Abstract: Reflections To The Future, highlights the need for low cost avionics systems, suitable for use on simple sounding rockets, up through orbital insertion. Microcosm, has designed and built such a low cost Avionics Suite in support of the NASA-Marshall SR-S...
Abstract: Scorpius is a Microcosm program to develop an entirely new launch vehicle family with the objective of reducing total launch cost by a factor of 10. This paper reports on progress since the program was publicly introduced at the 9th AIAA/USU Conference....
Abstract: Scorpius is a Microcosm program to develop an entirely new launch vehicle family with the objective of reducing overall launch system cost by a factor of 10. This paper reports on the progress and problems since the program was publicly introduced at the 9th...
Abstract: Scorpius is a Microcosm program to develop an entirely new launch vehicle family with the following objectives: Better than 99% reliability Launch within 8 hours of payload arrival at the launch site Weather and equipment delays comparable to commercial...
Abstract: Reflections To The Future highlights the need for low cost Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) systems, suitable for use on simple sounding rockets and vehicles up through orbital insertion. Microcosm has designed and built such a low cost GN&C...
