Roll Control System Installed for NASA's Ares 1-X Test Flight [HD]

[mejw1]

what is that red ball looking thing? 01:50

[rss0246]

Spheres are almost always compressed gas or propellant. In this case for use in two thruster units designed to control rolling moment on the Ares I first stage. (The stage itself is basically a modified SRB -- similar to that perfected on the Shuttle after the Challenger accident -- flying free for the first time.)

[ti994apc]

This is the conclusion from an Airforce study: Ares1 has "Solid Rocket" fuel, just like the shuttle. In an explosion debris is big chunks of flaming solid fuel, still burning at over 2000 °C. For an accident anywhere in that vulnerable period, Orion will be inside the blazing debris cloud for its whole descent. And its parachutes are nylon, which melts at about 200 °C. They will overheat and disintegrate, and the capsule will crash.

[wammied]

Safer than the shuttle in that there is a rocket powered escape tower to pull the capsule free of the rocket in an emergency. Also solid fuel will eliminate blowing up on thay pad. Sure is gonna be a rough ride though!

[ti994apc]

Todays Headlines via Foxnews:

Air Force: NASA's new Ares1 rocket unsafe for astronauts, with '100 percent' fatality rate in launch-abort scenario.  No Chance of Survival!

[HBSfromMsia]

Todays Headlines via CNN and BBC News(even tho I don't trust these broadcasts):

ti994apc is a f**king immature butt hole who has no clue in spacecraft technology and rocketry.

[ti994apc]

Ares 1 is existing Hardware, not existing technology. Ares1 requires an extremely advanced thrust stabilization control system at the the top of the rocket just to keep its radical pensil shape upright or it breaks apart.

In addition, Ares 1 uses solid rocket fuel which cannot be turned off once started! Wernher von Braun refused to let any astronauts fly with solid rocket fuel. Try ejecting of a rocket that cannot be turned off.

[Jontheking100]

pretty much all of them are like that....the challenger space shuttle

look it up, and your saying the ares rockets are unsafe

try flying in a rocket that cannot eject at all

[etbitmydogucf]

You do know that the current boosters that the space shuttle uses are solid right? This is old technology, rehashed so that people think it's new.

[rss0246]

Hey ti. Every rocket ever built -- liquid or solid fuel -- breaks up quickly if not kept "upright" on acceleration through the lower atmosphere.

The Ares "escape tower" system -- absent on Shuttle but used during Apollo and on Soyuz (where it actually saved Russian astronauts during a launch abort situation) is designed to "eject" a crew safely away from a rocket WHILE IT IS RUNNING. Air Force has an ax to grind. Ares will be 50 times safer on launch than shuttle...

[ti994apc]

Why spend the money on Ares 1 when we have Falcon 9 ? Falcon 9 is far safer, cost a lot less, and almost ready to go. Keep Ares 5 but replace Ares 1 with Falcon 9.

[bb4aa]

How many Falcon 9 are already launched? How many payload has it brought to Orbit?

Answer: no launches, no payload in Orbit!

Ares 1 and 5 are using existing technology! It is only to prove, if the configuration / integration works well.

That is risk reduction! With Falcon you increase risk!

The USA has already lost enough Astronauts!

[ti994apc]

Yes we have lost enough astronauts. Thanks to rocket designs like the Shuttle and Ares1. Liquid fuel has a much safer track record than Solid Rocket fuel. The Soyuz has over 1000 successful launches. Falcon 9 combines the best of Soyuz and Apollo. "A more existing technology" than solid rocket fueled rockets have been. The best Rocket the USA has ever had was the Titan II (at least the first stage) that used liquid fuel and launched 10 times in 1965 alone.