the plus side, the flight of our first stage, with the new … Continue reading →

Space X has announced a 4:00 PM PDT launch attempt of their Falcon 1 rocket. This will be their third attempt to launch a Falcon 1. The first attempt exploded shortly after takeoff. The second attempt had problems with its … Continue reading →

On July 30 Space X test fired, for the first time, the full 9 Merlin engine complement of their Falcon 9 first stage. The nine engines firing together generated about 850,000 pounds of thrust. For more information and a video … Continue reading →

On July 30 Space X test fired, for the first time, the full 9 Merlin engine complement of their Falcon 9 first stage. The nine engines firing together generated about 850,000 pounds of thrust. For more information and a video … Continue reading →