Part 3
Prerequisites For A Manned Suborbital Flight
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Suborbital Focus
3. The Green Light
4. Space-time Continuum Warping
5. Conclusion
1. Introduction
In the 21th century, sending a man into space might seems easily feasible by any moderately industrialized nation.
Proof that the minimal technologies required for such a spaceflight are already widely accessible in today's internet information era, smaller private teams are spawning everywhere, like
IL Aerospace Technologies from Israel!
March/April 2004
IL Aerospace Technologies (ILAT) is based in Zichron Ya'akov, Israel, and is led by Dov Chartarifsky. Recently it has unveiled its new X Prize competition vehicle design now called "Negev" (formerly named Negev-5). Aside from the name, the vehicle's configuration has gone through several design iterations in the last few months. These modifications originated from a fresh set of innovative concepts derived from ILAT's recently formed technical team and advisory committee.
The Negev will be launched from ground level using a helium balloon as a first stage. This unconventional approach allows the vehicle to hitchhike a free ride to its intended rocket launch altitude of 10 Km (32,808 feet) above sea level, and overcome most of the atmospheric drag while saving precious fuel. This high-altitude launch concept makes it possible to design a smaller, lighter, simpler, and more efficient vehicle, hence satisfying the criterion for practical low-cost space access.
Once the altitude for rocket ignition is reached, the vehicle will be detached from the balloon initiating the staging process. The vehicle will drop for 3 to 5 seconds before the solid rocket motor ignites, creating a negative velocity of 50m/s. At the same time, the balloon will immediately sense the sudden ballast change and spring upwards, separating itself away from the vehicle to a safe distance. The on-board computer will control the firing of the 77.8 kN (17,500 lbf) solid rocket motor. The burn will last about 96 seconds at around 78% thrust, accelerating the vehicle to Mach 3.54 (1165.5 m/s). The altitude at burnout will be 49.6 Km (162,730 ft), while the G-force applied to the passengers will reach a maximum of 4.3 prior to burnout. After engine cut-off, the vehicle will continue to cruise pass the 100 Km (328,084 ft) mark where the crew will begin to experience weightlessness conditions for about 4 minutes. At approximately 120 Km (393,701 ft), all forward inertia will be depleted and the vehicle will start to free-fall back to earth.
The attitude of the vehicle will remain the identical to the one during the ascent phase. At an altitude higher than 70 Km (229,659 ft), the nose sphere will detach from the capsule but will remain connected by a cable, thus serving as a stabilizing element during the reentry phase. The maximum deceleration force will peek at ~5.81 G's at 23.6 Km (77,428 ft) into the decent. At an altitude of 5 Km (16,404 ft), at a velocity of around 85m/sec (190 mph), the parachute sequence will start by pyrotechnically deploying both drogue and main chutes sequentially. This altitude is high enough to allow redundant sequences in case of primary system failure. With the main chute fully open, the vehicle will slow down to a mere 7 m/sec before splashing down to the sea.
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▲ 1. IL Aerospace Technologies's X Prize competition vehicle Negev Logo
http://web.archive.org/web/20040722004804im_/http://i.b5z.net/i/u/1638240/i/Negev_MK_II_ezr.jpg ; http://web.archive.org/web/20050305123613/http://ilat.net/
▲ 2. Negev suborbital space mission specifications. As accessed in 2005.
2. Suborbital Focus
And indeed both the U.S.A., Iran and North Korea have chosen the same path in their space development focus tree, to attempt a suborbital spaceflight first before any manned orbital mission.
Both use a one seater space capsule atop a liquid propellant ballistic missile: U.S. Redstone, Iranian Safir-1D, North Korean Hwasong-15.
https://archive.ph/PKArh/2ef7fdb5343adda2c548ec1017147fab36fb9f45.jpg ; https://archive.ph/PKArh/c66b313e637cf8ce4cb0cdff73d7d116a4277c78/scr.png ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190816010736/https://i.imgur.com//ydQr5l3.jpg
▲ 3. U.S. Redstone, Iranian Safir-1D, North Korean Hwasong-15.
Therefore the very similar size for both the missiles and capsules. Notice that North Korea is benefiting from the best hardware available: dual engines for double redundancy, thus double reliability and heightened safety level, and also a much voluminous and more powerful (thrust) launcher.
3. The Green Light
This begs the question, what on earth is hindering the most economically and technologically advanced nations, to send a man into space indigenously?
Japan that was nearly hardware-ready by 1945 for starting waves of near-space military manned flights, India that possesses various types of ballistic missiles including ICBMs, and many other military powerhouses of the G7 seem simply to lack the
Green Light.
