Updates Blue Origin New Shepard News and Updates

[Cairan]

Sure I have. When everybody mutates into a SpaceX fanboy, somebody has to keep the eyes open. And of course, who does not remember the first Falcon 1 launch? :lol:

I do ... I also remember the first Ariane 5 launch :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Maybe they can? 42.7'' (~108 cm) is 35% larger than the largest window of the ISS cupola (80 cm diameter circle)

During my Googling I found this:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/hsf_research/Climate_change_ISS_presentations/Cupola_Deloo.pdf

The pressure window on the circular pane of the ISS cupola is 1.45 inches thick, fused silica glass. It has a redundant identical pressure window layered with it, plus an impact pane on the outside and a scratch pane on the inside. Nearly 4 inches of glass in total. That's a heavy window! The smaller limb windows are only 1 inch thick but with similar redundancy and protective layers.

The ISS is pressurized to 14 psia, so nearly full atmospheric pressure is applied to those windows.

 

[Andy44]

Maybe you should build the whole capsule pressure shell out of the window material instead...

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe you should build the whole capsule pressure shell out of the window material instead...

Would not be that favorable. There are some glass variants, that get stronger when you compress them, but all glass reacts pretty poor to tensile forces. You would need to pretension it.

 

[boogabooga]

Maybe you should build the whole capsule pressure shell out of the window material instead...

People that fly in glass spaceships shouldn't throw...oh wait. :lol:

 

[Andy44]

Would not be that favorable. There are some glass variants, that get stronger when you compress them, but all glass reacts pretty poor to tensile forces. You would need to pretension it.

Could you use something besides glass? Some kind of plastic, maybe?

Just wondering. A capsule is kind of like a bathyscaphe but with tension force on the hull instead of compression, and those things have tiny thick windows.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Could you use something besides glass? Some kind of plastic, maybe?

Just wondering. A capsule is kind of like a bathyscaphe but with tension force on the hull instead of compression, and those things have tiny thick windows.

A hybrid of a HIAD and a Zorb? :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Could you use something besides glass? Some kind of plastic, maybe?

Just wondering. A capsule is kind of like a bathyscaphe but with tension force on the hull instead of compression, and those things have tiny thick windows.

Had thick windows. There are some modern designs around that have their pressure vessel nearly completely made of glass.

http://tritonsubs.com/submersibles/triton-360003/#

 

[Gerdih]

Would not be that favorable. There are some glass variants, that get stronger when you compress them, but all glass reacts pretty poor to tensile forces. You would need to pretension it.

Internal pretension? Hope no one hits the glass

 

[boogabooga]

So yeah, this happened:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-founder-bezos-unveils-rocket-144929128.html

Someone needs to tell Bezos that the eccentric billionaire that starts a rocket company gig has already been taken.

 

[Urwumpe]

So yeah, this happened:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-founder-bezos-unveils-rocket-144929128.html

Someone needs to tell Bezos that the eccentric billionaire that starts a rocket company gig has already been taken.

There have always been two... VHS and Betamax.... :lol:

 

[Donamy]

The more the merrier.:thumbup:

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There have always been two... VHS and Betamax.... :lol:

VHS won, but now they're both gone.

 

[Fabri91]

Amazon prime one-day delivery isn't quite fast enough!

 

[Kyle]

This is genuinely exciting news. More commercial LV competition is always welcome plus we get to see LC-36 back in action! I wonder what pad they'll choose for landings.

 

[Notebook]

New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34909713

The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship.

Intended eventually to carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday with no-one aboard.

 

[GLS]

Seems to have a better control system than their competitors... :shifty:

 

[Notebook]

Remarkable control, makes my self-balancing robot look pathetic, mind you it is pathetic.
Good luck to them!

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Historic Rocket Landing - YouTube
Seems to have a better control system than their competitors... :shifty:

At least, it is a lot more conservative in design than the SpaceX version. But then, it is also a few Mach numbers slower.

 

[Ravenous]

The booster stage landed in one piece, but its lower end certainly needs a fresh coat of paint

 

[RisingFury]

That's a nice landing, but it's significantly easier than landing the SpaceX F9 first stage. For one, this isn't hauling the entire weight of the second stage and payload to space. Only itself and the capsule. So the empty weight is more comparable to the full weight. Makes things A LOT easier.

Remarkable control, makes my self-balancing robot look pathetic, mind you it is pathetic.

Well, the larger things get, the slower they oscillate. There's a reason you can balance a broom on your finger, but have difficulty doing the same with a pencil. Your robot suffers from the same problem.