Tried to post that but kept getting deleted.
Need the aliens guy for this thread for sure!
Projectile dysfunction.
This is failure is the responsibilty of the feckless hussein. He has dismantled the best health care system in the world, the finest military in history and President Ronald Reagan’s pride, NASA.
But the Muslims feel good about themselves, that’s all that matters to NASA.
NASA = Need A Second Antares
Someone should rework this video and play it with a voiceover of election returns for certain democrats.
not sure why this is no longer in breaking news
Wow!!!! NICE!!
As tragic as it may be, you just have to admire such a grand explosion! (though very expensive)
We should have hired the Russians to launch it..... /cry
In the spirit of this Administration, NASA claimed the rocket was martyred.
Yep, we’re no longer exceptional. Thanks, obama. The only thing that could make this worse would be if its payload was ebola spores or whatever.
Ask Russia if we can ride in the back of their rocket.
The Orbital Sciences Antares light-to-medium-lift launcher has two modified NK-33 in its first stage, a solid Castor 30-based second stage and an optional solid or hypergolic third stage.[16] The NK-33s are imported from Russia to the United States and modified into Aerojet AJ26s, which involves removing some electrical harnessing, adding U.S. electronics, qualifying it for U.S. propellants, and modifying the steering system.[1]
The Antares rocket was successfully launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on April 21, 2013. This marked the first successful launch of the NK-33 heritage engines built in early 1970s.[17]
Aerojet has agreed to recondition sufficient NK-33s to serve Orbital’s 16-flight NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract. Beyond that, it has a stockpile of 23 1960s and 1970s era engines. Kuznetsov no longer manufactures the engine, and the lack of a continuing supplier brings into question the long-term viability of Antares. To address this, Orbital has sought to buy RD-180 engines, but maker NPO Energomash’s contract with United Launch Alliance prevents this. Orbital has sued ULA for this, alleging anti-trust violations.[18] Aerojet has offered to work with Kuznetsov to restart production of new NK-33 engines, to assure Orbital of an ongoing supply.[19]
NK-33 and NK-43 are derived from the earlier NK-15 and NK-15V engines, respectively.
The engines are high-pressure, regeneratively cooled staged combustion cycle bipropellant rocket engines, and use oxygen-rich preburners to drive the turbopumps. The turbopumps require subcooled liquid oxygen (LOX) to cool the bearings. These kinds of burners are highly unusual, since their hot, oxygen-rich exhaust tends to attack metal, causing burn-through failures. The United States had not much investigated oxygen-rich combustion technologies until the Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator project in the early 2000s.[2] The Soviets, however, perfected the metallurgy behind this method. The nozzle was constructed from corrugated metal, brazed to an outer and inner lining, giving a simple, light, but strong structure. In addition, since the NK-33 uses subcooled LOX and kerosene, which have similar densities, a single rotating shaft could be used for both turbopumps.[3] Given its longer, heavier nozzle, the NK-43 ratio in vacuum is slightly heavier, with a thrust-to-weight ratio of about 120:1.[4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33
You guys realize that this wasn’t a NASA-assembled vehicle, right?
I guess they should have stopped at 107% main engine thrust.
Antares maelstrom, Perdition’s flames.
Russian engines...