Ares I-X Re-entry and Splashdown

[berger1980]

Fire the chute rigger!

[cheintzelman1]

Looks like the chute was cigeret rolled. but the whole things was cool

[Infidelerious]

Best ride in the park.

[taku221]

keep to catch the camera well.

[oscarlithgow]

AWESOME..!!!

[rnttester]

NASA RNTTESTER TEST

[an147]

5:25 One of the booster´s three parachutes shreded, but still is an excellent splashdown. Amaizing video. 5/5

[GSMSfromFV]

I understand that the SRB was dented as a result of the hard landing.

Amazing how the long-range camera can remain locked onto the booster during the entire flight through splashdown!

[Gatedialer]

Parachute engineers should be able to tell what happened, it looks like the shoot ripped or the strings broke for the one.

[siim258]

Thats the angle I wanted to see. Awesome :)

[huttonism]

fantastic video! Made my day

[httprover]

An interesting "flare" occurred at 4:18 which seems to have illuminated some sort of trailing wave.

[AresTV]

Those are booster tumble motors firing to help slow the stage's descent.

[karlrob76]

@AresTV Uh, no. That is condensation from the sonic shockwave.

[kurnano]

@AresTV

What?!??!

This is no motors firing, its the effect of slowing down from supersonic speed.

[rocketsarecool1]

Those are not booster tumbler motors at 4:18. They fire much earlier, just after separation from the upper stage. That "flare" was most likely due to aerodynamics at that time, and could be due to crossing the sound barrier.

[TimeLapseSteve]

It's a PrandtlGlauert cloud. Google it.

[httprover]

The "flare" seems to come from both ends of the booster when it is aligned perpendicular to the line of flight but there also seems to be a bit of a stern wave which made visible by the flare.

[asmundhagen]

They will fix the chute-issue in no time.

The SRB hit the surface almost sideways in high speed.

Looking forward to Ares-1Y.

I think this was a good test.

Valuble errors occured.

They learned a lot.