well, they didn't kill nasa, just budget cuts. IT'S THE $#@e#&@#% 70'S ALL OVER AGAIN! and schieese, the reason why we're not going is this: hanging out in a small capsule for 6 months, kinda get's cramped doesn't it?
It would have been real nice if that stupid Kenyan national communo-islamic pretender in the white house (who along with his lovely wife hates this country) didn't kill this program!
People like ford 9125 should read up on the flight tests before watcing it. Saying, oops what happened? - what went wrong? - and... oh my god, only starts panic. Nothing went wrong, everthing went as pland!!! And i'm not going to waist my time explainging it READ IT!
Only one vehicle can ever been claimed as being a test vehicle, The Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1. As a whole it had to much power and force to be tested as a single vehicle. Buran 1 did too, and russia knew it. Very Risk!
Be glad that they at least tested a prototype rocket so that the Ares 1-Y test goes much more smoothly than the Ares 1-X.
Only problem I see is that the seperation isn't perfect. But at least everything else went as well as planned. It dosn't look like they will have to fix that much with the next version of the Ares 1 (Which will use the actual 5-SRB). By the way, the upper stage is suppose to tumble away as it is just a dummy.
The upper stage was a dummy stage and had no motor. It performed exactly as expected. The test was of the booster and a parachute at the top of the booster stage. There was nothing wrong with the upper stage.
I don't like what I saw at all. The liftoff is *very* slow; what is the mass ratio of this thing, and what does it mean for variances on wind? Staging is not clean (as noted by a previous commenter); at the very least, I would expect a test of the ullage motors, to check the flight dynamics at staging and to be reasonably sure that the boilerplate upper structure doesn't twist around and slam into the first stage (as nearly happened). Does this mean that there *are no* ullage motors?
well, they didn't kill nasa, just budget cuts. IT'S THE $#@e#&@#% 70'S ALL OVER AGAIN! and schieese, the reason why we're not going is this: hanging out in a small capsule for 6 months, kinda get's cramped doesn't it?
SuperODST1 5 months ago
It would have been real nice if that stupid Kenyan national communo-islamic pretender in the white house (who along with his lovely wife hates this country) didn't kill this program!
ADT
amourdutigre 1 year ago
Wooooo let's go to space
CanadianAlbertan 1 year ago
this guys rock
SneakyTweaky 2 years ago
People like ford 9125 should read up on the flight tests before watcing it. Saying, oops what happened? - what went wrong? - and... oh my god, only starts panic. Nothing went wrong, everthing went as pland!!! And i'm not going to waist my time explainging it READ IT!
Only one vehicle can ever been claimed as being a test vehicle, The Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1. As a whole it had to much power and force to be tested as a single vehicle. Buran 1 did too, and russia knew it. Very Risk!
annahmot 2 years ago
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markcoutis,
could be a bad flux capaciter, or an earth modulator!
pjwraith 2 years ago
Holy crap did you see how fast that thing entered into space? Amazing, next stop MARS!
egregiel87 2 years ago
I'm actually surprised how far it got into space with just a slightly modified 4-SRB and a dummy upper stage.
I expect Ares 1-Y to fix things like the flawed seperation and get a little farther into space with the newer 5-SRB.
MilkyWayArchives 2 years ago
this is the future of space flight
spacegeeks3 2 years ago 5
Be glad that they at least tested a prototype rocket so that the Ares 1-Y test goes much more smoothly than the Ares 1-X.
Only problem I see is that the seperation isn't perfect. But at least everything else went as well as planned. It dosn't look like they will have to fix that much with the next version of the Ares 1 (Which will use the actual 5-SRB). By the way, the upper stage is suppose to tumble away as it is just a dummy.
MilkyWayArchives 2 years ago
The upper stage was a dummy stage and had no motor. It performed exactly as expected. The test was of the booster and a parachute at the top of the booster stage. There was nothing wrong with the upper stage.
ford9125 2 years ago 3
Lets go to Mars now.
schieese 2 years ago 9
I don't like what I saw at all. The liftoff is *very* slow; what is the mass ratio of this thing, and what does it mean for variances on wind? Staging is not clean (as noted by a previous commenter); at the very least, I would expect a test of the ullage motors, to check the flight dynamics at staging and to be reasonably sure that the boilerplate upper structure doesn't twist around and slam into the first stage (as nearly happened). Does this mean that there *are no* ullage motors?
dclarion 2 years ago
Separation of the stages is not clean- upper stages buckles hard..may be due to lack of a secondary sustainer motor
markcoutis 2 years ago
Looks like it broke up to me, but I'm no rocket scientist. ;-)
SackyX 2 years ago
G loads have to be way hi.
hypoxichyrax 2 years ago
It's amazing how much faster it seems to lift off than the old Saturn V's.
Numboss 2 years ago 2