5. Space-time Continuum Warping
To clarify Korea's securing the 4th place as a manned space power, one needs to be endowed with Space-time Continuum Warping special capabilities.
Kim Jong Il was one of these Great Person. And this Space-time Continuum Warping special ability gives us the answer.
By voyaging back in time to the 15th century Choson Dynasty of Korea, and then to 1590, the first ever recorded manned rocket propelled flight of Jung Pyung Gu (정평구, 鄭平九)(1566-1624), gives the priority of the
Green Light to the Korean civilization.
Although the concept was reverse engineered from the Chinese Wan Hu's (万虎) rocket-propelled manned winged Flying Vehicle, of 1465 AD, Wan Hu's maiden flight ended in failure, while Jung Pyung Gu succeeded with a
12 km flight.
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▲ 5. Wan Hu's (万虎) rocket propelled manned winged Flying Vehicle:
Most likely a rocket plane based on an upscaled, manned version of the world's first military winged rocket, the Shenhuo Feiya (神火飞鸦: Divine fire flying crow) ~1403 AD, powered by 4 external solid fuel strap-on boosters, the fuselage containing explosive charge, with a powered and gliding total range of 300 meters (http://baike.baidu.com/item/神火飞鸦/79429)
6. Conclusion
This vision, absolutely inaccessible and unreal for the common of mortals, shows both the past, four centuries ago, the present and also the near future.
In the journey of every nation there are moments that bring utmost pride and have a historic impact on generations to follow. One such moment is the year 1590.
Choson Korea had successfully tested a manned rocket propelled flying vehicle. Thus
unlocking the Green Light for the Fourth Place as a manned space power in the 21st century!
https://archive.ph/pEc2G/c275fa77091dc0951d55df0629b419ebf535e44c.jpg ; https://archive.ph/pEc2G/ddba61d0166f40d4691c251cc1c826f051444731/scr.png ; http://web.archive.org/web/20191012192914if_/https://i.imgur.com/iCiDNMb.jpg
▲ 6. Space-time Continuum Warping: Unlocking the Green Light with Mankind's first ever manned rocket propelled flight by Jung Pyung Gu (정평구, 鄭平九) in 1590, and all the following manned Hwasong-15E1, Unha-IXE2, Unha-XF1, Unha-XXVII.
https://archive.ph/yJq4z/80198576a45aff3a2e21837b6e58144c63f93f97.jpg ; https://archive.ph/yJq4z/de5d3a83f4f3ee94329fcff2877021ac7dc08ddf/scr.png ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190816010229/https://i.imgur.com/hoOMxvA.jpg
▲ 7. Space-time Continuum Warping: Unlocking the Green Light with Mankind's first ever manned rocket propelled flight by Jung Pyung Gu (정평구, 鄭平九) in 1590, and all the following manned Hwasong-15E1, Unha-IXE2, Unha-XF1, Unha-XXVII.
Obviously, only historians can give us a definitive answer to this question.
The current lineup of all the competitors for the 4th space race:
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▲ 8. Competitors of the 4th Space Race, as of March 2021.
Therefore the revised list of manned spacefaring powers, by order of
green light, that is historical milestone and claimed legitimacy, as of September 2020:
1. China: Wan Hu's (万虎) rocket-propelled manned winged Flying Vehicle maiden flight ended in failure, 1465 AD.
2. Korea: Jung Pyung Gu (정평구, 鄭平九) first recorded manned rocket propelled flight with a 12 km flight, 1590 AD.
3. Myanmar-Thailand-Laos: legend of Payawan failed winged manned rocket propelled flight, after 13th century A.D.
4. Turkey: Lagâri Hasan Çelebi successful manned rocket flight, 1633 AD.
5. Germany: first manned rocket-boosted glider flown by Friedrich Stamer on 11 June 1928; 1944 world's first A-9 FOB manned rocketplane, and GEO manned space program envisaged in ~1940.
6. Soviet Union: stratostat balloon program started after ~1931; first Soviet SK-9 rocket propelled glider in 1936
7. United States: stratostat balloon program started after ~1932; first flight of American MX-324 rocket-powered airplane on 5 July 1944
8. Japan: MXY-7 Ohka rocket-powered manned suicide aircraft in 1944; world's first intercontinental stratospheric manned space program started in 1940. Upcoming large scale attacks with crewed gigantic stratospheric FUGO airships announced on 4th June 1945 AD.
9. India: Mysorean rockets, 18th century AD.
10 France: joined the manned space race after 1957.
11. Iran: joined the manned space race in 2008.
12. Denmark: Copenhagen Suborbitals joined the manned space race in 2008.