Thomas Lee Elifritz

SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon COTS Vehicle

Countdown to a new era in spaceflight.

Fifty years late.

Update : Abort! The revolution will be televised.

http://www.libertylaunchsystems.com/

The safest launch vehicle is no launch vehicle at all.

Give me a pair of AJ26/500s I say.

Image Credit: Bill Cramer, Fence Credit: Megan Maloy (Getty Images)

It was already ten years ago that we had a Space Launch Initiative.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/sliarchitecture.html

And what happened? Nothing became of it.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/mars-is-hard/0

http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky

Highest bidder. Bid early, and often.

Dual Fuel Booster Assisted Hydrogen Cluster Approach

http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/SpaceX.pdf

Reusable Hydrocarbon Boosters – Hydrogen to the Moon and Methane to Mars
Space Exploration and Development Missions for SpaceX Launch Vehicles

New methane fueled booster engines for new fast turnaround Earth surface to low Earth orbit spaceflight missions could also be utilized as well tested Mars orbital insertion, deorbiting and landing engines, as well as primary Mars ascent and Earth return propulsion. New hydrogen powered core stages delivering methane powered Martian spacecraft can also simultaneously deliver these fully reusable core stages to low Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, or all the way to the lunar surface, which also allows the use of hyperbolic, trajectory modifying lunar flyby and gravity assist trajectories for the Martian spacecraft. The combination of these fast turnaround methane fueled engines for atmospheric boost (using as many boosters as are necessary for the mission scenario) and ground started hydrogen core stage engines for high energy upper stage orbital insertions and short term lunar missions to the volatile rich lunar polar regions – enables direct trajectories and long term cryogenic fuel storage for asteroid and Mars missions.

Prepositioning of repurposed deep space storage and transport infrastructure is the single most valuable technique that will enable great savings in cost and schedule for large planetary development programs.

ESA - European JUICE Mission to Jupiter and its Moons

Launches in 2022 and reaches Jupiter in 2030.

Wow, I hope to live to see this!

Long live space science.

Beryllium Penning Trap Quantum Simulator

Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins, Joseph W. Britton, Brian C. Sawyer, Adam C. Keith, C.-C. Joseph Wang, James K. Freericks, Hermann Uys, Michael J. Biercuk and John J. Bollinger, Nature, 2012; 484 (7395)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature10981.html

IBM Think Magazine

Religious leaders express grave concerns over these new thought developments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG-hD81o6Rs (Private Video)

The Dramatics – Whatcha See is Whatcha Get – Concord Music – 1971

http://youtu.be/yrotsEzgEpg

Ooh Child – The Five Stairsteps – Buddah Records – 1970

Large Synoptic Survery Telescope - LSST

R&D Magazine Article

http://youtu.be/Gbfnh1oVTk0

Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats – Chess – 1951

Buckaroo Bonzai Agrees. Enjoy!

Mysterious Fossilized Blob Fossil

Normally if I was still blobbing blobs, I would blob this blob in a second, but blobs are covered more than adequately by the main stream media now, so after pioneering the new field of blob physics, I’ve decided to move on. I just couldn’t resist blobbing the blob one last time, though.

If you recognize this lifeform, please contact its owner. Thank you.

Sierra Bolide - Carbonaceous Chondrite Asteroid Meteor Fragment

Hopefully they will find a whole bunch more of these!

And what a coincidence too – just in time.

And at Sutter’s Mill no less.

The universe provides.

El Dorado!

Update : 18 24 separate confirmed finds of what is now called the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall.

Sutter’s Mill meteorite fragment identification and location map :

Thermoelectric transport with electron-phonon coupling and electron-electron interaction in molecular junctions, Jie Ren, Jian-Xin Zhu, James E. Gubernatis, Chen Wang and Baowen Li, Phys. Rev. B 85, 155443 (2012).

http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v85/i15/e155443

http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5208

Results show that at low temperatures, resonances of the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, occur around the sides of resonances of electronic conductance but drop dramatically to zero at exactly these resonant points. We find ZT can be enhanced by increasing electron-phonon coupling and Coulomb repulsion, and an optimal enhancement is obtained when these two interactions are competing. Our results indicate a great potential for single molecular junctions as good thermoelectric devices over a wide range of temperatures.

This paper reveals the possibility of stunning … shocking enhancements of thermoelectric efficiency (ZT figure of merit) across a wide range of temperatures in engineered arrays of molecular junctions.

Envisat - Zombie Satellite Capture - Market Opportunity

$2.9 Billion US Dollars of Earth Remote Sensing Satellite in Sun Synchronous Orbit.

You can’t hardly beat this. What is not to like here?

Dual Fuel Booster Assisted Hydrogen Cluster Approach

I design launch vehicles and space architectures for the commercial space industry.

You can view publications on this subject http://webpages.charter.net/tsiolkovsky/.

My organization is called The Tsiolkovsky Group.

We are at lifeform.org and lifeform.net.

You are here.

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