Ares 1-X Rocket Test Flight Launch

This is NASA's first flight test for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals. The flight test will provide NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.

Rising into the Florida sky, the 327-foot rocket thunders away from the launch pad, marking the first time a new vehicle has launched from the complex since the first space shuttle launch in 1981.

The mission will last two minutes, during which constant data received from the rocket.

At about the T+2 minute point in the flight, the upper stage simulator and first stage will separate at approximately 130,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. The unpowered simulator will splash down in the ocean. The first stage will be fired for a controlled ocean landing with parachutes that will allow recovery by one of NASA's booster recovery ships, while the other ship tracks the upper stage.

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• Ares 1-X
• NASA
• Constellation

[A86]

This rocket has been in the planning for years. It has little or nothing to do with Iran or North Korea. It's the launch vehicle for the Orion command/service module that will transport astronauts to the moon. The Ares has no weapons warhead and it's too powerful for launching intercontinental bombs. It would just launch them into orbit instead of drop them over another country.

This flight was to test the craft and prove to Pres. Obama that it works.

[BurfTheMagicDragon]

How exactly was the separation botched? The pyro separated the stages, the booster decel motors fired, and the booster tumble motors fired. There was also no recontact even though the upper stage was not powered so it was closer than it would be for Ares I. Projectiles have a tendency to tumble unless there is something to help prevent it. Why do you think they put fletchings on arrows? Why do you think they rifle gun barrels to spin the bullet?

[mainstreetgse]

@kabreu54 your smoking dope, do your homework before commenting. Ares1 is almost the size of Saturn5 and is much taller than Saturn 1b.

[mainstreetgse]

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Constellation will end up like Shuttle, a welfare program for government jobs. This rocket is very problematic and is far less capable than its private counterpart the Falcon9. Ares1 would be a big mistake and needlessly waste taxpayer money because we already have a better system with Falcon9 that actually works.

[kureselisinis]

oo-ooh i got a rocket

oo-ooh you're going on it

oo-ooh you're never coming back

[ti994apc]

@40390576

From what I have read, the initial explosion is survivable on both liquid and solid explosions. The problem is the parachute. Liquid explosions you get away with being a 1-2 hundred yards away and the fuel vaporizes in seconds. Like when Soyuz safely ejected on the pad. Solid fuel, its best to be at least 5 miles away (see youtube delta II explosion and you will see what I am talking about). Molten shunks of fuel will destroy a chute as it rains down.

[ti994apc]

@40390576

Yes I agree, Saturn V had a higher chance of exploding 'catastrophically". I have heard that if any one of its main engines had failed it would have been catastrophic. However, if Saturn V had exploded (or any liquid fueled rocket) the rocket stops and their is a fireball. The escape system has to pull away from a stopped vehicle. Ares is different, it has to pull away from moving projectiles because of solid fuel. Thus, the escape system must be bigger, heavier, etc.

[geomodelrailroader]

test 3 Ares X take to the skies but a problem with torn parachutes had Obama tell them to start from scratch.

[geomodelrailroader]

@A86 lol my uncle spent 2 years building this thing and all the hard-work payed off. but too bad NASA gave it torn parachutes.

[ti994apc]

@kabreu54 What are you talking about? I would do your research next time before you reply. Saturn 1B is "224 ft tall." Ares1 is a staggering "308 ft" tall ** 1/3rd taller than Saturn 1B.

[kabreu54]

@ti994apc

You are smoking dope.  Ares 1 doesn't come close to Saturn 1B. Agree with the need to find alternate launch, but, not for the exagerated claims in your reply.