One mile is not fare enough away from a solid rocket fuel explosion. Burning chunks of solid rocket fuel would eat up the parachute. (see delta II explosion). The escape system has to be really powerful to pull from an engine that cannot be turned off with Ares1. I have heard estimates that the escape system is 35,000+ pounds. This is part of the reason Ares1 has to be a heavy lift rocket almost the size of Apollo and why it cost 1 billion a launch. Thank God for Falcon9.
@ti994apc This is true, however this is better than the current setup. The space shuttle launch has no abort system so if there is a malfunction with the main engines or SRB's during the first several minutes after liftoff there is practically no hope for survival. Also, I doubt the Orion capsule would be launched vertically away from the rocket since this would place it in the path of the rocket. It would be ejected at an angle away from the rocket, and would travel much farther than one mile.
This is incorrect. The CAPSULE is the ORION CAPSULE... NOT THE ROCKET. Please correct this.
And future of NASA? It's weird that NASA is even doing this... What does this matter here... President Obama canceled Constellation. Why are they even testing the capsule's emergency jettison ability if it is never going to be used to lift people off the ground? The Orion capsule has been given a new job: to act as an escape pod for the International Space Station.
One mile is not fare enough away from a solid rocket fuel explosion. Burning chunks of solid rocket fuel would eat up the parachute. (see delta II explosion). The escape system has to be really powerful to pull from an engine that cannot be turned off with Ares1. I have heard estimates that the escape system is 35,000+ pounds. This is part of the reason Ares1 has to be a heavy lift rocket almost the size of Apollo and why it cost 1 billion a launch. Thank God for Falcon9.
ti994apc 1 year ago
@ti994apc This is true, however this is better than the current setup. The space shuttle launch has no abort system so if there is a malfunction with the main engines or SRB's during the first several minutes after liftoff there is practically no hope for survival. Also, I doubt the Orion capsule would be launched vertically away from the rocket since this would place it in the path of the rocket. It would be ejected at an angle away from the rocket, and would travel much farther than one mile.
crazybastard82 1 year ago
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RJCNowhereMan 1 year ago
This is incorrect. The CAPSULE is the ORION CAPSULE... NOT THE ROCKET. Please correct this.
And future of NASA? It's weird that NASA is even doing this... What does this matter here... President Obama canceled Constellation. Why are they even testing the capsule's emergency jettison ability if it is never going to be used to lift people off the ground? The Orion capsule has been given a new job: to act as an escape pod for the International Space Station.
DrJoshD 1 year ago