I started my company as a result of my involvement in formula and GT car
racing and support from my automotive industry sponsors at the time. Years
ago I was approached by one of the Detroit automakers for an automotive,
rocket thruster concept. I believe they had been discussing the proposal
with Korey Kline previously. There was a test and development protocol to
characterize wind gust behavior of cars and trucks. The test procedure
involves driving the vehicle past a bank of large, high speed fans. The
thruster concept was to equip the test vehicles with a series of
throttleable, start/stop hybrid rockets in order to simulate vehicle
reaction forces. It never went anywhere.
At first glance I'm very skeptical about Mr Musk's plan here for all the
obvious reasons. I'm wondering if it's another press release to boost stock
attention. One that may have technical issues that the layperson may not
appreciate. In response to some of his space travel plans and claims of
late, there appears to be significant criticism by members of the aerospace
engineering profession in this regard. The old saying, "when the flag drops,
the bull shit stops, real race cars don't have doors" comes to mind. Then
again, maybe Elon and company have developed technology the rest of us may
have overlooked.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
President/CEO
Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
<http://www.cesaronitech.com/> http://www.cesaronitech.com/
(941) 360-3100 x101 Sarasota
(905) 887-2370 x222 Toronto
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Galejs, Robert - 1007 - MITLL
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:17 AM
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Subject: [AR] Tesla Thruster Specs?
Tesla appears to be planning some sort of cold gas thruster option for their
new roadster model.
. See https://insideevs.com/news/350682/tesla-roadster-spacex-thrusters/ for
example.
. but I can't find anything definitive about what these thrusters are
planned to look like. On one car enthusiast Facebook group I subscribe to,
someone was claiming that Tesla was planning to put ten 400 lb thrusters
around the vehicle which would be capable of firing for 90 seconds, which
sounds silly just thinking about the mass of nitrogen required.
Does anyone here have any information/informed-speculation they could share
about these potential Tesla thrusters?
Thanks,
Robert