Ares I-X Re-entry and Splashdown

Aerial observers recorded the ascent, separation, and re-entry of the Ares I-X flight test vehicle during its launch on October 28, 2009. Once splashdown occurred, the booster was retrieved by a NASA dive team aboard the recovery ship Freedom Star, and then towed back to Kennedy Space Center for analysis.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Ares
• Constellation
• rocket
• re-entry
• parachutes
• test
• flight

[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.

[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.

[Gatedialer]

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

[berger1980]

Fire the chute rigger!

[cheintzelman1]

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

[kurnano]

@AresTV

What?!??!

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

[Infidelerious]

Best ride in the park.

[taku221]

keep to catch the camera well.

[karlrob76]

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

[oscarlithgow]

AWESOME..!!!

[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.

[TimeLapseSteve]

It's a PrandtlGlauert cloud. Google it.

[rnttester]

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