Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor

[NZbobNZ]

RIP headphone users

[Valca000]

so what does it do

[misium]

@Valca000 It will be used to jettison the Orion (or what it will be now called) crew capsule away from the main rocket in case of emergency.

[MenInSlacks]

@Valca000 That.

[Zoukization]

make for a nice firepit in the backyard...

[XYZslayer]

Thats as creepy as it is awesome

[SoCalTactical]

That looks like the satellite that landed in my backyard the other day. Glad gold prices are so high got a good price for it on ebay

[Spoif]

Ok guys, let's make this a good one. I've put $20 of premium in it.

[sinamim]

wow =0

[ilovetodraw555]

me after i eat taco bell.

[daniel15333]

Dear Santa...

[syncade]

Get some!



[InfiniteSaviour49]

are you trying to move the earth towards the sun?

[44R0Ndin]

@InfiniteSaviour49 thinking about global warming, and that it was daylight in the test video, they would have probably moved the earth AWAY from the sun, if anything

[quinxxer]

wow, this is beyond awesomeness :D

[goherszabolcs]

it is loud

[usaeagle1776]

well, dont guess we will ever see Orion achieve its full potential. thanks Obumbles.

[URProductions]

Goddam Obama can kiss my ass. I like how he says "Yes we can!" and then kills the Space Program.

[mustang65az]

@URProductions Agree 100%

[halation777]

@URProductions How has Obama "killed the space program"??

[CEVOrion]

@halation777 Will we have a launch vehicle to put astronauts into orbit after the last shuttle launches this summer? No.

There's your answer.

[matrix49A]

@halation777 Read pay attention stop masturbating to obama pictures

[realisticHomeboy]

@halation777 By taking away the dough.

[mestanmi]

@URProductions he didn't kill the program, he privatized it. You republican capitalists should love that.

[billrod48]

@mestanmi Stop openly kissing Obama on the mouth,

[matrix49A]

@mestanmi Christ you are stupid (or a traitor)

[NickmickRs]

@mestanmi Bro he didn't do jack to privatize it...when a republican wins the 2012 election I doubt they would make any changes to what he did. No one cares about space unfortunately, when it's probably the most important subject to focus on, but people are ignorant and like to care about "terrorism" and other matters that really won't matter in the future.

[dumdum987654321]

I was digging the first three lines of the description "THANK YOU DEMOCRATS" gotta love that

[telinit5]

Manned spaceflight isn't the future. It's humanly not possibly at the moment, instead we should invest in robotics.

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 That's incredibly short-sighted.. If anything we should invest in both.

If we go with your option robots will likely be all that's left of the human species in a couple hundred years considering the rate at which our population is growing. We'll need 2 additional planets the size of the earth to sustain us all in the year 2100 if we keep this up.

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion 1) Democrats are not the problem.

2) Manned space flight is too dangerous with current technology.

3) Your reasoning for 'investing' in both is flawed; your reasoning is more like colonizing another planet. It seems to me like you aren't even knowledged in astronomy; if you were you'd know that the nearest star is 4 LY away and the circling planets are not even habitable.

4) We already need two planets at our consumption rate; hence the reason why global warming is a problem.

[greenvaepor]

@telinit5

XD Too dangerous? Ask Yuri Gagrin if he thinks it's "too dangerous". Pansies like you are what keeps man from reaching out to the stars, not technology. The Russians seem to put people into space fairly easily. Do you know how many lives have been lost to spaceflight? You are a coward.

Thank god we have entrepreneurs and brave men left in the world that don't buy into your feeble understanding of space travel. You can stay here and wait for the resources to run out if you want.

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 Looks like DARPA doesn't agree with you as well

darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/­2011/2011/05/05_DARPA_Releases­_Request_for_Information_for_t­he_100_Year_Starship_Study.asp­x

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion That is a STUDY; They want to find out if its feasible to make an interstellar spacecraft. Based on current events it doesn't look like anyone is investing in an interstellar spaceship.

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 It's a study indeed.. a 100 YEAR study.. we humans like to investigate, experiment and find out things for ourselves instead of saying "it's not possible" for the getgo.

