Graham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 28

drove for nine hours today.

now sat in a hotel room in Aberdeen, watching old BPS Space videos.

Show threadAndrew ZonenbergFeb 28

@gsuberland enjoy the bepis

I wonder what his next project after the karman line program will be.

There's two obvious options: cubesat or a full orbital launch vehicle program. But both are likely beyond YouTube channel budget

Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 28
@azonenberg moon landing
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergFeb 28
@gsuberland LEO first, baby steps
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 28
@azonenberg YOLO (yeet only to lunar orbit)
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergFeb 28
@gsuberland me and a friend a while back did some rough calculations. With reasonable state of the art liquid propellants (RP-1 and LOX or so) and engine Isp values and a two stage design, if you just wanted to put a cubesat in LEO and didn't care about being commercially viable wrt payload capacity, IIRC you could build a launch vehicle roughly the volume of a 40ft shipping container (but slightly taller and skinnier)
Show threadAndrew Zonenberg
@gsuberland California youtuber phones the Vandenberg public affairs number to ask how much renting a pad for a weekend is
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