Post by wstanford on Jan 7, 2015 18:51:00 GMT
Mr. Wickman over at Wickman Aerospace has got his SLV (small launch vehicle) up and running it looks like with some government funds.
Check this out, basically the big brother to our Daedalus:
www.wickmanspacecraft.com/slv.html
Let me tell you about Mr. Wickman. He's an AM/EX guy from way back, and interestingly enough one of my influences even a teacher. I remember getting his manual and simulation software (static/mathematically I'm guessing) back in the day and building my original business with his explainations. Wow (thinking back on it) we were tight knit back then...I mean all of us (mainly a bunch of serious enthusiasts huddled all around the original X Prize and AM/EX rocketry).
CHECK IT OUT!!! Our tax dollars at work. He can take Ammonium Nitrate, atomize it with something like Zinc Oxide or something (trying to remember how he does it) and pump out fuel grains for a solid propellant, to-orbit bird.
I soooo want to get my hands on one of these babies and put something up there real inexpensive like...even doing stuff like disbursing cremated remains or something. lol become an astronaut post-humously.
Anyways....enjoy.