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January 12, 2015

Airborne 01.12.15: SpaceX Docks, P85 Flight Tests, WAI Remembers Pioneers

Also: Expert Says FAA UAV Rules 'Absurd', Eagle 407HP, UAS Guidance For Cops, UAV Photog Sues, HAI Excellence

Even from up the Florida coast here at ANN-HQ, the latest launch of a Falcon 9 v1.1 drove into the night sky for all to see. The successful launch, on Saturday, put the CRS-5 mission on a solid footing for a rendezvous and delivery of its payload early this morning. The rumble of a radial has been replaced with the growl of a V8 in the kit built P85.
The P85 is a derivation of Altitude Group’s Radial Rocket airframe, with changes to accommodate a V8 firewall forward powerplant package utilizing the proven, high performance LS series of V8 engines. As of a few weeks ago, the P85 made its first flight and is now in experimental phase 1 flight testing. Three w

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Ball Aerospace Employees Named Associate Fellows By AIAA

Inducted At 53rd AAIA Sciences Meeting January 5

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. employees John Troeltzsch and Christopher Zeller have been selected as associate fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Troeltzsch and Zeller were inducted with other new associate fellows from around the world at the 53rd AIAA sciences meeting on January 5, 2015.

Launch Scheduled For March 27 Aboard A Soyuz Spacecraft

NASA will hold two briefings Thursday, Jan. 15 at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, to preview the upcoming Expedition 43 mission aboard the International Space Station and the launch of the crew embarking on a yearlong mission.

Target Wise, They ‘Nailed It’ – Now, On To Greater Challenges

By ANN Space Correspondent, Wes Oleszewski Standing on the upper deck of my home and looking out across Chesapeake Bay toward the Atlantic, I spotted a tiny orange pinpoint of light screaming across the clear winter sky. Traveling from south to north, and elevated just about where a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) should be (back in the days when we had a shuttle), I was sure that I was watching the SpaceX Falcon 9 boosting the Cargo Resupply (CRS) 5 mission. Freezing my tail off at just before five o’clock in the morning, I did my best to keep my eye on that pinpoint of orange light. Suddenly it flashed bright white!