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heng44
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posted 07-23-2011 02:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

With more than 23 times the power output of the Hoover Dam, the Constellation Program's Ares I-X test rocket zooms off Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket produces 2.96 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and reaches a speed of 100 mph in eight seconds. At right is space shuttle Atlantis, poised on Launch Pad 39A for liftoff, targeted for November 16. Liftoff of Ares I-X was at 11:30 a.m. EDT Oct. 28, 2009.

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ASCAN1984
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posted 07-23-2011 02:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ASCAN1984   Click Here to Email ASCAN1984     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This shot that was once a very happy one is now so so sad.

Lasv3
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posted 07-23-2011 02:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lasv3   Click Here to Email Lasv3     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice shot, both projects history now I'm afraid...

GACspaceguy
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posted 07-23-2011 04:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I can't believe it has been nearly two years since I learned all about "triboelectification." We were there and was really cool experience.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-23-2011 08:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The five segment booster lives on as a side mounted first stage booster for the Space Launch System.

ATK is also still going forward with its Liberty launch system as a commercial launcher.

A five segment solid rocket booster is currently being assembled in Utah for a test firing later this fall.

So like Orion, while the name has changed, the lessons learned from the Constellation tests and hardware continue to be applicable to the next generation spacecraft and rockets.

GACspaceguy
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posted 07-23-2011 01:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Interesting approach. I know a few segments were damaged on the Ares I-X (due to a parachute failure) but was there a plan to reuse any of the flown segments or where they considered "overloaded"?

astro-nut
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posted 07-24-2011 07:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for astro-nut   Click Here to Email astro-nut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another great photo. Thank you for sharing with us. It would of have been neat to have Ares as a manned launch rocket.

tegwilym
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posted 07-25-2011 02:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for tegwilym   Click Here to Email tegwilym     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice photo. I wasn't totally sold on Constellation, but at one time that was the future.

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