Atlas V Solid Rocket Booster Test

Static firing of Aerojet SRB used on heavier Atlas V configurations. Once ignited, the booster burns for 90 seconds before burning out. The Atlas V rocket can carry up to 5 of these boosters, as of yet that configuration was only used to launch the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft.

Notice the acoustic wave at ignition propagating into the distance and kicking dust up. The booster can be seen moving a bit forward at the moment of ignition due to thrust forward.

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• atlas
• rocket
• aerojet
• solid
• booster
• test

[George19881988]

This type of rocket booster provides about 860,000 LBF (pounds of thrust) and five of these are used to take the Saturn V rocket in to space. Amazingly, each one of these rockets only provides about 25-30% of the thrust provided by the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters, which provide approximately 3,000,000 LBF at maximum! Equally amazing, the smaller engines on the Shuttle provide approximately 510,000 LBF at maximum, which is around 60% of the power of this booster alone.

[ugowar]

@George19881988 What do you mean the Saturn V rocket?

[zombieX111222333]

dude that thing slides forward when it frires geez NASA be careful with that shit

[ugowar]

@zombieX111222333 This is not NASA.

[planedrawer]

Hey dude, you got a light!

[demonator65]

wow imagine standing in front of that strapped to the grount with titainium chains and shackles that are anchored 200 feet under ground...dude that shit would turn your damn bones into cinders...

then it would turn your cinders into cinders then blow you away with the dust...lol

[GurBurProductions]

Boom roasted

[ryantaylor64]

chuck norse cigar lighter

[chunkstyle5]

@George19881988 You mean Atlas V, not Saturn V.

[eb62224]

thats a big candle!! lol

[eb62224]

@ugowar the most powerfull rocket ever made, i think....

[countryfarmer1969]

@ugowar Saturn V rockets were used on the Apollo missions