Comments on: Space Access relaunches http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Jim Hillhouse http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/comment-page-1/#comment-435833 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:28:05 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/#comment-435833 Peter is right–this will not work. Anyone with a MSE would spot that.

]]> By: Personal Spaceflight » Space Access: not just a space tourism company http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/comment-page-1/#comment-226267 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:20:14 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/#comment-226267 […] follow-up to our earlier coverage of the re-launch of Space Access LLC: A Corpus Christi, Texas TV station reports that the company’s plans include an “an […]

]]> By: Peter http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/comment-page-1/#comment-224487 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:09:52 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/#comment-224487 Lockheed’s Skunkworks have been trying to build a hypersonic aircraft for years. (of course, for all we know they did and it’s TOP SECRET). Still, the SR-71 only went mach 3 but required an all titanium airframe with exotic metals here and there to keep it from melting. It also leaked fuel on the ground because they never found a sealer that could withstand the heat so it would take off with full fuel, leaking most of it while accelerating to mach 3 for just a few minutes to get warm enough to seal up the tank, then reduce to subsonic and meet up with an inflight refueler to fill the tank back up. A pilot only had about ten minutes to hook up with the refueler after slowing down… otherwise he’d run out of fuel and have to land dead stick… Many a pilot washed out of the program for this.

SS1 only reached mach 3 just as it was leaving the atmosphere (and just returning) but this vehicle is going to skim the atmosphere. At mach 7 there is insufficient air above 160,000 no matter how big the intake is. Aerodynamic surfaces would be useless above 150,000. Since space is legally set at 328,000 the vehicle would have to fly a parabolic trajectory flying out of the atmosphere at mach 7 at a 45 degree angle.

Hey if they can do it I’ll all for it but hypersonic vehicles are a challenge that Lockheed and Boeing have been working on and have been scared of for some time. If they can do it then it’ll be useful as a long range transport too like the Concorde.

]]> By: Jeff Foust http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/comment-page-1/#comment-224362 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:23:44 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/#comment-224362 Randy: it appears they adjusted the price during the day Friday. When the site launched Thursday, and early Friday morning, the listed price was $7,200.

]]> By: Randy Campbell http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/comment-page-1/#comment-224314 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:55:39 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/12/21/space-access-relaunches/#comment-224314 According to the SA package website the price is $3600 per person based on double occupancy not $7200 just FYI :O)
http://www.spaceaccess.com/package.php

Randy

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