Humanoido at SPACE1 has invented the fantastic SPACE1 Fresnel Rocket Recovery Device RRD - a new method to isolate the position of the returning rocket and minimize landing distance from the launch site. The device saves millions of dollars per mission and overall represents a new device with a potential billion dollar space industry. The story in Humanoido's own words...
Guest Editorial Story by Humanoido, Founder & CEO of SPACE1
This good news story was inspired by a combination of events and one at the local supermarkets. I put the design onto my cel phone and showed it to the store clerk who recognized the mathematical pattern and correspondingly produced the material I was looking for. I requested three, and she could see the light in my eyes and said there was no charge for the said items!
I had this sparked imaginative idea for a recovery design that would deploy upon the beginning of the rocket recovery phase, after it reached aerodynamic return space apogee and it was time for tourists to return home. However, tourists don't want to swim home from the waves of the Pacific Ocean, or walk home from the Siberian waste land. There had to be a better way of returning space craft back to their original points of origin. Conventional parachutes are problematic with or without any wind and often end up drifting the rocket, sending it miles away from the original launch site.
— the device saves millions of dollars and overall represents a new potential billion dollar industry —
Landing off site could be dangerous, ending up in housing districts on top of a house or business structure, in a lake, river or ocean location with strong brusque wind and fast water currents to carry the rocket out to sea or worse yet, sink it to the bottom beneath strong waves, land in groves of trees and forest regions, on the side of a mountain, or in urban areas onto highways, railroad tracks, or crash into tall skyscrapers. Believe it or not, the special modern technology flat indices bag has a perfect design that has inspired me to design something which I have named the Space1 Fresnel Rocket Recovery Device RRD. My invention is now the only one in existence proved out by the research program.
— if we can nail the rocket return flow without complicated electronics,
telemetry, guidance, equipment, and/or GPS, the cost will immediately
come down by millions of dollars —
It's cut like a massive vehicular Fresnel lens with the center nodal point closed and the sides acting like a series of regulating venting navigational connective conduit current interference rings with refractive indices in effect, only instead of using waves of light it uses waves of air flow. Like the defining effects of the Fresnel, it undergoes the physics of both constructive and destructive interference of wave form analysis. This induces a pure guidance alignment of nodal lines from the physics of the interactions.
Of course bagging was never intended for that purpose. It's sole purpose was as coffee coolant and a hands off approach to avoid skin burns. Fresnel deals with light. However, the efficacious bag is only designed to hold your hot coffee cup and provide some ventilation in the most simplistic of terms. The final complexity of the RRD will let air pressure through in all the right places, "refractively tempered," and will promote the delta X regulation in a scaleable Z dimension while minimizing the delta X drift. This is exactly what was historically needed in the space program, however their large parachutes often mandated recovery in vast ocean seas or at very remote Siberian land sites, where a large flat empty expanses exist to accommodate the approximate point of space craft return.
The RRD ensures return vehicles do not end up drifting many miles off course, and therefore can help to initiate a recovery close or at the point of launch. If we can nail the rocket return flow without complicated electronics, telemetry, guidance, equipment, and/or GPS, the cost will immediately come down by millions of dollars. Cost savings go directly to the space consumer, space tourists. It looks like we have achieved this goal and this has become a billion dollar invention that SPACE1 can sell as a modern aerodynamic product for spacecraft systems. Of course this will require new invented special formulated deployment technology as well so it initiates at a time that "recovery operations begin." Tests will begin immediately on the system and I will manufacture three systems, each for implementation in the PIONEER HEAVY Rocket. Not only does the RRD add a layer of convenience and revolutionize our own rocket technology, but in terms of affordability it puts us far ahead of the race to open up new frontier vistas of space tourism.
Fresnel lenses consist of a series of concentric grooves etched into plastic. A Fresnel lens replaces the curved surface of a conventional optical lens with a series of concentric grooves. These contours act as individual refracting surfaces, bending parallel light rays to a common focal length. As a result, a Fresnel lens, while physically narrow in profile, is capable of focusing light similar to a conventional optical lens but has several advantages over its thicker counterpart. Source: EO
