Showing posts with label cube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cube. Show all posts

Friday, June 28, 2019

Space1 Lunar Orbiter Flyby Cube

Moon Cube
from the SPACE1 Lunar Polar Orbiter Flyby

This is a Space1 processed result with photos from the lunar orbiter flyby put on the three facing sides of a three dimensional cube.

Processing at the Pacific Ocean SPACE1 Space Processing Lab & Center for Spacecraft Data Analysis.

All six photos are a sequential part of the Moon South Pole flyby and hold additional detail that can be extracted by processing and reconstruction.

Friday, September 14, 2018

SPACE1 Rocket Lifeboat

The lifeboat concept is a real design for SPACE1, encompassing the mini shuttle that can be flown home from station keeping. It can also serve as a glider from Tropospheric altitudes, and as an emergency evac. Another concept is the cube, as seen in the illustration, derived from fictional sources with the features listed. The life boat is a space cube that can return astronauts outside of the rocket. The space cube is not aerodynamic and is designed for space. Flying it depends on retro rockets and/or modern compass gyro for orientations. Plus, cubes need return heat shielding and ways to slow reentry speed.