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion Also, I never said I don't support humans in space (as a matter of fact I'd be one of the first to volunteer to go Mars); all I said was it is not feasible with current technology. Your "100 year starship" isn't current technology; it isn't even in the makes; it is a study that see if the private sector can profit from interstellar space travel.

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 Which is exactly what we want.. no single country, government, company will be able to pay for such a massive undertaking. In a monetary system profit is the driving factor for almost everything we do.

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion Then it's possibly best to fix the system before we undertake in a "profitable" means of interstellar space travel.

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 That's a whole different discussion. Personally I don't like the system and I think it will run us into the ground eventually. An economy based on unlimited growth won't last forever.. what we really need is a resource-based economy. But untill the economists and the rest of the world finally figure that one out we're stuck with what we have.

[CEVOrion]

As for interstellar travel : You can't deny that the groundwork for that is being laid at this very moment.

Take the kepler spacecraft for example. Within the first 4 months of operation it has already found over 1200 stars with possible planets orbiting them and of those 1200 over 400 have multiple planets.

[CEVOrion]

And a french team of scientists just discovered that one of the rocky planets (d) around Gliese lies within the habitable zone of the star (red dwarf).

Certain labs are already experimenting to create artificial magnetic fields to shield spacecraft from radiation.

Ever heard of the VASIMR engine developed by Franklin Chang-Diaz (former US astronaut) ?

What do think is going to happen when the James Webb telescope is launched and we do find a habitable planet within say 10-12 lightyears?

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion VASIMR is not capable of going to the new discovered planet... This is why:

1) Our current technology would get us to Mars in 215 days.

2) VASIMR about 40 days.

3) Current technology to get to the newly discovered planet: 300,000 years

4) Using VASIMR technology: 56,600 years

And biggest point: A space craft would have to be built so big that it could sustain human reproduction, illness, and sustaining at least 10,000 people. This interstellar spaceship would be highly communist...

[CEVOrion]

@telinit5 You're obviously incapable of realizing how fast technology has progressed in the past 4 decades and unable to think 50/100 years ahead.

[Armigo91]

@CEVOrion

We had Hydrogen and oxygen rockets in the 1960s

We have hydrogen and oxygen rockets in the 2011s elevenths, euhm im not sure if thats correct english. Anyway.

We had a saturn 5.

We have a similar design, just split into 2 different pieces.

And here on youtube, some people cynically dare to suggest, we made any progress.

Perhaps on life support, perhaps on biology facts that our scientist discover in the ISS.

Hey wait, thats exactly the same looking abort system as on the saturn V!!!

[CEVOrion]

@Armigo91 There's a couple of things you've overlooked..

1st : If it ain't broke... Don't fix it.

2nd : We don't have any other practical way of launching big payloads into orbit.. liquid / solid fuels are still the way to go at the moment.

3rd : You NEED to have a capsule shaped spacecraft due to the high velocities it will encounter during re-entry on a mission beyond LEO. We simply do not have a better design. Yet.

So yea.. All rockets are going to have the same basic shape.

[nesokretep]

@CEVOrion -- Look up "Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion."

The technology for reaching another star system in less than a century of travel time was designed (and then not developed) over 50 years ago.

If we had a compelling reason to go, we could reach Alpha Centuri in about 40 years travel time.

[fkkkkkenig]

@nesokretep that's nice to know. now how about that terraforming project...

[nesokretep]

@telinit5 -- Refer to my comment about "Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion." Interstellar travel is not as "impossible" as it might seem.

[bradkrit]

@telinit5 Who gives a rats ass if its dangerous? We need ballsy engineers and ballsy pilots to get us back on track. Safety's motto here is "we're not happy until you're not happy" - they are driving up cost and slowing down innovation. Sack up and take America back! WOoooooooooo! I would risk my life to see a new planet, wouldn't you?

[metimmee]

Anyone know what G the crew would experience in that 3 second burst?

