02-06-2018, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by BARGeezer
Will be looking forward to that.
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Seconded! The original S-520 has been around since at least the 1990s. When they added a second stage to create the SS-520, ISAS (Japan's space science agency, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, which was combined with Japan's space applications agency, NASDA--the National Space Development Agency--to create JAXA [ISAS still appears to exist as a "department" of JAXA]) mentioned that with the addition of a small third stage, the SS-520 could orbit small satellites. For a smaller-scale S-520, SS-520, or SS-520-5, BT-50 tubing and the Estes Alpha's blow-molded plastic nose cone could be used (this is one of the scale sizes that are covered in "Scale Bash,"; a model of this size could be powered by 13 mm, 18 mm, or 24 mm motors).
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