[FPSPACE] Excalibur Almaz Update

[John]

Kudos to Excalibur Almaz for not being afraid of a hatch in the heat  
shield. This has been amply demonstrated on Gemini/MOL, TKS and of  
course every shuttle with 5 (I think?) heat shield doors.

The proposed design is also reminiscent of MOL again with the hab  
module behind the crew module.

No need for an excessively powerful (and thus heavy) launch escape  
system able to hoist both the crew module and the hab module.

John Charles
Houston, Texas

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 17, 2009, at 16:20, DavidLRickman at aol.com wrote:

> FPSpacer's
>
> Excalibur Almaz has updated their web site at http://excaliburalmaz.com/SP1/index.php 
>  . There is a new Service Module in the works which appears at this  
> time to be TKS class capable of launching on a smaller launch  
> vehicle than the Proton.
>
> There will be a presentation at the MAKS 2009. Anybody planning on  
> visiting MAKS please let me know.
>
> Best,
>
> David L. Rickman
>
> _______________________________________________
> FPSPACE mailing list
> FPSPACE at friends-partners.org
> http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/fpspace/attachments/20090817/4532633c/attachment.html