[proaudiohd]

Agree manned spaceflight should take us beyond LEO. However the constellation program was years behind schedule, and vastly over budget. In the real world when you don't achieve your job requirements, you don't keep getting paid. NASA has become so bloated and inefficient with every piece costing 10 times what it should.. We have already been to the moon. Does it not make more sense to use the brilliant minds at NASA to advance new frontiers instead of old ones?

[CEVOrion]

@proaudiohd We've already been to the moon, but the moon is not yet in our economic sphere of influence.

To me constellation was nothing more than a proving ground.. prove to private industry en entrepreneurs that continued habitation and gathering of resources on the moon is possible and they will step in to take over.

If we don't go there's no incentive for companies to invest in propulsion technologies and other systems that will make it possible to do that.

watch?v=LX5hbuK7BOQ

[telinit5]

@CEVOrion The private sector has had 40+ years to get involved and they haven't. The private sector is barely getting started with going to the edge of the atmosphere.

[Enatbyte]

That really would be the best way to cook a turkey.

[icanmyshoetie]

stcik you hand on it!

[egofanngetdowncrazy]

thumbs up if you wher counting to

[MaXG65]

You are right about the democ_rats!

[goobermicfunkinstien]

can i take a raide?

[IK1963]

The only diamonds I've ever loved are shock diamonds!

[benner2000]

Those are some beautifully balanced jetsO_O

[Dafodude]

Holy shock diamonds Batman!!

[minimotardking]

that is one awsome firework haha

[ProjectILT]

get like 1000 of these and we can push earth out of orbit lols

[tsns1]

NASA'S got a Bar-B-Q starter.

[ThaddeusMcSpalding]

Are they available for the F-150. Imagine it, one of those mounted horizontally on an f-150 raptor...beauty. Or disgusting carnage, either way, sheer awesomeness would ensue.

[cadian14758]

@ThaddeusMcSpalding F-22 Raptor

[Naturepheonix]

Did it shift the earth? 

[lufthansa330pilot]

made of chuck norrises fart

[misterbonzai08]

Maybe they should divert resources away from the war mongering CIA and put them to deep sea exploration and space flights. It's time to stop pointing satelite cameras at Earth and look to the beyond. Please stop insulting our intelligence with all this "launched to monitor global warming" crap.

[jdl558]

is this at the facility near folsom, ca?

[NelielTuOderswank]

Thats one way to counter global warming.

[Blueberrypassion]

Fucken democrats

[Postie218]

@Blueberrypassion If there was a reason we needed to send men into space to do experiments for Grade School kids and have more than a gee wizz moment, I'd agree. Robotic missions can do all of the same, if not more, and for far less money and danger to human life. Carl Sagen, as much as I disliked his woo woo science, was right when it came to exploring space. If we're going to explore, then lets go, if we're just going to mess around like we have the past 50 plus years, then no.

[master777999]

holy shit that's cool

[manosman97]

i though this shit was gonna go underground !!!

[poholja]

Obama has gutted the domination of spaceflight by government, and its about the only thing he's done right. NASA will get to the moon, Mars, or the belt inside of 10 years if we keep this one policy of Obama's and dump the rest of them.

[jeremyhall420]

Only one thing to say Fuck Obama and his towl head ways.. 

[SKITTL3Z37]

fuck democrats AND republicans, they dont give a fuck about us, they jus want our money for their private jets and expensive golf courses

[tzkelley]

Too bad the Republicans spent all our money on killing people and we don't have enough left for science. Thanks, Republicans!

[amourdutigre]

@tzkelley

you must be some commie obammy stinking democrat who wants to feed the world and sing kumbahya. The only thing that bush did wrong in my opinion is trying to build democratic nations our of our enemies. We should have simply nuked them into radioactive dust.

[billrod48]

Fuck democrats

[blork5]

You can hardly blame a president for the economic crisis created by the wall street casino gamblers and the consequent lack of funding money.

[CEVOrion]

@blork5 You might want to get your facts straight before commenting.

NASA is getting more funding (~6 Billion) under this administration.

It's where this money is being spent on which is of great concern to alot of people..

