Comments on: Another company enters the smallsat rocket competition https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-company-enters-the-smallsat-rocket-competition/ Wed, 09 May 2018 09:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-company-enters-the-smallsat-rocket-competition/#comment-1051195 Wed, 09 May 2018 09:47:11 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51528#comment-1051195 Interesting story. If Rocket Crafters has figured out a viable way around previously encountered difficulties with hybrid rocket motors that would be impressive. But 200 lbf motors are not dispositive of that. Scaling up by two or three orders of magnitude will be necessary to settle that question. Of course a much more modest scale-up will suffice to launch smallsats, especially one at a time.

Also, I don’t think “new” is an accurate description of Rocket Crafters. I first heard of this outfit several years ago. The company website says its founding occurred in 2010. It has done modest-sized contract jobs for some time, including for DARPA.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-company-enters-the-smallsat-rocket-competition/#comment-1051126 Wed, 09 May 2018 03:47:19 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51528#comment-1051126 Butcher, baker, rocket man

Print me a booster fast as you can

This is what history looks like, and it’s blowing sci-fi away, not least because we’re bending tin.

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