Designing A Next-Gen Ionic Thruster! (For Flight)
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Frank
- September 24, 2022
- “High Voltage”
- “static electricity”
- “Voltage multiplier”
- “Water bending”
- Archery
- avatar
- controlling elements
- corona
- discovery
- Electronics
- Electrostatic
- explosion
- high power
- High Voltage
- Ionic wind
- Jay
- jet turbine
- lightning
- Marx generator
- Ozone
- Physics
- plasma
- Plasma Channel
- Plasma globe
- Plasma Nation
- revolver
- rocket
- science
- shoot
- shooting range
- Space
- steam powered
- target practice
- Tesla Coil
- Van Der Graaff
- Vandergraff Generator
- Water bending
A YouTuber builds a working ionic thruster. Why? I have two answers. One, why not? and Secondly, for Beltalowda! In my attempt to answer that – I built a next-gen ionic thruster, and only shocked myself about a dozen times in the process. Thank you to Steven Barret at MIT for providing his airplane footage, […]
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Why SpaceX Cares About Concrete
How does concrete stack up against rocket engines? When a launch or landing pad fails, it can be worse than if it wasn’t there at all, creating high-speed projectiles that jeopardize the safety of the vehicle and its support equipment, not to mention its crew. It’s a nice reminder that even the humblest provision here […]
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The Risky Venture of Spaceport America
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Frank
- December 31, 2019
- astronaut
- astronauts
- citizen travel
- dangerous
- delays
- Education
- Elon Musk
- experiment
- gateway
- International space station
- iss
- loren grush
- NASA
- nasa news
- New Mexico
- Risk
- risky
- rocket
- science
- science experiments
- setbacks
- Space
- space craft
- space news
- space port
- space startup
- space station
- space tourist
- space travel
- space traveling
- spaceport
- spaceport america
- SpaceX
- Startup
- THe Verge
- tourists
- truth or consequences
- Universe
- venture
- verge science
- Virgin Galactic
In the middle of the New Mexico desert lies Spaceport America, a glittering, alien structure advertised as the very first purpose-built commercial spaceport. It’s home to Virgin Galactic, a space startup that promises to send tourists into orbit as early as next year. But even if that milestone happens, it will follow years of delays, […]
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