Damage to Ares 1-X booster and LC-39B - 09.11.10

While the Ares I-X was technically a success, there was a bit of damage to both the pad and solid rocket booster. ?According to NASASpaceFlight.com's L2 section the vehicle actually was supposed to launch at a bit of an angle to help it clear the Fixed Service Structure or FSS. ?The known downside of this was a couple of seconds of the massively hot Ares first stage exhaust hitting the FSS. ?While we were speculating about the apparent angle at liftoff during our live coverage, that was in fact planned but did damage pad 39B in the process.

NASASpaceFlight.com L2 Resources:
Ares I-X SRB additional pictures of damage - http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19398.0
Launch Complex 39B additional pictures of damage - http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19300.0
Underwater SRB pictures - http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19283.0

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ares i-x
• 39b
• launch
• rocket
• srb
• damage
• nasa
• spaceflight

[Zoomer30]

You can see it bukle at impact.  Ouch.

[1976Bukkits]

L2 if full of it.. why should have to pay to get access to something that has already been paid for by the tax payer????

[Zoomer30]

NASA is it's own worst enemy, people are on to them. If they say it's gonna cost $5 billion they really mean $10 billion so what the he'll let's spend $20 billion. I mean they spent (wasted) the same amount on the pos tower they won't even ever use that SpaceX used to fly Falcon 9. So SX is flying actual hardware and NASA just wastes money.

[Ninjaproness]

lol FFS that is For Fuck Sake

[bishop51807]

@divedevil985 Prove IT! the war rose to 5B to 7B than 12B a month but if you have more eveidence prove it I welcome to it. If all you have is just conspiracy and speculation get a life my numbers are from real sources including nasa!

[divedevil985]

@bishop51807 Your numbers and conclusions are all wrong.

[ti994apc]

I think all the Apollo guys are working for SpaceX now. That is Falcon works and Ares is still playing around with Solid rocket boosters.

[mianbentley]

@1976Bukkits, all that website does is give armchair spectators a forum to think they know more than College-Educated Aerospace Engineers.

A FOIA request and a phonecall can get you ANY info you want from NASA...

Why pay someone from England to profit off of our taxpayer dollars?

[MrHalosniper117]

its 9/11

[duncanedwards036]

@1976Bukkits Because L2 finds it, collects it, puts it on a nice website for you to use, and archives it. That costs money and has value to the users. If you want to go to the trouble of doing all that for yourself then have at it.