An alien drive

X130B-Spear 01 The X130B was a classified project. At least the drive was. This new linear aerospike design was directly derived from some of the A51 maneuvering systems but then enlarged. Jeb boosted the latest airframe off the runway. Similar to the Champ, the Spear was designed to test a number of engine configurations. This […]

A thaw in space

C017E Charon Heavy 07 was launched for the second time. Rather than advertising spacecraft reusability, KOS was now calling it “flight-proven” and KSC liked that idea. And so 07 flew again. Carrying the relief crew to UKSS. Katerny would be in command of this mission. The engineer was Valwig and Elifal and Fjalarr would continue […]