JP Aerospace Update

04/23/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

John Powell of JP Aerospace is giving an update on what JP Aerospace has been up to and is finally talking about their total vision for balloon based aerospace. It's basically three 'vehicles'. A 'launcher' that gets you to 100K feet, a 'station' that is huge that permanently sits at 100K feet, and an orbital (yes, orbital!) balloon that is almost 6000 feet long and can attain orbit using lift from the upper atmosphere. Its an amazing amount of work that is generating short term ROI now.

JPA isn't going to post the presentation for another month for various reasons. I asked and got permission to post pictures of the handouts. Check out the pictures wiki for the important pages.