by joe.latrell | Dec 1, 2019 | Discovery, News
Time for one of those good news/bad news posts. The bad news is that Discovery PocketQube is not going on the RocketLab flight as planned. The good news is that all of the images, books, videos, etc are still flying. So what happened? In a nutshell, the paperwork...
by joe.latrell | Sep 30, 2019 | Discovery, News
We have finally installed a vacuum chamber that can drop the pressure to 2,500 mTorr (we can go to 500 mTorr) if we need it. That pressure is pretty close to what Discovery will experience in space. I ran the first test with the Engineering model for over six hours....
by joe.latrell | May 19, 2019 | Discovery, Mars, News
My friend Joel Jackel came down from new York with his Mark Watney costume. It took him a year to make it. We found a good location to take some shots and then with a little bit of editing, made it look like Mars. It was a fun photo shoot. Going to send this image on...
by joe.latrell | Dec 27, 2018 | Discovery, News
Early rail design, first pod, and final pod design with door. First pod test, side view. First pod design along side the final version with door. Final pod design. In order to test the Discovery PocketQube, we needed to build a launch pod. This device holds the...
