[AR] Re: Just where does space start?
- From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:39:15 -0700
Currently official "Space" is 62 miles.
LOL I wont believe they did that again without Official Record Governing
Body representation?
Did they?
Monroe
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AR] Just where does space start?
> From: Rick Maschek <rickmaschek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, August 31, 2014 3:10 am
> To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Thanks Bill. A question people have asked for a long time has been where does
> space start?
> For the Air Force it had been 50 miles and many feel it is now 62 miles (100
> kilometers). Using the 50 mile standard, the RRS team reached space in 1996,
> using the 62 mile standard, CSXT likely reached space, if not the 72 miles
> they say was reached in 2004 and again last month...see below.
>
> If we are successful, I wouldn't consider us the first to reach space; as for
> first with the homebuilt part, that might be debatable but doesn't really
> matter. One could easily post other altitudes as firsts but to me the two
> that would really be 'firsts' for amateurs would be to obtain orbit and the
> second would be to escape from the earth entirely. There may soon be a team
> doing that first one shortly.
>
> Rick
>
> From GoFast 2014 Space Launch Team
>
> The GoFast 2014 rocket officially set a new world record on July 14, 2014 as
> the highest and fastest amateur rocket ever launched into space.
>
> Analysis of the data from the recovered military grade Inertial Measurement
> Unit (IMU) that flew onboard shows that the GoFast rocket reached 385,800
> feet above mean sea level (73.1 miles) and hit a top speed of 3,580 miles per
> hour. The old record held by the CSXT’s GoFast 2004 rocket was 72 miles with
> a top speed of 3,420 mph.
>
> The GoFast 2014 IMU had flown successfully on four commercial space missions
> at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico and was calibrated using
> C-Band transponder US Army radar tracking data prior to its flight into space
> on the GoFast rocket July 14, 2014. Statistical analysis of the WSMR flights
> and the GoFast 2014 launch verifies the 73.1 miles attained by the GoFast
> rocket has a variation of 0.6 miles with a confidence level of 95%.
>
> Congratulations to everyone for a job well done! Thank you so much for
> everyone’s participation and endless hours making this launch a success.
>
> GoFast 2014 list of accomplishments;
> • World record highest altitude rocket launch
> • World record fastest speed rocket launch
> • First photo taken from space onboard an amateur rocket
> • Second amateur rocket in history to reach space
>
>
>
>
> From: Bill Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AR] Re: Super Loki Dart design documents
> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:35:21 -0400
>
> Since the CSXT team has never proven their claim to have reached 72 miles;
> should you succeed and publish, you will be the first to prove that you
> reached space with a homebuilt.
> Good luck!
>
> Bill
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:51, Rick Maschek <rickmaschek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That's cool Mark. Last year when we were at White Sands for an UP Aerospace
> > launch we also investigated several sounding rockets at the missile range.
> > Two of them were the Lokis and after taking measurements we constructed a
> > similar vehicle that we are in fact testing next weekend at the FAR site in
> > California. We are hoping to get one of these variants in space 2015-2016.
> >
> >
> > Rick
> >
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