November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... Space (Comisión Nacional del Espacio Exterior, CONEE), on 31 August 1962. CONEE was an office of the Secretariat of Communications... the Moon. Forerunner to AEM, Mexico’s National CONEE was devoted to doing experimental work in rocketry, ...
June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
...systems onboard require power supply. This is provided by an onboard battery system located in the drag shield nose cone next to the capsule sensor and diagnostics electronics. Deceleration test device at 40 percent scale from approximately 12 meters...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... Press, New York, NY 2009 3 O’Brien, T., and Lewis, M., Rocket-Based Combined-Cycle Engine Integration on an Osculkating Cone Waverider, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2001 pp. 1117-1123 4 Hallion, Richard P., The Hypersonic...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... spacecraft and pull the two spacecraft together via a tether. An alternative is to locate and ‘grab’ the thrust cone at the rear of the spacecraft. The servicing spacecraft can then take over station-keeping, orbital realignment...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... mechanism to capture and dock with client LAEs. The MEV carries a ‘stinger’ that uses the LAE as a ‘cone to capture’, using the same simple and straightforward approach to docking utilised as far back as the Gemini programme...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
.... NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft in an assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The back shell (grey cone) and heat shield (brown disc) form a protective enclosure around the stowed InSight lander. This is one...
