Students performe an experiment in microgravity aboard the Airbus A300 Zero-G plane.
In The Space Review this week:
Building up a new market for suborbital spaceflight
Jeff Foust reports on an emerging space research market that proponents believe could someday be bigger than space tourism itself.
Foust also looks at last week’s hearing by the House Science and Technology Committee, which examined the potential safety of NASA’s Constellation program versus commercial alternatives. Foust wonders if committee members were asking the right questions about the future of human spaceflight.
Ares 1, the space advocacy community, and the media
Last week NASA released the latest results from the Ares 1-X test flight in October. John Jurist criticizes some space advocates and the media for misunderstanding or misrepresenting what that test, and other Ares 1 development efforts, mean for the program.
How damaging is “Climategate” to NASA?
A set of leaked emails from a UK research institute have created a controversy in some circles about the state of climate research and global warming. Taylor Dinerman wonders what implications this debate has for NASA.
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about the Ares 1-X test… it’s STILL really NOT clear why NASA defines a “success” a flight that has reached ONLY the (very low) 35 km. of altitude (or 39 km. adding the SRB inertia) while, the Shuttle SRBs reach over 45 km. (10 km. more) and the 1st stage of the Ares-1 MUST reach (at least) 55 km. of altitude (20 km. more than the 1-X) despite the SRB-5 has only 7% more power than a standard SRB, rather than (nearly) TWICE (as needed to reach nearly TWICE the altitude with the same upperstage mass)
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http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts2/058ares1dead.html
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