SFS News: Team Prometheus Update - Quad Pod and More

N-Prize competitors Team Prometheus have made progress on several fronts during the past months. They discussed their recent progress with the Space Fellowship, Team founder Monroe Lee King Jr told the Space Fellowship that "New members and new hardware are adding steam to the Prometheus mission profile" Monroe also added that the team have the means to develop the motors for their mission to orbit and to provide launch services.

Here is an image from the latest Motor Test


The team have also gained members, Dave Hein Phd EE Propel-X has brought his Quad Pod to the team. Monroe says "This is a good starting point for our guidance systems".





This is the F-10 version of Dave Hein's "Quad Pod II" There is an H-25 version in the works

"This is the basis of the promethean guidance system and we are very excited that Dave is sharing his work with us it is a giant step forward from where we were with guidance. It is a way off from doing the job but it is a great starting platform, perfect for our kind of systems, we are keeping it as simple as possible".

Team Prometheus have also uploaded a video of a test launch, view the video Here.

Monroe also tells the Space Fellowship that Near Space Expeditions are progressing for the development of the Near Space launch platform.

David Hein, Monroe and the rest of the team are available to chat about the project in their Official Forum

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