The United States Air Force and Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) completed development and demonstration of a new low cost space launch vehicle for launching small satellites using surplus Minuteman II rocket motors melded with commercial launch vehicle technology. The Orbital Suborbital Program Space Launch Vehicle (OSPSLV, aka OSP Minotaur) successfully achieved all mission objectives w...

Code Rocket is a support tool for software developers which allows them to perform the detailed design of a software system and produce program code simultaneously. It integrates with existing development environments to allow developers to visualize program code during code construction and code maintenance. Code Rocket supports other project stakeholders, including nonprogrammers, by providin...

A quick turnaround Sub-Orbital Student Experiment Module sounding rocket experiment has been designed and built to initiate the Old Dominion University wireless spacecraft bus project for the Mid Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology. The sounding rocket was launched on the 8 of June 2006 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. This wireless sounding rocket experime...

Simulation research on the launch process of a ship-borne multiple launch rocket system is studied in this paper. First, the power spectrum density of the ship’s motion is calculated based on ocean wave energy spectrum, and the movement spectrums of the ship’s random motion are calculated. Then, the model of shipborne rocket launcher system is built by virtual prototype technology. The launch p...

Sounding rocket programs for upper atmospheric research (UAR) commenced at Woomera in 1957, with the British Skylark project and the Anglo-Australian HARP rockoon program. Shortly afterwards, the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) inaugurated its own sounding rocket program with the first successful Australian-built sounding rocket, Long Tom, developed from surplus British motors. This resear...

The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in food has provoked a great concern about the presence of MRSA in associated foodstuff. Although MRSA is often detected in various retailed meat products, it seems that food handlers are more strongly associated with this type of food contamination. Thus, it can be easily postulated that any food could be contaminated with thi...

| In an earlier report, I pointed out that a bilayer lm, one of whose sides was made of-emitting radioactive atoms, would act as a \rocket." A 3-stage alpha rocket could reach, e.g., speeds of 0:0025c in a few hundred years. (1) I now describe a simple variant I call the \alpha-electric rocket." It uses alpha rays to charge a capacitor which powers an ion gun. If it works, it should be able to ...