F-35A GBU-31 Safe Sep Video

Nice separation video near the end; bearably cheesy at the beginning.

OpenFoam on Google Compute Engine

I signed up for the free preview of Google Compute Engine. The project I described in their questionaire was basically just some hobby-level CFD stuff, so I am surprised they sent me an invite. This post provides links to the initial setup documentation and getting started tutorials, and describes getting OpenFoam up and running on an instance.

• GCE Hello World
  
• gcutil Tool Install
  
• Overview
• Instances
• Networking, Firewall
• Disks
• Images

Falcon 9 Flight 4, CRS-1

Congratulations to SpaceX on their successful launch of the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station!