New N-Prize Team! Prometheus

New Team joins the race for orbit:
This is no joke check this out at www.nprize.com! A very cool site made by Pictureandword some really great graphics! Come by and support us if you really are interested in space! follow the link to our website and get involved! It cost nothing! zip! nata! Im not promoting myself I'm promoting SPACE, you know look up! Take a look at the google group for the N-Prize too! Looking at these sites will help us get to space! Get involved tell someone you know about it, make some noise if you wanna go into space and not just hear about someone that did!

That will be us.
Monroe Lee King Jr.
Represenative
Team Prometheus
Today's the day! We go into space!
“I see only my objective – the obstacles must give wayâ€

Goodluck Monroe, any more details?

also the N-Prize site is http://www.n-prize.com

Thanks

Rob

Thanks Rob
Yes I need some help designing this Light gas gun and I need it yesterday! I need one that weigh's 7 pounds and can launch a 19.98g projectile the size of a ping pong ball (in near vaccum) to a speed of 4.5m/sec with a 1 meter barrel! Help me design this thing and we'll name it after you. Hurry up! I cant do everything.

You wanna go into space or what?
You can do it! I need your help, let's show these guy's what were made of dont make me beg you to do what you were born to do! You know who you are, your an explorer!

As thay say the Devil is in the details:

We have a launch comming up! To near space. We have to catch up with our competitors. We plan to do some interesting things! Visit our website and see whats comming.

Rob
Did I see you are a member of the N-Prize google group?

There is an N-Prize group on google groups I encourage every on to join! http://groups.google.com/group/n-prize?hl=en You can catch the latest action there! Thank you for the responce! We need all the help we can get just stoping by helps. We are getting stronger everyday now thanks to you!

Monroe

Yeah i am a member, i speak to Paul fairly often. I should be at the n-Prize meeting when we sort a date out! Should be fun! great lot of guys!

Thanks Rob,
I thought that was you! Awsome! I hope to attend via Netmeeting as I dont see a trip to the UK just yet. We need more members and researchers still everyone is welcome to join in on the fun! We even get some good original space jokes going from time to time, Paul is a riot!

so, info on this test flight coming up?

Thanks for asking Rob,
We just gained 5 new team members! We are planing to launch a Near Space Expedition On October 31 2008 8:00 am CST With a water recovery in the gulf of mexico. The launch site is the old 1982 Matagorda Island Launch site. We are atempting to Reopen a Launch Base there, it is an execellent place to establish safe opperations.
We will continue to post updates on the near space expeditions there are 3 planed. The Launch Clock is up and running for our attempt at winning the N-Prize and we are at T-222 days 40min. 10sec. and counting! We have team members working on the Mission T-Shirts and our website! Things are changing daily so stop in and keep up!

Monroe, any images to share of your work so far?

Rob,
Yes I do! but Im not a wizard at figuring out how to Post them here or on our website I'm new to all that. But I do have help on the way! And thay will be going up at our current site http://sites.google.com/site/teamprometheusnprize/
I have done all of the work so far but a new team member is taking over and setting up a proper .com and all that for us Like I said it's changing everyday right now! I'm wooped but excited! Im being able to delagate some of this work! In fact I'm going to take a break and watch some Stargate SG-1 season 9 and escape for a couple hours.

Would anyone know of a good reffrence on the web that gives detail about the guidance system of thr german V-2 rockets? Possiably about the graphite vanes in the exhaust?

Monroe

Try
www.v2rocket.com

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/others/reference.html

If anything the moderators of that site might be able to point you in the right direction.

Also the Redstone used exhaust vanes, so maybe look into that, I know the Smithsonian has acrhives on all kinds of things, don't know whether they would give out guidance info but it may be worth a try, send them an email they might have abit of info on the v2 and redstone.


Iain
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http://kiwi2space.blogspot.com

Armadillo used vanes a while back. See their news updates from April and May, 2004.

http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/A ... /Home/News

However the switched to gimballing later.