[cookman283]

@CEVOrion The current government is being smart, they're realising that to get into space and exploit it you need the private sector to get involved. They're realising that once you let the wonders of capitalism loose in space we'll progress alot faster than red tape bound government agencies. Nasa should be kept for science and exploration and development of new technologies which is exactly what it excels at. Hopefully the private sector can get some significant infrastructure up there.

[CEVOrion]

@cookman283 I'm fine with private enterprise providing services to and from LEO but like you say : leave the actual exploring (human and robotic) to NASA. There's lots of talk about developing new technologies in the budget but no clear destination / goal / time frame and that's what worries me. Directionless spending like that will make sure public support diminishes.

[cookman283]

@CEVOrion I definitely agree, direction-less spending is worrying and is something to be avoided at all costs. However I don't really agree that NASA is currently direction-less. I concede there are some issues with the current changes that have occurred, ie, scrapping of the Constellation program, however I think it will just take a while to get some concise time lines appear while NASA re-organizes.

I believe they will get sorted out, however if they don't there will be issues.

[Eagle1Division2]

@CEVOrion Yes! The Space Program needs a REAL president like JFK to give THE WORLD a dream and a goal to work at! People think in terms of "us" and "them", there's always a "they" who people think of as the bad guys. But for those priceless moments, during space exploration, there is NO "us" and "them", it's just us, humans, the people of Earth, reaching out towards the stars, together, making literal progress as a species and a civilization. We need that vision brought back to the people again!

[AxelTiger]

@cookman283

without passion (wich the private sector has) nothing is possible, all you get is a trickling workflow/development

[aaron8862006]

@cookman283 - Agreed! We need space exploration, but we don't want NASA to become the federal space airline...

[Xekido]

@cookman283

What he said. Seriously.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

whether or not they are giving nasa alot, its to let them finish up looking for their new workhorse that doesnt cost as much as a shuttle. nasas funding will dwindle eventually commissioning of privately made vessels into spacestations/govt facilities. they already have a privately made model that is capable of sustained orbits. but i digress, most of the funding is elsewhere and if nasas bill was the only problem, i would laugh and throw a hundred into the donation jar.

[tarkinfish]

@CEVOrion Although this year's budget is 18.7 Billion I believe :]

[Eagle1Division2]

@tarkinfish I think he means ~6 billion more. Though I think that bill got cut back to a much lower number... Or was that the lower number?

[CEVOrion]

@Eagle1Division2 The 18.7 billion is the President's budget request for FY 2012

Which is :

726 million (3.73%) less than the FY 2012 funds authorized in the NASA authorization act of 2010

276 million (1.45%) less than the President's FY 2011 budget request

0.3 million (0.001%) less than the FY 2010 enacted budget

1.41 billion (8.14%) higher than the FY 2008 enacted budget

[mam16cm]

@CEVOrion NASA 6 = Billion. Military = 663.8 Billion. Nice one USA

[CEVOrion]

@mam16cm If those numbers were reversed we would've been mining the moon and asteroids by now.. Maybe even in the beginning phases of harnessing the power of the sun and becoming a type I civilization..

but alas.....

[highvoltagefeathers]

@blork5 ITS A VIDEO ABOUT A ROCKET ENGINE. TAKE YOUR RETARDED POLITICS SOMEWHERE ELSE.

[zazoolious]

I heard the future fuel for the aerospace industry will be WAX. It's actually powerful with oxygen. Meaning more oxygen more combustion. I saw it on discovery. More complex I assume because I'm not about to pay high prices for a romantic night with the misses and see Nasa logo all over my the woman's candle collection

[CEVOrion]

@zazoolious ROFL! You just made my day

Thank you :)

[R5H4D0W]

@zazoolious wax could be an issue with conventional fuels injectors due to higher viscosity though, while wax is much cheaper keeping it in fluid form could be an issue too.

[RvNYC]

Unfortunately, if the economy tanks as it is being predicted. The US space program will cease to exist all together. Space faring is a thing only affluent nations can afford. I have a nagging suspicion the first MArs Landing may well be made by the children of the Chinese now building their nation up.

