Space1 Booster Rocket & Glider

SPACE1 BOOSTER ROCKET & GLIDER
Space1 in the USA is progressing with concept, design, construction, and testing of a new booster rocket and spacecraft glider. The booster is a vertical deployment with enough diameter and mechanical mounts to support multiple arrays of surrounding gliders.

At apogee during the mission, the gliders release at the same time, maintaining gyro equilibrium to the booster, then follow glide flight paths back to earth. Circular glide paths absorb kinetic energy to reduce speed to safe levels.

Illustration: Artist concept of Space1's Booster Glider

Each glider spacecraft can support 1 or many astronauts, depending on configuration. First Envisions (tm), a division of Space1, has allocated 3 periphery gliders on one booster arranged in triequilibrium.

A reusable boost keeps space flights and missions as low cost as possible and potentially affordable to the space tourism industry.

Scaling flights are slated for summer of 2015 over the USA at Space1's Rocket Space Port.

LINKS
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2015/01/space1-links-in-january-2015.html

New USA Space1 Rocket Lab

NEW USA SPACE1 ROCKET LAB
Established recently in the USA, the new rocket lab is busy stocking up on rocket parts and supplies to assemble a total of five new rockets.

RESEARCH VEHICLE
One research vehicle among the fleet is a rocketing space shuttle that will ferry supplies, test equipment, and possible astronauts back to earth. The design originated many years ago but only now do we have working vehicles to fly.

SHUTTLE DESIGN
The shuttle design is a gliding vehicle, and does not carry volatile rocket fuel, making it reusable for more safe landings. Automatic design parameters enable the vehicle to return on its own.

ROCKETS
Other rockets range in size from four different diameter and height dimensions. The largest rockets designed appear to have heavy lift capability for multiple equipment bays or multiple astronauts.

ROBOTICS
Space1 is heavy into advanced space flight robotics. The robotics division is already vastly equipped in both Taiwan and USA locations.

LAUNCH COMPLEX
Also equipped with parts for two launch sites, the liftoff pads have varying capabilities depending on rocket size. Control panels will be spaced at safe distance from the launch rockets and towers.

ROCKET MOTORS
Highest reliability rocket motors are purchased from a reputable professional rocket motor corporation pre-made and ready for precision installation into rockets at the time of launch. A total of fourteen rocket motors are now within Space1 inventory.

These will be used for primary launches and rocket tests. Four motors in the engine lot are the most powerful ever purchased and just within affordable means at this time.

These motors require lead delivery times and special shipment procedures, and will produce the highest rocket thrust and space altitudes ever reached by Space1's fleet of rockets.

Under consideration now is the increase of rocket penetration into space by the addition of thruster boosters, that not only extend space flight duration, but offer more space tourism during the mission.

LINKS
Space1 Web Content Links in January 2015
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2015/01/space1-links-in-january-2015.html

Space1 Singapore

SPACE1 SINGAPORE
NO GUM IN SINGAPORE!
Strict country laws make space expansion more challenging in Singapore!

As shown on the maps, the relatively tiny country of Singapore is selected for space tourism expansion to this side of the world. Space1's far southern Asia expansion into Singapore continues to move forward in 2015.

Singapore flag

 

The first official Space1-Singapore meeting was held on Sunday January 11, 2015, with Space1's Singapore Advisor Master Lin Zi Lin 林紫琳 who flew from Singapore to Taiwan.

After a review of Space1 technology, the first agenda was deciding if a Singapore located spaceport is possible. The issue is extremely complex. Singapore has very strict laws and has outlawed gum and fireworks so it was decided that a continuing study is required to access all details regarding space tourism and launching rockets, thus preventing any country infringements.

Singapore is one of the world's major commercial hubs, with the fourth-biggest financial center and one of the five busiest ports. Its globalized and diversified economy depends heavily on trade, especially manufacturing, which represented 26 percent of Singapore's GDP in 2005.

In terms of purchasing power parity, Singapore has the third-highest per capita income in the world but one of the world's highest income inequalities. It places highly in international rankings with regard to education, healthcare, and economic competitiveness. Approximately 5.4 million people live in Singapore (June 2013), of which approximately two million are foreign-born.

While Singapore is diverse, ethnic Asians predominate: 75 percent of the population is Chinese, with significant minorities of Malays, Indians, and Eurasians. There are four official languages, English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil, and the country promotes multiculturalism through a range of official policies.

LINKS
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2015/01/space1-in-singapore.html

Near Space Launch Morning May 2

The clock was ticking the countdown to an early morning launch

NEAR SPACE LAUNCH ON MAY 2, 2013

Robotic flight machine at the launch site

The morning time Near Space launch was well underway by 8:30 am for this new suborbital space flight. 

The goal was to test GPS positioning hardware and software 7.2 miles altitude in Near Space above the Sea of China, and to test the new Tiny Space Telescope during the daytime, pointed at the Sun for celestial navigation positioning.

Space Administration Asian launch map with key cities

A weather front blocked viewing above 7.2 miles

At 9:30 am, observations were being recorded for altitude, temperature, spacecraft elapsed time, comparative ground speed, space imagery, compass, distance and time to reentry position.

GPS and cell phones with GPS did not work due to blocked signals. The spacecraft was never positioned where the cockpit window viewed the sun and the telescope was not useful. No fix on any sun-like celestial object was possible. Internet did not work and instruments reporting from internet failed.

Agency trucks and equipment transports

Realtime weather reporting did not work. There was no access to WiFi and Carrier Services failed.

Localized in-flight cockpit instruments, like the magnetic compass, were fully functional. iPhone localized apps were fully functional.

Magnetic Compass app fully functional

At 7.2 miles altitude, an unusual haze appeared above, blocking daytime observations of stars and planets with the telescope.

The Moon was not visible through the cockpit window (The Moon was an early morning object in Last Quarter phase and positioned at 2 am, outside the time frame of this space flight). No daytime data was collected through the telescope.

Tenuous weather above 7.2 miles

Overcast skies and a mountain range were visible during final reentry approach

Left: Near Space is seen at 7.2 miles high. Note the unusual light tenuous clouds not seen in other Near Space flights. This image is unprocessed. Usually the sky above the 6-mile mark is very clear.

Another image, shown above, has heavy processing to show the details of these light tenuous wisps of banding weather front clouds. These bands could interfere with space telescope operations causing light absorption and limiting stellar magnitude.

Looking down on the Earth, all throughout the flight, only complete cloud cover was monitored. The launch was overcast and so was the reentry. Note the special panorama image taken during reentry and final approach, showing overcast skies, haze and mist, and mountains. Landing occurred at the base of these mountains at an unspecified location.