Ares 1-X Launch [HD]

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.

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• Ares
• Ares 1-X
• NASA
• Spaceflight
• Launch

[jjlucash]

Is there a date for the next test launch? I know that a bunch of ideas are still on the table.

[basvg1]

@jjlucash This rocket has been cancelled by Obama. Some weeks ago, NASA made a new design for a rocket, called the SLS, a heavy launch rocket. They plan to have the first test flight in 2017.

[RichardEllisxyz]

@GreatExterminator One of the things they were testing for was the G-loads on ignition. Word has it when the SRBs light on the Shuttle the shock is immense. The craft and occupants of Orion WILL get a very different ride, sharp "hit" & great acceleration on ignition.Perhaps SRBs for first stage will be super reliable..what if a Challenger 'O' ring type failure occured??I think the stage would "hold together" despite the flare blowout. A reliable stage.

[basvg1]

@RichardEllisxyz

I think an O-ring failure won't be a big problem for the Ares rocket. The problem with Challenger was, that the exhaust coming out of the leak burned the External Tank with all the fuel. But if there's no tank, you can't burn it...

It will cause some drifting to the side, but maybe they can correct it. At least they won't be killed.

Just my view, it might be totally different, I'm not an expert...

[dechm4af]

i watched this from my house in Orlando...i could not hear it...but i could see it...it was awesome...i can not wait till they launch the big one Ares V...i want to see that!

[MMUSCICC]

greAT video!

[SR71U2ube]

wait... im confused... was it supposed to tumble like that?

[bibbler227]

@rss0246 LOL.... "Liberty" will never fly... Falcon 9 and the Atlas 5 are the future. Again, this thing will fly, let alone 2013.. LOL!

[rss0246]

@bibbler227 Sorry, Mr. Bibble. You're dreaming. NINE (9) finicky Merlin engines on the SpaceX Falcon: 1.1 million pounds of thrust. ONE (1) five-segment SRB as the Ares I (or now the ATK / Astrium "Liberty" launcher): 3.2 million pounds of thrust - with essentially no moving parts. Also, both stages of Liberty are already man-rated. It could be flying out of KSC by 2013 and carrying 6 U.S. astros to the ISS in the Orion spacecraft soon afterwards... NO CONTEST !!! : ]

[rss0246]

@basvg1

Except for using two 5-segment SRBs for the first two minutes of flight, the SLS "Heavy Lifter" has little to do with Ares I. It also will not fly for a decade, if ever. More important is the proposal of ATK and Astrium to build a privatized version of Ares I, dubbed "Liberty" which would use one 5-segment SRB for the first stage and the highly successful and man-rated core rocket of the Arianne V as the second stage. Everyone who thinks Ares I had merit should be pushing for that.

[soverato3]

@basvg1 i hate obama........

[jjlucash]

@basvg1 Okay, thanks. So much chaos since the 'big announcement' last year and I lost track. I like this new design.

[TheFerchopp]

2:26 alguien sabe porque burbujea la pintura, me da mucha intriga, si es por el calor o que.