[MrMilesmert]

that would make a good spead break in space

[driverbob]

Those who are opposed to the space program may change thier tune once China, Russia, and other such countries take over complete dominance of the space around our world. Obama is one of them who wants to destroy us from within, and due to much blind igorance, he is probably going to succeed.

[chaos6575]

The Ares I rocket sucked. If you don't know that , you don't know much about proper rocket design. It was a good decision to cancel it, but should have been done years earlier.

[micahmx85]

Seriously NASA has spent well over 10 billion dollars on the constellation program and obama cut it, what a dick

[adriiPortillo]

so much black smoke, whats this fuel, kerosene + LOX ??

[BaseStationZero]

I'm glad the program was canceled.

Hopefully it will give the NASA team time to rethink the way they do things and spend money.

[CEVOrion]

They already have :

Congratulations with the new "mission to nowhere" and more directionless spending

[pedrobatistamac]

@BaseStationZero what way they do things?! Constellation was the right way!! Do you have a better idea about how to do better?!

[amourdutigre]

Yes, but alas, our wonderful Kenyan President just killed the ARIES program, and for all practical purposes, the American space program.

750 Billion for stimulus package, 300 Billion to keep Government Motors running, 1.2 TRILLION for health care "reform", yet the village idiot in the white house kills the measley 5 billion ARIES program.

Tragic loss for the American space program. We will never catch back up in the race for space.

ADT

[arsenal553]

It was actually called the constelation program. But you're right. Obama cares more about wall street banks than science.

[zeradiddle]

Now its up to the common folk to become the great innovators.

[grozmo1]

Shouldn't you be more focused on people like the wall street bankers, who actually caused reason to have to take these drastic actions in the first place?

Would have happened Obama or otherwise, thanks to your greedy fellow countrymen.

[lithiumdeuteride]

@amourdutigre

I agree that NASA is critically under-funded.

However, of all entities which could design and build a rocket, NASA is by far the most expensive. There are many things that private industry can't do, but getting cargo into low Earth orbit isn't one of them. Let the private sector do the things they know how to do cheaply, and let NASA do the things that the private sector can't risk doing, like developing new propulsion systems. That is a sensible division of labor.

[CosmicDamian]

@amourdutigre Catch back up? What we did coming up on 40 years ago nobody is even close to accomplishing today. We need to do it again today at 10 times the price why?

[FreonRose]

NASA called there's something familiar lurking around Hubble. looks like a humanoid alien in a chair and its flipping us the bird.

[boxa888]

its sad, china will become the next superpower because of stupid shit the gov is doing right now, its depressing, nasa and space propulsion technology has given us so much, how can they do this, so sad. awesome work on the engine, its beautiful how perfect the jets are!

[Bloodgod40]

Obama is a fucking idiot.

[adriiPortillo]

@Bloodgod40 "obama" and "fucking idiot".. thats redundant, those are synonimous. XD

[CEVOrion]

*** Barack Obama has GUTTED US manned spaceflight ***

*** The United States will be STUCK in LEO for yet ANOTHER generation ***

*** Thank you DEMOCRATS ***

[deltasevenma7]

@CEVOrion I think it's a travesty that a bunch of idiot lawyers are deciding what to do with Manned space flight. They have no idea what the heck they are talking about. Let the engineers, pilots, astronauts ect worry about that. they are taking the money for this program to use in worthless programs to buy votes for healthcare.

[miamiguy72]

@CEVOrion AMEN ! BROTHER

[Razvanpinkfloyd]

feet=toast =)))

[helicpterfan18]

what the hell is this .... Diesel ?

[douro20]

What is the fuel for the jettison motor?

[kain90001]

YEAH ! ALL RIGHT !

[megawatts1066]

This was never actually of any use in Apollo, and certainly will have no use in any project using this mess of old parts from the 60s and 80s.

[btardwannabe]

It was of great use in apollo, thankfully, it just never needed to be utilized.

[Spinolio]

@megawatts1066

The airbags in my car have never actually been of any use either, but I'm glad they're there...

[Aze876]

cool... I wonder what kind of fuel it uses, because of the black smoke

[eyepatchplease]

Great question.

