24 Aug
2009
24 Aug
'09
3:11 p.m.
Much of the debate on the board here arises from our common desire to see the launching of satellites with a larger footprint.
For what it is worth, this semester I will finally get a student to work on the 40 year old AMSAT idea of a water rocket. (Carry water to orbit and use solar power to electrolizie the wate to H2 and O2 and then burn those in a thruster to raise the orbit of a cubesat.
Mostly the goal is to get from the very low (short lived) LEO to a higher LEO to get longer life, but it will be fun to get this project going again. I had a working model about a dozen years ago, but it eventually blew up.. Now we will get another one built probably...
Bob