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After a relatively long period of silence, CSTART is pleased to be able to announce some changes to the structure of our project set and also a new front for close collaboration with the Mach30 Foundation, one of the Friends of CSTART. These new ideas and directions will hopefully help us to work better toward [...]
The polls for collecting community opinion on propellants for the OHKLA project have closed, with polyethylene (PE) as the fuel and nitrous oxide (N2O) as the oxidizer taking clear majorities of votes. This result is entirely in keeping with the opinions expressed in our forum discussions. The relatively small number of votes cast (although the numbers exceeded the number of people expressing their opinions on the forum, meaning the polls were still worthwhile) combined with the lack of votes for the least popular propellants on the forum suggest that the poll was taken seriously and neither subject to ballot-stuffing nor degenerated into an uninformed popularity contest. Thus, the choice of PE and N2O can now be considered official (although obviously the choice may be reviewed later in the project if strong community opinion suggests this is necessary). (click title to read more)
After a period of significant stagnation, in an attempt to breathe new life and momentum into the OHKLA project, it has been decided that a choice of hybrid rocket propellants for that project shall be decided upon by the 23rd of this month. Making this central design decision will allow us to begin considering many follow-on design decisions and start making preliminary designs, removing a large obstacle to progress on OHKLA. As always, CSTART looks to its community for guidance on making its decisions, including design decisions. (click title to read more)
A few days ago, J. Simmons of the Mach 30 Foundation for Space Development, extended an offer to become a Friend of CSTART, and today CSTART accepted this offer. Mach 30 is a US-based, non-profit corporation with the ambitious goal of “leading humanity to become a spacefaring civilization”. Mach 30 contends that “history, as well as the upcoming gap in U.S. human space flight, proves our current space exploration plans aren’t working”, and thus “a totally new approach is required. Rather than wait for the government, Mach 30 is building a community of individuals who, by working together, can take humanity to space”. (click title to read more)