[Alpharius93]

do you realise that we are going outside this planet with a bomb under our asses?! lol

[itsmonti1]

I got to have one of them!!! I can roast four turkeys in a minute for Thanksgiving! No more slaving in the kitchen.

[CivilHuman]

lololol

[billybobmacguyver]

That would work if your obviously large family was willing to scrape off the toxic coating before consuming the turkey!!! I'll take the white meat at your table, hold the skin, lol : )

[Starfflame214]

just like my kitchen stove

[Vanidecb]

Can't they just use the system from the Saturn V, modified?

[Vleesball]

I want one !

i could melt so many things with it :O

[lonestar1775]

i would so melt a house.....

[HasanJamilable]

It can be done, it will just require more effort and funding because NASA is trying to open another chapter in rocket science. I still think its worth it.

[neocoders]

Light a cigarette off that, I dare you

[CEVOrion]

Nearly a year has gone by since I posted this video.. and things are looking pretty grim for the Ares I / V architecture atm.

3 billion dollars spend...

another dream shattered...

[proaudiohd]

That's what happens when an enormous bureaucracy is tasked with a project and supplied with money regardless of wether their project is completed. They will simply switch over to a new program and start over. Everyone has a job so what do they care? It's not their money.

[sbentjies]

What is the launch abort system and why would a craft need to be pulled away from it? Is this like the escape tower that sat on top of the Apollo capsule?

[Wyrmshadow]

yes

[Gustagoostaf]

The abort system, is meant to jettison the crew capsule in case a problem arises prior to the point of no return. The capsule has to be pulled off because the ares 1 uses a solid rocket first stage that cannot be disabled once fired. The main difference between the apollo and the constellation launch abort systems (in my opinion) is the new abort system has a "cap" that covers the capsule, another large difference is the diameter of the capsule which is increased from 12.8 feet to 16.5 feet. (-:

[El135o]

Looks like we could have an Apollo 8 with sooty windows all over again!

[pablojr2]

possibly, but i believe there's shield that completely covers the command module.

[serge933]

Yea, its a fiberglass composite. Basicly a shell for CM

[Kenzofeis]

The plan on installing wipers his time

[CosmicDamian]

The first test flight was in the mid 1960's. You are kidding yourself if you think we're going back to the moon.

[AERO1779]

The hell we wont!!

[blahdob]

thruster sounds OFF!

[Fritz641]

bout time NASA makes an escape system, ROSKOSMOS (russian/soviet space agency) has had one of these operational for more than 30 years already.

[MegaShaft2000]

We had escape systems on our rockets back in the 1960's.

[Seaprimate]

They have the wire thing on the shuttle launch pad, then in the air they have the Return to Launch Site maneuvers or in a pinch they can land in Europe. If the shuttle itself is damaged, the crew is screwed though.

[btardwannabe]

There are contingency missions for every flight..

[hellbringer85]

I am so glad were not trying to get a oversized glider into space. this should be good. i heard the first test flight is mid-next year?

[TheIncredibleKrunk]

200000lbf of thrust

[tiapon]

wo!!!! thats amazingly fast!

[stuartthegrant]

Seemed a very short "Burn" to me, However All one requires to jettison the spacecraft.

Lets go back, and stay ime with "MrFireAss" on this one.

[sanchomurphy1]

Cool stuff!

[EdEditz]

Wauw what weird stereo sound.

[penasco98]

This is totallyu AMAZING, and what "most" dont realize is the effort and time involved to make this happen so precisly is a lot!

EXCELLENT work men!

Keep up the great job!

[michchap]

Thank you for posting this video. Project Constellation and the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle are an exciting new chapter for America's space program. I have very much enjoyed monitoring the development of Project Constellation over the past several months. While engineering and technical challenges always arise during the development phase, I am confident that the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle will be operational by the middle of the next decade.

[MrFireAss]

Im with you on this one, man will walk on the moon again by 2025 (and stay there this time)

[shizzle5150]

Tax the shit out of me but get us off this rock before I die. Give me a twinkle of hope for humanity. Sorry you guys only got 1/1000th of a percent of our military spending.