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RICHARD K. GRAF
SpaceRef reported in
Canadian Company Developing New, Reusable Ballistic Launch
System that
The President of Columbiad Launch Services Inc., Mr Richard Graf,
announced today Columbiad has begun accepting requests to launch
Scientific and Memorial flights into space from their new, advanced
technology, ballistic launch system.
Columbiad Launch Services Inc. is a dynamic new commercial space launch
company dedicated to providing affordable access to space for everyone.
Columbiad is currently developing a fully portable Industrial Sounding
System (ISS) which uses advanced ballistic propulsion technology to
propel a variety of low cost launch vehicles into space for scientific
research and memorial space flights.
Richard K. Graf has been developing advanced
gun propulsion technologies
since 1990 and is a noted authority on gun propulsion launch systems. As
the President and cofounder of
Columbiad Launch Services Inc., he has
applied his experiences as a military gunsmith and as an industrial
robotics expert to create a versatile commercial gun propulsion launch
system.
Over the past decade Richard had become a sought after authority on
Gerry
Bull's
High Altitude Research Project (HARP). He has published an
extensive account of the HARP Project on the
Encyclopedia Astronautica and has been frequently
consulted on the topic for many productions. He is a long time
member of the
Canadian Space Society and a founding member of the
Canadian Space Chamber of Commerce.
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