[AR] Re: Just where does space start?
- From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:13:10 +0100
Plausibly, space REALLY starts where the Earth's atmosphere ends.
That's the geopause/magnetosphere, which varies, but is tens of thousands
of kilometres up.
On 31 August 2014 11:10, Rick Maschek <rickmaschek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> *GoFast 2014 Space Launch TeamThe 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*
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> From: Bill Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AR] Re: Super Loki Dart design documents
> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:35:21 -0400
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> 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!
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> Bill
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:51, Rick Maschek <rickmaschek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Rick
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-Ian Woollard
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