Ascender 9 floating in the hanger.#jpaerospace #ascender
There are ten cells inside the Ascender 9 that hold helium. This one is out for testing.#jpaerospace #ascender
MHD test firing number 106. Yes, that is a little red wagon being used as a test stand.#jpaerospace #magnetohydrodynamics #space
how to traverse the flight regime between floating stationary at neutral buoyancy altitude, and achieving aerodynamic flight (at super to hypersonic speeds) without ripping the fragile craft apart due to being too slow to ascend out of the denser lower atmosphere but too fast to survive in that denser atmosphere.
Quote from: edzieba on 08/06/2019 12:24 pmhow to traverse the flight regime between floating stationary at neutral buoyancy altitude, and achieving aerodynamic flight (at super to hypersonic speeds) without ripping the fragile craft apart due to being too slow to ascend out of the denser lower atmosphere but too fast to survive in that denser atmosphere.and their solution is to build a Dark Sky Station where that craft is constructed and serviced.
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I can see the point of combining SEP + airship at the edge of the atmosphere... do they intend to accelerate the airship to 9 km/s, but very slowly (thanks SEP very low thrust) to not rip it apart ? But in this case, how much time would it take to ascent to orbit ? SEP thrust is minuscule, the airship is huge... days, weeks of time ?
More space Legos!On the right was a payload box made out of Legos. This was the Away 121 mission.#jpaerospace #LEGO #space
And submarine Legos too! The electronic components in the external housings on the sub are all mounted with Legos. It makes them really easy to swap out and reposition.#jpaerospace #Legos #submarine
Our Data Dart is one of the tools we use to research high speed flight. The Air Force wouldn't loan me an SR-71 (party poopers) so I had to make my own, just a wee bit smaller... #jpaerospace
Our new Data Dart Mark 10. The fastest lump of plastic in town. #jpaerospace
One of the things I love about JP Aerospace is how they find low cost ways to do key research, such as on hypersonic flight
Plasma work at JPA. This is MHD firing 91 with the current chart overlaid. #jpaerospace
I’m still patiently waiting for the “space” part of this aerospace operation.
Next on Deck: Ascender Ellipse.This is the first Ascender with an elliptical cross section & an all air beam internal structure. It's just a little one, 26 ft long. It's for low altitude structural tests. The Ellipse is 70% complete. We hope to fly before years end.#jpaerospace
Concept drawings of the Block 4 Mach Glider. Mach Gliders are small Ascender airship used for development. The Block 4 will carry a single 'Quad' plasma engine.#jpaerospace
It's bad drawing time! This is the Block 4 Mach Glider launching off the heavy lift Tandem. It's a development step toward to the TransAtmospheric Ascender (suborbital, but reaches space) which itself is a development step toward the orbital airship.#jpaerospace #ascender
A concept sketch of the Heavy Lift Tandem. It's shown without the balloons.#jpaerospace
Anther bad drawing! Here's the Heavy Lift Tandem with the roll deployed poly balloons.#jpaerospace
We do aerodynamic research with the Data Dart by launching it out of our hypersonic shock tube. This was flight 14.#jpaerospace
Some high speed flight tests go better than others. Here's a Data Dark coming apart during flight 15.#jpaerospace
