Starchaser
Starchaser
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What is everyones view on starchaser industies and there entry into the x-prize?
starchaser viewable at www.starchaser.co.uk
cheers
dan
starchaser viewable at www.starchaser.co.uk
cheers
dan
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RE: Starchaser
As to Starchaser, i couldn't comment on their capability or approach.
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RE: Starchaser
Britain has a history of innovation, and I like to feel this is a good follow up. Lets face it, Appollo still inspires 30+ years on - I think every engineer dreams of putting NASA on his CV.
In the same way that Burt Rutan has (brilliantly) made a success out of composite canards, I think Starchaser deserve to do well.
Mart
RE: Starchaser
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RE: Starchaser
but it will be good news as soon as anybody wins and the industry will start to take off. and we all may get a chance of going into space.
does any body have or could work out cost comparisons bewteen the scaled route to space and sc route to space?
Cheers
Dan
RE: Starchaser
Look at the notices down the page.
http://www.ez.org/index.html
RE: Starchaser
TTFN
RE: Starchaser
Mart
RE: Starchaser
The grapevine in the composites world has it that one problem maybe serious and they may have been close to a disaster.
Hope not
Here is another good site for information.
http://www.scaled.com/
RE: Starchaser
Great achievement!
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RE: Starchaser
www.xcor.com
RE: Starchaser
Unclesid, you need to be more specific, this looks alike a family affair, this time we have Dick Rutan, the Excor test pilot.
Burt Rutan is the Spaceshipone designer.
Any more out there?
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RE: Starchaser
Here are three sites that I checkout regularly.
A lot of information.
http://www.astronautix.com
Checkout the links on this site
http://members.lycos.co.uk/spaceprojects/
http://www.space.com/
RE: Starchaser
Everyone "knows" that a biro only works in gravity. This was sufficient for NASA to develop the zero gravity pen. This has a ball bearing in the ink reservoir with the ink on one side and pressurised gas on the other, so my nephew informs me.He also said this cost big bucks to develop. The Russians? They sent their cosmonauts up equipped with pencils... at least, until they, like my nephew, could buy their zero-gravity pens cheaply in the retail market.
Actually, there may be a clue here that many space race developments do have commercial spin-offs. It is NASA'sproblem that they are often neglected.
Having said that, i suspect the commercial spin-offs for the "X priz" winner could also be significant.... anyone know of any projections?
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RE: Starchaser
Well, apparently the answer is that the Russians didn't care about graphite. Neither did NASA.
see
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Starchaser
The h2o2 engine was for there launch escape system.
i wonder what they will use this modified engine for?
Cheers
Dan