Mission Space: New Idea

As mentioned yesterday, I had to scrap the old idea and make a new one, and that is exactly what I did.

After doing some research on other space programs and ideas, such as Space X and Virgin Galactic, I decided to come up with the new idea.

This idea was inspired by Virgin Galactic and there commercial space project they've been working on. Basically their idea is to have a large plane with a rocket plane in the middle. The bigger plane "tows" the rocket plane up to a certain altitude. Once at this altitude, the rocket plane unhooks from the tow plane and launches into space. This two plane system inspired my own idea

For my new project, the udrone will tow several smaller planes to a reasonable altitude to conserve fuel and most importantly, price. Once at this altitude the smaller planes, which will have the same ardupilot board attached to them, will increase there altitude and then launch their rockets. Then both the udrone tow plane and the small launch pad planes will come back to the specific location.

Differences from the original idea:

1. No more need for helium.
2. The udrone will take the place of the weather balloon and it's main purpose now is to tow the smaller launch pad planes up to a certain altitude.
3. With several launch pads in the air, now more rockets can be launched into space, which will decrease the price of each flight.

Problems with the new idea:

1. Inital cost will be greater than original idea due to more ardupilot boards, planes, and overall materials.
2. Need to figure out how to tow the launch planes and be able to have all of them unhook from the udrone/tow plane.