His spelling and grammar are flat out terrible and he shows zero math. He’s not convincing me he has the scientific wherewithal to accomplish this task even if funded. Every shot is likely putting micro-fractures throughout the barrel. Playing around with high explosives and generic metals not intended for the purpose at hand is an insanely dangerous idea. I’m hoping he has xray equipment and intends to scrutinize his setup after every test shot. His barrel appears to be a standard store bought stand pipe. The barrel’s walls were around 2 to 3 inches thick and it still required maintenance and section replacements due to the pressure necessary to get the projectiles to near-space. ![]() The military had a 16″ gun, mountains of failures, and millions of dollars. When the military tried this they found that the power it took to get a projectile to the level where it would begin an orbital insertion turn and burn pretty much always destroyed the rocket motor on the projectile. Posted in Crowd Funding Tagged gun, kickstarter, sattelite, space gun, suborbital Post navigationĭefinitely a gigantic hole in their plan. Two videos from the Kickstarter are below, with a few more details on the project’s webpage was then assassinated by either the US, Israeli, Iranian, British, or Iraqi governments before the gun could be completed. The lead engineer of this project, then went on to work with to design a supergun that could launch satellites into orbit or shells into downtown Tel Aviv or Tehran. The US and Canada DOD built a gun that shot a 180 kg projectile to 180 km altitude. This isn’t the first time anyone has attempted to build a gun capable of shooting something into space. ![]() Later developments will include putting a small rocket motor in the dart-shaped bullet to insert the payload into an orbit. The goal of the Kickstarter is to send a small payload into a suborbital trajectory. He’s broken down the propellent charges so instead of one giant propelling a bullet down a barrel, the projectile is constantly accelerated with a number of smaller charges. While the simplest way of shooting something down the length of a barrel would be exploding something in the breech, is doing something a little more interesting. The gun itself is an 8-inch bore, 45-foot long monster of an artillery piece. ![]() It’s a gun designed to send very small payloads into space on a suborbital trajectory. I would also love to answer questions about Space Pioneer, as I am currently focusing all of my time towards the development of Space Pioneer.Įdit: This has been great! Thanks for the AMA's and support on our Kickstarter! I'll have to sign 718 photos once our Kickstarter ends.As far as space travel and Kickstarter is concerned, we’ve seen crowdfunding projects for satellites in low earth orbit, impacting the moon, and even a project for a suborbital rocket. Please feel free to ask me anything - I would be happy to detail my experiences in space (I have many of them to share) and also my opinions on the current state of astronautics in general. We are making a video game that is called "Space Pioneer" and you can check out our Kickstarter here: I'm currently the Creative Director of a team that includes astronauts, scientists, cosmonauts, artists, coders and architects. I am a former cosmonaut I've survived many catastrophic events when I was on the Mir space station, and until recently, I was the Director at the Memorial Museum of Astronautics in Moscow.
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