Spin Launcher nearly finished!

Brian has nearly finished the spin launcher! I have a video of it in action I may upload later! Great Work Brian!

Ground Station Construction

Pulled out the old Dish and began reassembling it. Making progress toward our tracking system preparing for the satellite test coming up!

Final Version of Satellite Prototype #1

This is Prototype Satellite #1 from Team Prometheus! Roger Harkess finished it off and is sending it here for launch! Great job Roger! And I must say he did it rather rapidly congratulations and Thank you!

First Prometheus Balloon!

Wow! What a day! Stewart Lilley designed and made the gore patterns and an ingenuous method for fabricating a zero pressure balloon! Shown here inflated with a hair dryer! Who say's you cant make your own balloons? This one was easy! Next we test it with Hydrogen from our own generator!

More Spin Launcher Progress!

Look at Brian GO!

Better Pictures

Some marginaly better pictures with same camera.

Dave's Spin Launch Animation

Great Job Dave!

Frednet Lander Progress!

There is a spacecraft in our shop! The Frednet lander takes shape with it's skin on. Waiting now for landing gear specs. I am about to cast the Gimbal mount for the main engine from Alum. and work on the guidance system. We are hoping for some more help from Frednet for the differental throttling thrusters and guidance system.

More Liquid Fuel Engine Progress!

I made more progress with the engine! the combustion chamber and the cooling chamber now fit together! Next, the injector plate! Oops have to flair the cooling chamber first but we are getting there. Sorry about the crapy focus the auto focus on this camera is not the greatest. New camera on the way though.

More Launcher Progress!

Wow, Brian's not fooling around! Lots of progress!

Tiny Satellite Prototype!

Roger Harkess has completed a prototype for the N-Prize Satellite and yep, thats a dime! More details to follow including some real Specs. Way to go Roger!

GOX/Propane Test Engine Progress

I got a lot done on the engine today I'm bushed.

GOX/Propane Motor

Simple drawing of the motor I'm building. I started flairing the end of the combustion chamber today. Making slow progress here but we are making some.

Spin Launcher Progress!

Brian Beckius has made great progress on the Spin Launcher test setup! Brian and Rodger are new members of Team Prometheus both former Propell-X members along with Dave Hien. Rodger is working on a test satellite transmitter and we should see something from him over the next few days. Welcome to the Team guy's!

Hydrogen Generator works!

Spinning Launcher Test

Brian has started construction of the spinning launcher for balloon launches from high altitudes where the air is thin. There will be no fins on this rocket!

Hydrogen Genarator

Here is the materials to make our test Hydrogen Genarator. The aluminum swarf from the SS2S parts some Lye and PVC pipe. We will let you know how it works!

Prometheus Vehicals

The Truck was Modified by Stew Lilley and now runs on cooking oil or Diesel fuel there are about 600 gal. Of fuel stored here (Cooking oil) smells like french fries and makes me hungry every time it gets fired up! Starts on Diesel then gets switched to cooking oil. The truck carry's about 160 gal. of fuel if both tanks are full.

I get around the "Rocket Ranch" on the Nighthawk love this old bike!

Lander Frame Completed

The Frednet Lander frame was compleated yesterday! We hope to skin it tonight and get started on the gimbal mechanisum in the next day or so. Back to machining parts for SS2S today.

Propane/GOX Test Engine

Cleaned up the motor casing and made a mandrel for the converging diverging nozzle as soon as we figure the combustion chamber dimentions I'l start spinning the shape.

Frednet Lander Progress

We made some more progress on the Frednet Lander project today as well. We are building a boilerplate for FLYING lander testing.

Looking forward to making more progress tomorrow.

Rocket parts for SS2S

Finished a Rocket Motor Coupling for ProtoSShot-M MarkIII today for Richard Nakka and the SS2S team. 2 more to make in this round of parts! Looks like their not to far from a lunch date in Feb.

Rocket Ranch using Solar and Wind power

The Rocket Ranch, we spent some time today raising the wind turbine! Now we have a pretty well rounded system including the PV Solar Panels, Air to Air heat exchanger, Wind Turbine and the next step is the Water Heater the panels will reside next to the A2A Exchanger in the front of the house. Oh I forgot the Cistern that will be sealed with concrete soon. Did I mention the fallout shelter out back?

So we did not build any rocket parts today but we made sure we can no mater what happens :)

Team Prometheus and Cornell University

Because of a friend of ours on the Space Fellowship we are now collaborating with Cornell to put their tiny spacecraft into Near Space on an expedition of ours sechuled for March-April! Check it out at http;//www.spacecraftresearch.com/MII/MII_overview.html

Monroe

Team Prometheus and Frednet

Thats Stew Lilley holding the Template for the bottom of the Frednet Lander! We have decided to assist them in their efforts in the GLXP because the N-Prize is a long project in it's self! We intend to use these templates to build a working (Flying) Lander for the Freadnet team.