Work night TONIGHT, 7pm, KL 401
Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you are all doing well. Just a reminder that we will have our next work night tonight at 8pm in KL 401. The next regular meeting will be on February 16th.
See you tonight!
-UDAC Officers
Upcoming Events:
2/8 8:00pm (TODAY): Work Night, KL 401
2/16 8:00pm: Regular meeting, KL 401
2/23 8:00pm: Work Night, KL 401
In the News:
- Image at Top: There is a potential for a super heavy static fire of all 33 Raptor engines today (For those of you living in a hole or just not up on this, Super heavy is the new SpaceX booster and, when combined with a Starship upper stage, expected to be the most powerful rocket ever built) (https://techcrunch.com/2023/
02/08/spacex-will-attempt-a- full-static-fire-test-of- starships-super-heavy-booster- tomorrow/) - ULA has completed stacking their first Vulcan Centeur rocket (this is United Launch Aliance's replacement to the long-servince Atlas and Delta IV rockets, both of which are no longer in production, and the organizations first purpose-built rocket (previous vehicles were based on ICBMs)) (https://aviationweek.com/
defense-space/space/first- vulcan-rocket-stacked- prelaunch-tests) - There are a whole bunch of other rockets being tested this year (supposably) - see https://www.nbcnews.com/
science/space/bigger-faster- farther-batch-new-rockets-set- blast-space-year-rcna65014 one list - NASA and DARPA have announced a partnership to advance thermonuclear propulsion (this promises to produce more efficient rockets for in space propulsion) (https://www.washingtonpost.
com/technology/2023/02/03/ nuclear-rocket-darpa-nasa/)