{"id":390,"date":"2008-12-31T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-12-31T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:15:53","slug":"romanians-enter-funky-rocket-in-lunar-x-prize-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/romanians-enter-funky-rocket-in-lunar-x-prize-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanians Enter Funky Rocket in Lunar X Prize Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This popped up just before the holidays: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelunarxprize.org\/lunar\/teams\/arca\/blog\/haas-arcas-orbital-rocket-launcher-unveiled-today\" target=\"_blank\">Haas, ARCA&#8217;s Lunar Orbital Rocket Launcher Unveiled Today<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;Today&quot; portion of the headline no longer applies, but the rocket is still freshly awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcaspace.ro\/orbital\/en\/home.htm\">ARCA<\/a> is the Romanian team competing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelunarxprize.org\">Lunar X Prize<\/a> and they plan on lifting this bad boy 18km up by balloon before launch. I&#8217;d love to know more about the story behind this oddly beautiful design, but I can&#8217;t get the brochure to download properly. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/arcaorbital\/Haas_orbital_rocket_launcher#\">gallery<\/a> to appreciate the grandeur of the Haas. Or, take a look at my feeble rocketlol:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/haas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launching from a balloon isn&#8217;t a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8KrEvT-wYQ\"> new idea<\/a> , of course, but it should work. As a jingoistic SOB, I hope an American team wins. As a CMU graduate, I hope Red Whittaker&#8217;s team, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelunarxprize.org\/lunar\/teams\/astrobotic\">Astrobotic<\/a> , makes it. As a human, however, I&#8217;m pulling for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck, ARCA!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/haas.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This popped up just before the holidays: Haas, ARCA&#8217;s Lunar Orbital Rocket Launcher Unveiled Today . The &quot;Today&quot; portion of the headline no longer applies, but the rocket is still freshly awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 ARCA is the Romanian team competing for the Lunar X Prize and they plan on lifting this bad boy 18km up by balloon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","category-science-fandom","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}