Part One of a series on CEV design & launch concepts
Mike Majeski postulates an international effort to build the next human spacecraft among the U.S., Russia, Europe, and Japan. He discusses both capsule and winged designs for an International Space Transport vehicle.
Posted by jburk at July 27, 2024 11:21 PM | TrackBackGreat to see other contributors to the cause..
Posted by: Harold LaValley at July 27, 2024 12:54 PMA fair number of typos in the article, though...
Posted by: FredKiesche at July 27, 2024 05:43 PMWould you care to elaborate? All I see is maybe "Klipper" should be "Kliper"
Posted by: James Burk at July 28, 2024 10:45 AMBiconic shape is spelled correctly. In fact here is an article on such.
http://www.islandone.org/APC/Aero/01.html
Here is a great photo of such.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/esaacrv.htm
"With talks of NASA..." perhaps better as "With talk of NASA..."
"...leaving Russia as the only form of transportation"--now I know what you mean, but it could be a bit clearer.
"...Russia has taken over all crew operations...". All "transportation" operations maybe. There's an American astronaut aboard, so I think that counts as "crew" operations.
Etc.
I did recognize "biconic", that was not one of the nits I was picking. I realize I'm picking nits, I just wanted to see a good article get better.
Posted by: FredKiesche at July 28, 2024 07:35 PMAh and what could get better than starting at the top when looking to design the new rocket(CEV). We all know that it is the most important part when you come right down to it. For without the proper planning for a crew we could use almost anything to do the other chores of cargo hauling.
This is the most important part for any design new clean sheet or of some derivative from any existing rockets that are manufacture. Which includes those from foriegn nations of Russia, Japan or china as well if they were chosen for a starting point of design.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at July 29, 2024 01:22 PMSorry about the typos guys, won't happen again. ;)
Posted by: Mike Majeski at August 10, 2024 10:10 AM