Bayourat Aerospace and Rocketry Blog 
Bayourat Aerospace Blog Posts
The Greatest Machine Ever Built (2009-07-07)
Forty Eight years ago (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered a nearly ... [Read More]
The Next Step. The Second Stage. (2009-07-08)The second stage, S-II, would need about a million pounds of thrust and, if also powered by five engines, would call for the development of new 200,000-pound hydrogen-oxygen engines. When bids for ... [Read More]
S.Korea first rocket launch set for August 11 (2009-08-01)SEOUL — South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday. The Ministry of ... [Read More]
THE CONCEPTS WERE THERE; SO WERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO WHAT HAPPENED? AND IS ARES NEXT? (2009-08-23)By Shelby G. Spires Times Aerospace Writer The American space program has no set goals, faces changing priorities and has axed multi-billion dollar projects every few years. A few examples: NASA ... [Read More]
Bayourat Rocketry Tests Realtime GPS Tracking Device (2009-10-01)GPS tracking powered by InstaMapper.com I was researching GPS tracking when I found this inexpensive GPS tracking device. The software was free. I have been carrying it around with me testing out ... [Read More]
New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff (2010-01-08)ROCKET SCIENCE New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff Hypersonic vehicle in the upper atmosphere travelling at Mach 8, indicating heating in the leading edges and ... [Read More]
The X-37B and Beyond. The Future of the Space Plane (2010-01-15)I have been wondering why the USAF created the X-37B? Why has the USAF and NASA gone in separate directions when it comes to accessing space. Basically it boils down to the mission and the money. The ... [Read More]
From X-15 To X-51. Hypersonic Testing Continues At Edwards AFB (2010-03-05)There?s some pretty exciting stuff going on at Edwards Air Force Base as the flight test center team gets ready to conduct an awe-inspiring X-51 first flight. The plan is to air launch the X-51A ... [Read More]
TMT CERTIFIES RATT-WORKS TRI-BRID MOTOR!! (2010-05-18)Finnally a motor that runs on moonshine! We are very pleased to announce two new certified motors from RATTworks, Dave Griffiths, head gas passer. The following motors are the first in a new ... [Read More]
Full-Scale NASA and ATK Solid Rocket Motor Test Set for Aug. 31 (2010-08-31)Full-Scale NASA and ATK Solid Rocket Motor Test Set for Aug. 31 WASHINGTON -- NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will conduct a full-scale test of a five-segment, first-stage solid rocket ... [Read More]
Boeing To Build Capsule To Fly Tourist To The ISS (2010-09-17)BY JOSHUA FREED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Boeing and a space tourism company announced a deal on Wednesday to sell tickets on rocket rides to the International Space Station. Now Boeing just ... [Read More]
Gaseous Hydrogen Leak Repairs Completed. Testing To Follow. (2010-11-18)At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, technicians are completing repairs on space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP). On Nov. 17, the hydrogen vent line was ... [Read More]
Russian military undecided about whether to match latest US spaceplane (2011-01-28)Vladimir Isachenkov, The Associated Press MOSCOW - The Russian military closely monitored last year's flight of a new U.S. spaceplane but hasn't decided whether it needs a similar craft, a top ... [Read More]
Modified X-51A Waverider Ready for Next Hypersonic Test (2011-03-20)United States Air Force engineers currently plan to fly the second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as next Tuesday, programme officials said earlier this week. "We are ... [Read More]
Jacques Valier Advanved Rocketry At The Cost Of His Life (2011-03-21)Alamogordo Daily News By Michael Shinabery, New Mexico Museum of Space History Newspapers worldwide announced Jacques Valier's May 17, 1930, death, although details varied and were mostly wrong, ... [Read More]
Stenis Test Stand Passes Review for Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing (2011-03-31)Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a ... [Read More]
There Are Five Vehicles Competing To Succeed The Space Shuttle (2011-04-23)By Frank Morring, Jr. Washington U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that ... [Read More]
J-2X Development Engine E10001 Makes The Trip To Test Stand A-2 (2011-06-14)Source: http://www.nasa.gov It wasn't too many years ago that there was this thing about asking sports heroes after winning the big game, "So, what's next?" They would always dutifully answer "I'm ... [Read More]
Post Flight Data Analysis From The X-104 Morganza Project. (2011-07-05)Upon my return from the Southern Thunder Rocket Launch and the successful flight of my X-104 Morganza project. I have been pouring over the data returned from the Raven flight computer. The Raven ... [Read More]
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Next Generation J-2X Upper-Stage Engine (2011-07-21)CANOGA PARK, Calif., July 20, 2011 ? Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a chill test and 1.9 second ignition test of NASA?s J-2X engine at John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss. ... [Read More]
Satellite Broadband Just Got Infinitely Better Thanks To The Launch Of ViaSat - 1 (2011-10-20)A Proton M rocket roared of the pad last night at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It carried an amazing commercial satellite. The ViaSat-1. The ViaSat-1 is capable of providing up to 40MB ... [Read More]
Orion, Our Future Spacecraft Undergoes Simulated Space Testing (2011-12-02)It's not every day that America designs an entirely new spacecraft. Rarer still is the creation of a vehicle that can carry man, not just machine, beyond the earth's gravitational pull. In the ... [Read More]
Dr. Goddard's Last Surviving Team Member Passes Away At Age 96 (2012-01-07)LAS CRUCES - Lowell Randall, described by his friend and biographer Joe Gold of Las Cruces, as "the last surviving member of a team of great pioneer rocket scientists who launched the U.S. space ... [Read More]
Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne To Resurrect 40 Year Old 6,000kN F-1 Engines For SLS Boosters (2012-04-20)By: Zach Rosenberg Source: Flight International Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Dynetics have announced a resurrected F-1 engine as their entry into the advanced booster engineering d ... [Read More]
.Launch of Landsat DCM on Atlas V from Vandenberg . (2013-02-11)The very first Atlas V from Vandenberg for NASA launched today, February 11th 2013 at 18:02 UTC. The Atlas V 401 is carrying the Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft into orbit - which will ... [Read More]
NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments (2013-06-09)Washington, DC - NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. This latest selection represents ... [Read More]
Fourth X-37B Spaceplane To Launch With An Advanced NASA Materials Science Experiment (2015-05-18)The planned May 20 fourth launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with a Boeing/U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane comes as the Air Force is shifting to more military spaceplane ... [Read More]
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