A towable data center!
Checking out some of the components of the Mavericks P.Ref 1 rocket. Tom has designed (with the SGI workstation in the corner of the trailer) a unique parachute deployment cannon into a composite nose cone (with a titanium tip that aids with the supersonic transition). The wound fiber motor section behind me felt sufficiently indestructible, but surprisingly heavy.
Dick and Tom had just helped out the ARLISS academic launch team from Japan who left a wonderful thank-you-note overhead.
There were many curious visitors to the trailer as it was streaming live video and supplying WiFi Internet and Skype calls over a 26-Mbps satellite back haul to a military contractor satellite. The heaviest use was from the Microsoft team. =)
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