https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/#comment-1531334 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:41:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109823#comment-1531334 It will be nice to hear how the aerospike performs in flight.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/#comment-1531288 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:47:31 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109823#comment-1531288 Don’t forget Operation Crossbow—the footage of that was used in The Incredible Hulk episode PROMETHEUS, and in Battlestar Galactica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=PPIYEO5cP0E

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/#comment-1531232 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:03:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109823#comment-1531232 Operation Hydra
July 8, 1943
The Raid on Peenemünde
https://youtu.be/fIwB6rwzXsI
7:40

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/#comment-1531224 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:15:28 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109823#comment-1531224 I recall Garvey Spacecraft worked on an aerospace engine for rockets. Not sure if they ever had a successful flight. Their website hasn’t been updated since 2015.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/polaris-completes-first-inflight-ignition-of-its-aerospike-engine/#comment-1531202 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:49:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109823#comment-1531202 Not the first experience Peenemünde has with aerospace, but presumably, Polaris is not designed to crash.

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