Fuzzy Aerospace

  • Beal Aerospace Technologies

    Nomenclature GTO – Geostationary Transfer Orbit GEO – Geostationary Orbit LEO – Low Earth Orbit LITVC – Liquid Injection Thrust Vector Control GEA – Gesellschaft für Entstaubungsanlagen As a hobby Andrew Beal read about aerospace in 1995 and founded Beal Aerospace in 1997 to develop a small launch vehicle called BA-1 (1). Originally the vehicle…

  • SWORDS and Similar Vehicles

    This article presents a review of the “Soldier Warfighter Operationally Responsive Deployer for Space” (SWORDS) and similar vehicles developed at least in part by KT Engineering with novel modular nozzle and propellant tank design configurations. Animation by Fuzzy Aerospace depicting, from left to right, MPLS, RSLV-S, the 2012 design of SWORDS, the 2013 design of…

  • Mockingbird SSTO and ASTRID

    Introduction On November 21 1994 Jordin T Kare presented a rocket concept called “Mockingbird” while working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or LLNL. This is a video about that but first, context about what led up to it. SDI On March 23, 1983 Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI program which…