Episode 1 Linear Aerospike Engine: Not Your Typical Rocket Engine - BIIRS Season 1

An obscure topic even among rocket scientists, the Linear Aerospike Engine is an incredible feat of engineering that needs to be recognized. So we're putting a spotlight on it for our pilot episode! Music from https://filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources: Chaikin, Andrew. “Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation?” Air & Space Magazine, Air & Space Magazine, 1 Jan. 2012, www.airspacemag.com/space/is-spacex…nd%20to%20orbit. Coniglio, Samuel, director. Aerospike Engine. YouTube, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWf4iOMSPNc. Curious Droid, director. Aerospike Engines - Why Aren't We Using Them Now? YouTube, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zFefh5T-8. Dunbar, Brian. “X-33 Fact Sheet.” NASA, NASA, www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/n…und/facts/x33.html. “End of an Era.” End of an Era | National Air and Space Museum, airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/apo…/end-of-era.cfm. “Engineering The Future.” ARCA, www.arcaspace.com/. “Firefly Alpha.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Dec. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Alpha. "Flight of the Aerospike: Episode 26 - Preliminary Calibration Tests for the Aerospike" Youtube video, October 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7JSiftPiM. J-2T-200K, www.astronautix.com/j/j-2t-200k.html. Lash, Elizabeth Lara, "Trajectory Analysis and Comparison of a Linear Aerospike Nozzle to a Conventional Bell Nozzle for SSTO Flight. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2015. trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/3383 Mark Wade (17 November 2011). "J-2T-200K". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 26 February 2012. Nasa.gov. (2020). NASA - Linear Aerospike Engine fact sheet (08/00). [online] Available at: www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/n…cts/aerospike.html [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019]. “Reusable Launch Vehicle.” NASA, NASA, spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1996/14.html. Wikipedia contributors, "Aerospike engine," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl…&oldid=919434967 (accessed January 1, 2020).