{"id":13175,"date":"2005-10-12T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/rocket-racing-league\/"},"modified":"2005-10-12T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:44:00","slug":"rocket-racing-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/rocket-racing-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Racing League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you thought the Pod Races in Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace<\/i><\/a> were cool, then the proposed Rocket Racing League<\/a> will probably be right up your alley. The BBC<\/i> reports<\/a> on this very unusual new “sport:”<\/p>\n

Peter Diamandis, the man behind the $10m X-Prize for suborbital space travel, has brought forward his new initiative: the Rocket Racing League.<\/p>\n

The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a “3D trackway” just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground.
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Dr Diamandis said the races would be run over aerial tracks that were about two miles (3.2km) long, one mile (1.6km) wide, and about 5,000ft high, running perpendicularly to spectators.<\/p>\n

The X-Racers will take off from a runway both in a staggered fashion and side by side, and fly a three-dimensional course with long straights, vertical ascents, and deep banks.<\/p>\n

Each pilot will follow his or her own “virtual tunnel” of space with the aid of satellite-navigation technology, safely separated from their competitors by a minimum distance.<\/p>\n

Spectators will be able to follow the races by looking at the exhaust plumes in the sky and on hand-held GPS tracking devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds way cool, but I’ll believe it when I see it…<\/p>\n

thanks to Dale and Shaft for the links<\/div>\n

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tags: science<\/a> space<\/a> aviation<\/a> sports<\/a> <\/div>\n
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If you thought the Pod Races in Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace were cool, then the proposed Rocket Racing League will probably be right up your alley. The BBC reports on this very unusual new “sport:” Peter Diamandis, the man behind the $10m X-Prize for suborbital space travel, has brought forward his new initiative: … <\/p>\n

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