Space1 Hexcopter Sky Rocket Pad

Space1 is working on its Hexcopter Sky Rocket Pad as a viable way to launch rockets and gain greater altitude while saving on fuel. In the conceptual design illustration, the enclosed center contains real estate for the launch pad, tower, and rocket. A fully fueled rocket is heavy, such as the ISS PIONEER and more lofting experiments will be conducted to ascertain the reliability of the system.

Space1 Drone Rocket Launch

Space1 is examining and designing a supplementary rocket system that uses a large capacity high altitude drone. In the design scenario, the drone carries the rocket and a special reduced launch pad to extreme aerospace altitude in the troposphere where it hovers and the rocket is launched vertically. Apogee = H(d) + H(r) where H(r) is the altitude of the drone and H(r) is the height gained by the rocket. The drone is a flying rocket launch pad in the sky. The large electric Space1 hexcopter kept in a hangar is used for this experimental platform and has enough lifting power to carry the rocket and a modified launcher to maximum height. In a second design, the drone is part of the rocket and flies skyward at a slower speed, whereupon it is jettisoned like a rocket stage.

Space1 Touring Clouds through the Troposphere

TOURING CLOUDS During the Near Space Program NSP conducted by Humanoido and the Big Brain, the space craft traveled up to the clouds, entered into and passed through the clouds, and emerged above on top of the clouds during a space journey through the Troposphere. Throughout various space flights, over 70 cloud images were taken for study and examination. As the cloud type can determine the altitude of a rising space craft, the observations can be very important.

Space tourists taking the Space1 safety rocket transport into space may have the opportunity to enjoy a great variety of cloud types and by memorizing their shapes, a space traveler might know the general rocket distance from the Earth when moving through the upward Troposphere journey.

LOW ALTITUDE CLOUDS
0-2kM Temperate Zone
0-2kM Tropics Zone
Stratus, Stratocumulus, Cumulus*, Towering Cumulus**, Cumulonimbus*, Towering Cumulonimbus**, Nimbostratus*, Fog
*   Can extend into medium level
** Can extend high level

MEDIUM ALTITUDE CLOUDS
2-4 kM Temperate Zone
2-7 kM Tropics Zone
Altostratus, Altocumulus, Nimbostratus*
* Can exist in low level

HIGH ALTITUDE CLOUDS
3-8 kM Temperate Zone
5-14 kM Tropics Zone
Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, Towering Cumulus*, Towering Cumulonimbus*, Contrails
* Can exist in low level

Cloud Identification During "Near Space" Flights
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/08/altitude-from-cloud-type.html

Index
http://space1usa.blogspot.tw/2015/12/space1-index_16.html