Anyway, Russ was actually the founding head brewer of Harpoon back in 1986 when they first launched. Harpoon IPA was actually the beer that got me hooked on IPAs. I’d assume most East Coast craft beer drinkers have heard of Harpoon Brewery in Boston, MA. I think I can speak for most homebrewers that learning about the commercial process first hand is on top of everyone’s wish list. As an avid homebrewer, this was a dream come true.

I was lucky enough to spend a brew day with Russ and learn the ins and outs of his brewing process. You’re always going to get something new and experimental while relying on fan favorites.

They’re probably one of the more diverse breweries in terms of styles in Massachusetts. This type of aging and fermenting gives their brews a unique spin and unmatched flavor profile.īarrel House Z produces an array of rotating east and west coast IPAs, flavored stouts, ales, fruited sours, wheat beers, and even craft seltzer. Everything from bourbon barrel-aged stouts to session pilsners aged in tequila barrels. Barrel House Z would become a unique brewery that grew in popularity thanks to their barrel-aged beers. The founder and California native, Russell Heissner, opened the brewery in 2015 with the idea of doing things a little differently than your typical brewhouse. Experts say that it will be necessary to remove five large objects from low Earth orbit per year to prevent a dangerous cascade of collisions predicted by NASA scientist Donald Kessler in the 1970s and now known as the Kessler syndrome.Barrel House Z (BHZ) is a small-batch craft brewery located in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The ground-control teams will attempt to maintain contact with the fridge-size spacecraft for as long as possible to gather data about the drag sail's performance.Īctive space-debris-removal technologies are becoming critical as the environment around the Earth becomes more and more cluttered. The mission will conclude in the next few weeks with the deployment of a drag sail that will speed up the RemoveDebris spacecraft's deorbit. 'The RemoveDebris project provides strong evidence of what can be achieved with the power of collaboration - pooling together the experience across industry and the research field to achieve something truly remarkable.'

'The harpoon was RemoveDebris' most demanding experiment and the fact that it was a success is testament to all involved,' Guglielmo Aglietti, the mission's lead investigator and the director of the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey, said in a statement. Shortly after that, RemoveDebris tested optical navigation technology that could be used to locate and target debris in orbit.

It commenced its test campaign in September with another Airbus-led experiment, which demonstrated how a small cubesat could be captured with a net. The spacecraft, the first in history to demonstrate active space-debris-removal technology in orbit, was released into space from the International Space Station in June 2018. The harpoon test this month was the penultimate experiment of the $18.7 million (15.2 million euros) RemoveDebris mission. The agency, however, eventually decided to redesign the mission as a multipurpose vehicle and use a robotic arm instead. That mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s and remove a defunct Earth observation satellite called Envisat, which is one of the largest and therefore most dangerous pieces of space debris cluttering low Earth orbit. Wayman said that the Airbus team will continue developing the technology, which was originally considered for the European Space Agency's planned active space-debris-removal mission e.Deorbit. (Image credit: Airbus/the RemoveDebris consortium) The RemoveDebris satellite's harpoon is designed to skewer and reel in pieces of orbiting space junk.

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