Posted on 06/27/2016 9:02:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA will test-fire a booster for the world's most powerful rocket Tuesday morning (June 28), and you can watch the explosive action live online.
A solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket — which the agency is developing to blast astronauts toward Mars and other deep-space destinations — will fire for 2 minutes Tuesday at a facility in Utah, beginning at 10:05 a.m. EDT (1405 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV; coverage starts at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).
NASA will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) Tuesday to discuss the results of the test. You can listen to audio of the press conference here at Space.com as well, courtesy of NASA.
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Tuesday's test, like the March 2015 trial, will take place in Promontory, Utah, at a facility owned by aerospace company Orbital ATK, an SLS partner.
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I read that making big boosters isn’t a problem - managing the vibration resonances as it fires is the problem. They can rip the rocket to pieces.
What is its power relative to the Saturn 5?
Just about the worst defect is burning at the interface between propellant and the casing.
That's why polysulfide rubber-based propellants are literally Vulcanized to their casings -- in huge autoclaves.
It's not called, "rocket science" for no reason... '-)
Did they really mean to say.. “Watch the EXPLOSIVE action”?
ATK has been making these kind of boosters for a long time and has become quite good at it.
Just wait until Obama sees THIS on the news!
Oh man! He’s gonna be pissed!
NASA is supposed to be doing Muslim outreach, not this science-y, rocket-y, stuff.
What is its power relative to the Saturn 5?
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According to Wiki it looks like the two solid boosters combined would be 7.2 million pounds of thrust. The Saturn was 7.5. The SLS also has a center core which would make it altogether more powerful than the Saturn V.
No prob. Just strap some Musloids to it and there you go.
We still have a space program? Oh how we’ve lost our way under Obama.
Or so I understood the need to shut off one engine.
Does this one have a made in Russia label on it, like all those going to the Space Station?
Solid rocket boosters & Utah...Morton-Thiokol must be “Orbital-ATK” now. Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol
Bookmark.
I wish it had a made in Russia price tag.
I don't know where they are with the Orion SM engine, now apparently called the "Orion European Service Module." though because it was the same components used in the ESA ATV program, I suppose one could claim it too was now "in the can."
Quite a design committee, though not necessarily built by the lowest bidder.
Design work on the F1 began in the early 1950’s. It was an incredible engine for its time.
Even though the new SLS will have more thrust that the Saturn V, it won’t be able to lift as much tonnage to orbit. Of course the real purpose of SLS is to keep Boeing and its politicians rich. I think Boeing supplies better hookers than everybody else.
I hope they are using more than two O-rings.
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