April 2013

The business plan for the Spacefleet EARL project is now  attracting serious interest from some potential investors.

As the project progresses we expect to have much more to report, shortly. Meanwhile, some new artwork has being produced. Here are some examples:

EARL at apogee with payload exposed to space

EARL preparing to land

The Managing Director of Spacefleet met with two of the three international collaborators at the Space Conference in Dneproptrovsk, Ukraine in April (17th-19th) to discuss the project in finer detail. The meeting concluded with general assent that project was sound, that the collaborators were willing to continue it, and that funding would be sought for a mission analysis, forming the initial phase of project development.

It is also planned to have a flying model demonstrator of the EARL constructed, the EARL-D, for research into its flying properties, controllability, and landing.