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Message 590793 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:28:57 UTC


So what is an orbital airship? Proposed by JP Aerospace, the orbital airship concept is a three-staged process which includes a conventional airship, a permanent sky base, followed by a helium-filled, solar-powered ascender unit that slowly accelerates horizontally until it reaches escape velocity. Here’s a look into the crotch of the Y-shaped ascender unit:




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Message 590797 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:32:19 UTC
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SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB: SPDV) has reported the financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2006. The Company reported its 14th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, and 11th consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA, both enhanced by its acquisition of Starsys Research Corporation on January 31, 2006. Starsys is a design, engineering, and manufacturing company for mechanical and electromechanical subsystems and components for spacecraft, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.




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Message 590800 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:34:40 UTC


Private ventures vie to service space station





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Message 590802 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:37:37 UTC


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Message 590803 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:39:10 UTC

New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions



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Message 590806 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:41:10 UTC

Spaceships Made from Plastic


Artist's concept of humans set off to Mars

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Message 590808 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:43:08 UTC

Solar boiler concept



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Message 590813 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:47:38 UTC

Space Station concepts



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Message 590815 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:49:12 UTC

Giant Slingshot: New Way to Space?



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Message 590817 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 0:52:13 UTC






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Message 590827 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 1:10:36 UTC - in response to Message 590815.  

Giant Slingshot: New Way to Space?


Nevermind the Centrifugal Force....

Surprised you didn't mention Orion, and I mean Project Orion...
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Message 591155 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 15:31:39 UTC - in response to Message 590827.  

Giant Slingshot: New Way to Space?


Nevermind the Centrifugal Force....

Surprised you didn't mention Orion, and I mean Project Orion...






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Message 591157 - Posted: 23 Jun 2007, 15:34:21 UTC
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Message 592188 - Posted: 24 Jun 2007, 23:55:45 UTC

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Message 592189 - Posted: 24 Jun 2007, 23:57:42 UTC





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Message 592190 - Posted: 25 Jun 2007, 0:00:27 UTC
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One proposed alternative to the use of combustion propellants for future space travel is solar sails that would enable solar winds to propel a spacecraft away from Earth and toward its destination.

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Message 592191 - Posted: 25 Jun 2007, 0:03:48 UTC





Habitat of the future?
Part of a torus-shaped space colony proposed for the future by members of a study group. Farms would raise food for 100,000 inhabitants, while rotation at 1 rpm would provide artificial gravity.

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Message 592232 - Posted: 25 Jun 2007, 1:40:40 UTC


A traveling-wave engine to power deep space travel



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Message 592234 - Posted: 25 Jun 2007, 1:44:36 UTC
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wave engine to power



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Message 592235 - Posted: 25 Jun 2007, 1:48:33 UTC

PULSE DETONATION WAVE ENGINES



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