August 31, 2010
Today I've had some time to take a closer look at my new ‘space corset'.
And I noted the two little engines Vision ‘waved into the thing. Apparently a pair gyroscopes the size of a cigarette box from a microsat satellite that had been turned into a pair of reactionless drives. No I won't call them thrusters because that would imply that they are not reactionless.
Anyway, they are mounted to the ‘space corset' on both sides of the hips and now hidden from view by pouches. I haven't been able to test their full capability yet, but from the looks of it, the small drives are easily among the most maneuverable things in fenspace. But that reduces other things. I think that I can barely keep up with the Toy Box at full burn, but I have no idea about the max speed. I guess that I would be somewhere about 0.001c up to 0.01c when I trust Visions calculations.
Needs further testing, not the little stint outside of KA Preiswert.
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September 5th, 2010
I just had to...
Today I took off after breakfast and set my sight for empty space. Without the Toy Box, just to test out the limits of my ‘space corset'.
I think I hit the ceiling of the little speed drives somewhere at about 2400 km/s. Not bad for two gyroscopes powered by an pair of ‘waved Li-Ion batteries.
I'm just glad that my phone got an integrated space navigation system after ‘waving it. And that additionally to the normal Android Apps...
Oh, and I scared the whit out of some guy driving a Punto on his way t o Mars. I swear that he was white as a sheet after I buzzed him.
Note to self: Get more Pink Floyd for long journeys alone.
Also still trying to think of a use for the E-Tool in space.
Fighting off boarders perhaps?
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September 28th, 2010
I'm an aunt!
My sister just had her babies!
Yes. Babies. Plural!
A boy and a girl. Michael and Isabell.
…
Okay, I think I need to start to get the correct permits to land the Toy Box at Dortmund and take off again. My family does want to see the Box when I come down when the twins are baptized. And it would be a bad idea to do it without informing the proper authorities and get the permits.
We are a Germany company and have to comply to German laws.
Even if there are fen who frown at us keeping close relations with Earth.
Earth may be our cradle and we need to leave it. But that does not mean that we have to abandon it...
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October 1st, 2010
My sister called me.
The twins are going to be baptized on January 9th next year.
Now that I know the date, I can get the permits for that time frame. Hopefully its not going to be as much red tape as with changing identity. Or paying back the loans we took to build the Toy Box...
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October 15th, 2010
One of the first larger contracts for us that are not exactly commercial...
NASA asked us to run some service on Hubble. While the Soviets have done some work for them, our work for Astra, Eutelsat and Hughes seems to have been good enough for someone like NASA to ask for our services. Or maybe it was us saving Hubble from that large piece of Chinese satellite three month ago.
I for one like the fact that there are enough rocket scientists left in NASA to see the handwavium is a good thing for space exploration, even if we just do it for the money...
The parts we need for the maintenance are going to arrive at Stellvia in early November.
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November 3rd, 2010
NASA actually surprised us then they delivered yesterday. But perhaps that was because Ben did the run. Or the fact that its only a few electronic modules for the telescope.
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November 4th, 2010
We were just beginning with our work on Hubble when the airwaves started to all but clog up. Apparently some larger ship had made orbit.
Quite unusual that. We got new fen in strange new vehicles every week. Sometimes even every day.
I still remember that girl in her pink Smart...
Anyway, rumor has it that its an Irish military ship with operational guns.
I for one can't really understand what the fuzz is all about. Don't people realize that the stuff they throw overboard in orbit is all but a weapon against others?
I still want to find that asshat who lost a bucket of scraps, bolts and nuts and throw the stuff into his face. Nearly shredded one of our Orbital Sleds.
So what is one real weapon up here anyway?
I'm sure that one of the Mads has build a railgun already...
Today I've had some time to take a closer look at my new ‘space corset'.
And I noted the two little engines Vision ‘waved into the thing. Apparently a pair gyroscopes the size of a cigarette box from a microsat satellite that had been turned into a pair of reactionless drives. No I won't call them thrusters because that would imply that they are not reactionless.
Anyway, they are mounted to the ‘space corset' on both sides of the hips and now hidden from view by pouches. I haven't been able to test their full capability yet, but from the looks of it, the small drives are easily among the most maneuverable things in fenspace. But that reduces other things. I think that I can barely keep up with the Toy Box at full burn, but I have no idea about the max speed. I guess that I would be somewhere about 0.001c up to 0.01c when I trust Visions calculations.
Needs further testing, not the little stint outside of KA Preiswert.
————————————–
September 5th, 2010
I just had to...
Today I took off after breakfast and set my sight for empty space. Without the Toy Box, just to test out the limits of my ‘space corset'.
I think I hit the ceiling of the little speed drives somewhere at about 2400 km/s. Not bad for two gyroscopes powered by an pair of ‘waved Li-Ion batteries.
I'm just glad that my phone got an integrated space navigation system after ‘waving it. And that additionally to the normal Android Apps...
Oh, and I scared the whit out of some guy driving a Punto on his way t o Mars. I swear that he was white as a sheet after I buzzed him.
Note to self: Get more Pink Floyd for long journeys alone.
Also still trying to think of a use for the E-Tool in space.
Fighting off boarders perhaps?
————————————–
September 28th, 2010
I'm an aunt!
My sister just had her babies!
Yes. Babies. Plural!
A boy and a girl. Michael and Isabell.
…
Okay, I think I need to start to get the correct permits to land the Toy Box at Dortmund and take off again. My family does want to see the Box when I come down when the twins are baptized. And it would be a bad idea to do it without informing the proper authorities and get the permits.
We are a Germany company and have to comply to German laws.
Even if there are fen who frown at us keeping close relations with Earth.
Earth may be our cradle and we need to leave it. But that does not mean that we have to abandon it...
————————————–
October 1st, 2010
My sister called me.
The twins are going to be baptized on January 9th next year.
Now that I know the date, I can get the permits for that time frame. Hopefully its not going to be as much red tape as with changing identity. Or paying back the loans we took to build the Toy Box...
————————————–
October 15th, 2010
One of the first larger contracts for us that are not exactly commercial...
NASA asked us to run some service on Hubble. While the Soviets have done some work for them, our work for Astra, Eutelsat and Hughes seems to have been good enough for someone like NASA to ask for our services. Or maybe it was us saving Hubble from that large piece of Chinese satellite three month ago.
I for one like the fact that there are enough rocket scientists left in NASA to see the handwavium is a good thing for space exploration, even if we just do it for the money...
The parts we need for the maintenance are going to arrive at Stellvia in early November.
————————————–
November 3rd, 2010
NASA actually surprised us then they delivered yesterday. But perhaps that was because Ben did the run. Or the fact that its only a few electronic modules for the telescope.
————————————–
November 4th, 2010
We were just beginning with our work on Hubble when the airwaves started to all but clog up. Apparently some larger ship had made orbit.
Quite unusual that. We got new fen in strange new vehicles every week. Sometimes even every day.
I still remember that girl in her pink Smart...
Anyway, rumor has it that its an Irish military ship with operational guns.
I for one can't really understand what the fuzz is all about. Don't people realize that the stuff they throw overboard in orbit is all but a weapon against others?
I still want to find that asshat who lost a bucket of scraps, bolts and nuts and throw the stuff into his face. Nearly shredded one of our Orbital Sleds.
So what is one real weapon up here anyway?
I'm sure that one of the Mads has build a railgun already...