And remember, children,
Never return to a firework after it's been lit!
LOHAN rocket motor igniter goes pop at 20,000m
Fans of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission will know that the issue of getting a rocket motor to fire at altitude has given our Vulture 2 spaceplane team plenty of sleepless nights. Click here for a bigger version of the LOHAN graphic Last year, we constructed the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude …
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Thursday 26th September 2013 10:00 GMT Ralph B
After LOHAN
Once LOHAN has been completed, the next step for the Special Project Bureau will obviously be to implement GPS-guided autonomous landing of the aircraft at a pre-defined location. That'll save The Reg crew a lot of trekking through the landscape to recover stuff.
Of course, it'll also give The Reg a balloon launched cruise missile capability.
So, not just "biting the hand that feeds IT", but also targetting IT with explosive payloads.
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Thursday 26th September 2013 12:16 GMT Ralph B
@Ragarath Re: After LOHAN
By George, you're right!
Although I can't recall hearing much about this GPS guidance since then. It's all been trusses and high-altitude rocket ignition. What's going on in that area, Reg?
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Thursday 26th September 2013 10:28 GMT Gareth 7
What about the otherway round?
Last time I was in china (using state run dial-up) the reason I couldn't access many websites sites I wanted to wasn't so much down to outbound firewall rules in China, it was inbound access from Chinese registered IP address being blocked on the sites I was trying to access that was the problem. After decades of malicious attacks, western administrators are pretty wary of Chinese registered IP address ranges.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
