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Posted 28 October 2009 - 06:26 PM
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NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:28:13 PM GMT
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the solid rocket motor will be recovered at sea for later inspection. The simulated upper stage and Orion crew module, and launch abort system will not be recovered.
Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
› View larger image
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.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:28:13 PM GMT
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the solid rocket motor will be recovered at sea for later inspection. The simulated upper stage and Orion crew module, and launch abort system will not be recovered.
Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
› View larger image
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.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 06:34 PM
TALM, on 28 October 2009 - 05:59 PM, said:
Thanks for all the Info Waspie D.
Thanks should go to NASA. They provide the info, I just repost it.
DONTEATUS, on 28 October 2009 - 07:23 PM, said:
What no video`s
Give me a chance, I've only just got in from work.
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 06:40 PM
ARES I X Test Flight
28 October 2009
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range.
Source: NASA Channel - YouTube
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"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 07:25 PM
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
The NASA press release is reproduced below:
Oct. 27, 2009
Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley EdwardsHeadquarters, Washington
202-358-0668/1756
grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov
Lynnette Madison
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
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RELEASE : 09-252
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range.
"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a sub-orbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the solid rocket motor will be recovered at sea for later inspection. The simulated upper stage, Orion crew module, and launch abort system will not be recovered.
"The most valuable learning is through experience and observation," said Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager. "Tests such as this -- from paper to flight -- are vital in gaining a deeper understanding of the vehicle, from design to development."
Wednesday's flight offered an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, facilities, and ground operations - important data for future space vehicles. During the flight, a range of performance data was relayed to the ground and also stored in the onboard flight data recorder. The 700 sensors mounted on the vehicle provide flight test engineering data to correlate with computer models and analysis. The rocket's sensors gathered information in several areas, including assembly and launch operations, separation of the vehicle's first and second stages, controllability and aerodynamics, the re-entry and recovery of the first stage and new vehicle design techniques.
The Ares I-X efforts are led by the Ares I-X mission management office of the Constellation Program, based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in Washington. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designed and built the vehicle's upper stage mass simulator. NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., provided aerodynamic characterization, flight test vehicle integration and the crew module/launch abort system mass simulator. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with contractor support, provided management for the development of Ares I-X avionics, roll control, and first stage systems. The Kennedy Space Center provided operations and associated ground activities and launch operations.
Contractors for Ares I-X include Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, of Salt Lake City for the first stage solid rocket booster and Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville for the roll control system. Jacobs Engineering of Tullahoma, Tenn., supported by Lockheed Martin of Denver, provided the avionics systems. United Space Alliance of Houston and ATK Launch Systems support the ground systems and launch operations.
For information about Ares I-X, visit:
Source: NASA - Press Release 09-252
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"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 07:27 PM
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Teamwork Brings About Successful Ares I-X Launch
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:18:57 PM GMT
Outstanding teamwork was the theme of the Ares I-X postlaunch news conference as the successful flight test was discussed.
"I can't say enough about this team," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "They've been together probably a little over three years now, and they went from a concept to flying this vehicle in that period of time, which is the first time this has been done by a human spaceflight team in a long time."
Referring to the weather, which was the only issue of the day, Constellation Program Manager Jeff Hanley said, "We were ready when Mother Nature was ready, and we took our opportunity and what a great outcome. We're very proud of the result."
"It was a spectacular day," said Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager. "The vehicle flew even better than we expected."
"It is just a fantastic day," said Launch Director Ed Mango. "The team really excelled. I can't say enough about the folks who worked together to go make this thing happen. It was a great team, and as you can tell, it was a great vehicle."
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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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.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
Teamwork Brings About Successful Ares I-X Launch
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:18:57 PM GMT
Outstanding teamwork was the theme of the Ares I-X postlaunch news conference as the successful flight test was discussed.
"I can't say enough about this team," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "They've been together probably a little over three years now, and they went from a concept to flying this vehicle in that period of time, which is the first time this has been done by a human spaceflight team in a long time."
Referring to the weather, which was the only issue of the day, Constellation Program Manager Jeff Hanley said, "We were ready when Mother Nature was ready, and we took our opportunity and what a great outcome. We're very proud of the result."
"It was a spectacular day," said Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager. "The vehicle flew even better than we expected."
"It is just a fantastic day," said Launch Director Ed Mango. "The team really excelled. I can't say enough about the folks who worked together to go make this thing happen. It was a great team, and as you can tell, it was a great vehicle."
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
› View larger image
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.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever" - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky 1857 - 1935
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 08:49 PM
Ares I-X Lifts Off
Mission managers watch as NASA's Ares I-X rocket launches from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. 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.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Source: NASA - Multimedia - Image of the Day Gallery
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever" - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky 1857 - 1935
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 28 October 2009 - 10:31 PM
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever" - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky 1857 - 1935
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Wow...
Reminded me of a time 42 years ago, from the other pad 39 (A), when the last brand new manned launch vehicle lifted off, un-manned on 9 November 1967, 08:00 EST...
Saturn 501, Apollo 4.
Today, 28 October, 2009 should be remembered.
The beginning of the Constellation flight program happened today. The next generation of manned spaceflight is underway!
