Timeline for How was the Stabilo crewed re-entry vehicle supposed to work? A tractor engine with four nozzles?
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| Dec 29, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | user20636 | I still say they're good at building rockets, but I recognise the ambiguity in that people might think I was saying the build good rockets... and the sarcasm about their boiler rocket didn't come through at all. | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 1:23 | comment | added | uhoh | @ChristopherJamesHuff speaking of big launch batteries Are LiPo batteries more suitable for 1st stage electric power than Li-ion batteries? is currently unanswered. | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 1:17 | comment | added | uhoh | @ChristopherJamesHuff I was totally disoriented for a moment! Where I live the internet ads are often game-related, so I thought that this was the leaky test stand i.sstatic.net/eBK87.jpg then the real video started and I still felt like I was looking at an animation. After a while the greater reality of what is (and isn't) being shown sunk in. Thanks! | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 1:06 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | @uhoh here: youtu.be/IUE2v9mNgIQ?t=161 | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 0:59 | comment | added | uhoh | @ChristopherJamesHuff is there video? :-) | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 0:57 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | Building a lot of them hasn't made them good at building them. They can't even run their steam rocket above 1.85 bar (no, I didn't put the decimal in the wrong place) on the test stand because its tank leaks, and what comes out is a weak spray of steam and liquid water that barely makes the vehicle bounce in its suspending cables. They launch infrequently because their designs and fabrication are both incompetent. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | user20636 | I think you mean ".... than they are at launching rockets" @ChristopherJamesHuff they've built quite a few.... But I'm sure their latest water boiling aerospike rocket will launch real soon now | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 22:35 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | Stabilo did refer to passive stability due to use of tractor engines (with the claim that towing a mass on a cable magically made it work). They even named it the "Popescu-Diaconu stabilization method", and hyped it up quite a bit early on. They're better at getting investors to give them money than they are at building rockets. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 20:40 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | user2705196 | Maybe it'd be better to phrase the question "how was X supposed to work?" rather then "how did X work?" given that it seems to have never actually launched. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 15:06 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | The propellant tanks store peroxide, not steam. The decomposition occurs in the combustion chamber, and the exhaust won’t condense until it’s well out of the nozzle. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 14:33 | history | edited | uhoh |
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| Apr 2, 2017 at 15:52 | comment | added | uhoh | @OrganicMarble Yikes - isn't the engine just steam from Peroxide decomposition? So much for simplicity! | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | Organic Marble | From what I can tell none of the tests even lit the engine. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | uhoh | @OrganicMarble do you mean the system failed in some way, or that the project ended without going anywhere further? | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 15:31 | comment | added | Organic Marble | I don't think it did work. They appear to have dropped this approach in favor of other speculative designs. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 9:10 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2017 at 8:48 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | Thrust at the top doesn't give any stability advantage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy space.stackexchange.com/questions/9682/… | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 8:38 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
