Alex Fraser wrote:
> What are the planned objectives for KISS III?  Could someone give a
> description of the first flight vehicle?

The current plan is to use the tank and engine assemblies that flew
in the KISS-II configuration, increase the size of the main propellant 
plumbing in hopes of getting more flow and chamber pressure (which will
increase the thrust), and add a high-pressure gas tank and a regulator
forward of the propellant tank to provide on-board regulated pressurization.

(Electronics enhancements, if any, are TBD at this point... we've got some
ideas that we'll eventually want to use for the higher-thrust "Spike" flights,
but we may well test those on smaller HPR vehicles while we go do the first 
KISS-III flights using an electronics setup similar to what we flew on KISS-II.)

-dave w
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