[AR] Re: Built another hovering rocket
- From: Jonas Bjarnø <sveskemos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:12:55 +0100
Looks good Ben!
I've had the pleasure of designing and building their primary navigation
instrument, so I'm looking forward to seeing it ride your engine in the
coming months.
If it blows up you owe me a beer ;-)
BR's
Jonas
2015-02-11 4:22 GMT+01:00 Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I was the propulsion/structural lead on another hovering rocket, this
> one for Moon Express:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMPD65dvIY
>
> Concept to first flight in a bit under four months. It was built to
> match MoonEx's planned control scheme and so has a slightly unusual
> architecture, with one large fixed engine in the center and twelve
> fixed thrusters at different downward angles on the outside. Center
> thruster is monoprop peroxide (FMC "90%" which is actually 86.6% now),
> outer are nitrogen cold gas.
>
> It won a $1M "terrestrial milestone prize" from the Google Lunar X
> Prize. Astrobotic also won a $1M prize doing flights on Masten's
> Xombie, so rockets I helped create have now won $3.15M of prizes. It
> is not lost on me that this is an extremely odd thing to make money
> at.
>
> It is a bummer that good peroxide is so hard to get or I expect we'd
> see a lot more peroxide rockets on AR. If anyone is curious I'll look
> up the pricing on the FMC stuff.
>
> Ben
>
>
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