No technical issues, and a fantastic flight.
Kudos go to Kathy Winters, Weather Officer, who really had her hands full this morning. A superb launch team, a superb design, and a superb flight.
I have to echo the Center Director this morning after the launch, when he told the crew that he had tears in his eyes watching this baby fly so beautifully. He spoke to the complete lack of technical issues, and said, "You know what that means? You people are friggin awesome!"
And, they were awesome.
Three years ago, ARES was essentially a blank sheet of paper. Today, these folks made it all happen, and superbly.
And Lord, does she haul the freight!
There have been alot of challenges, and alot of naysayers.
I think the latter can stuff it today.
Reminded me of a time 42 years ago, from the other pad 39 (A), when the last brand new manned launch vehicle lifted off, un-manned on 9 November 1967, 08:00 EST...
Saturn 501, Apollo 4.
Today, 28 October, 2009 should be remembered.
The beginning of the Constellation flight program happened today. The next generation of manned spaceflight is underway!
No technical issues, and a fantastic flight.
Kudos go to Kathy Winters, Weather Officer, who really had her hands full this morning. A superb launch team, a superb design, and a superb flight.
I have to echo the Center Director this morning after the launch, when he told the crew that he had tears in his eyes watching this baby fly so beautifully. He spoke to the complete lack of technical issues, and said, "You know what that means? You people are friggin awesome!"
And, they were awesome.
Three years ago, ARES was essentially a blank sheet of paper. Today, these folks made it all happen, and superbly.
And Lord, does she haul the freight!
There have been alot of challenges, and alot of naysayers.
I think the latter can stuff it today.
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Posted 29 October 2009 - 12:44 AM
MID, on 28 October 2009 - 11:58 PM, said:
Reminded me of a time 42 years ago, from the other pad 39 (A), when the last brand new manned launch vehicle lifted off, un-manned on 9 November 1967, 08:00 EST...
As I was yet to have my second birthday on that date I have no memory of that momentous first flight of the Saturn V.
I am reminded of the last time a new vehicle was launched from LC-39, that April day when Columbia leaped from the pad and heralded the shuttle era. However I am even more sharply reminded of the last unmanned launch from LC-39, that of Skylab 1, in May 1973, with the last flight of a Saturn V from Pad 39A. There is an interesting parallel. As the Saturn V was being prepared for an unmanned flight on the other pad (39B) a Saturn IB was being prepared for a manned flight (Skylab 2). This time of course we have the Ares 1-X on 39B whilst Atlantis is being prepared on 39A.
I stand to be corrected, but I believe that these are the only 2 instances when two different types of launch vehicle have stood on the pads at LC-39. Of course if the Constellation programme returns America to the Moon then this will become the norm, with pad 39B being used for the manned Ares I launches and 39A for the unmanned flights of the mighty Ares V.
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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I stand to be corrected, but I believe that these are the only 2 instances when two different types of launch vehicle have stood on the pads at LC-39. Of course if the Constellation programme returns America to the Moon then this will become the norm, with pad 39B being used for the manned Ares I launches and 39A for the unmanned flights of the mighty Ares V.
I do believe you're absolutely correct Waspie.
And personally, I cannot wait to see the behemoth ARES V sitting on the pad down the road from ARES I...with the latter awaiting a four man crew on a mission to the Moon!
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Posted 29 October 2009 - 11:15 PM
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Ares I-X Completes a Successful Flight Test
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Oct. 28, 2009, at 11:30 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
› View larger image
The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the solid rocket motor, which were recovered at sea and will be towed back to Florida by the booster recovery ship, Freedom Star, for later inspection. The simulated upper stage and Orion crew module, and the launch abort system will not be recovered.
Following a successful flight test, the first
stage of the Ares I-X rocket bobs in the
Atlantic Ocean as it awaits retrieval by
the booster recovery ship Freedom Star.
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The flight test is expected to provide NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles, which could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
Targeted Launch Date: Oct. 28
Launch Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Ares I-X Completes a Successful Flight Test
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Oct. 28, 2009, at 11:30 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.
The stars and stripes on the American
flag reflect NASA's commitment to
teamwork as the Constellation Program's
Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch
Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the solid rocket motor, which were recovered at sea and will be towed back to Florida by the booster recovery ship, Freedom Star, for later inspection. The simulated upper stage and Orion crew module, and the launch abort system will not be recovered.
Following a successful flight test, the first
stage of the Ares I-X rocket bobs in the
Atlantic Ocean as it awaits retrieval by
the booster recovery ship Freedom Star.
Image credit: United Space Alliance
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The flight test is expected to provide NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles, which could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit.
Source: NASA - Ares I-X Flight Test
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
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Posted 29 October 2009 - 11:49 PM
Waspie_Dwarf, on 29 October 2009 - 07:15 PM, said:
The simulated upper stage and Orion crew module, and the launch abort system will not be recovered.
I don't suppose there's be any point in that.
Note how, without guidance and power, the SUS almost immediately tumbled sideways in the airstream. She just fell 25 miles into the ocean...
I think we're talking a pile of bashed-in metal laying at the bottom someplace. But she served her purpose, as an aerodynamically sound, and accurate mass mock up for flight test purposes.
A real beauty, this thing!