LIVESTREAM ARIANE-5 LAUNCH

>>7815105
Not a chance an Ariane 5 ever blows up.

Not worth watching.

>>7815149
This. I only ever watch rocket launches for two reasons; if it is launching something or someone interesting or if I think that it may blow up.

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>>7815156
>>7815149
>plebs

Where my space bros?

>>7815149
The first Ariane that was launced blew up.
It's a nice rocket though.

Thx for the heads up OP.

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>>7815149
Still
>nice powerful rocket
>beautiful tropical scenery
>showing the world how GTO is fucking done
But I agree Vega launches are more "exciting" since it's a very recent and modern rocket.

>>7815233
>T Minus 2 Hours: 16 Minutes
Bump

>>7815334
that rocket looks cool as fuck

>>7815341
Italian design. Are you surprised?

not spacex not innovative or going to blow up why bother

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>>7815341
>>7815334

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>>7815368
>>7815149
>>7815156

>muh spacex
>muh splosions

Ameritards pls go

>>7815368
>blowing up every time they try their shitty landings
>every time it's a different excuse
>innovative
They're just amateurish. Why do you think Ariane beats them? Besides that ground landing was only possible because they were sending a very light payload (2000kg) into an earth-grazing orbit. Not exactly impressive when Ariane sends 5 times that mass into fucking GTO.

>>7815377
but does their rocket land
didtnt think so

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>>7815377
This. Rosetta was 3000kg and we sent it to Jupiter and back around a fucking comet.

F9 is a nice rocket though, but people over-inflate their performance because muh Elon.

>>7815377
why do you think its way harder to do a bigget payload? its just a bigger tube with more gas its the same concept doing the same thing meanwhile spacex is actually trying new things that will push the industry forward

>>7815373
The funny thing is that the reason Intelsat picked Arianne for this EpicNG launch (and certainly the next ones) is because there is no other rocket capable of lifting these sats. The only other option would be a Detla 4 heavy, which costs ... twice the price.

And they are not naive enough to wait for the spacex rocket that's perpetually 6 months away from maiden launch.

>>7815432
I guess a Proton could have done the job as well but then there's the question of reliability

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Fireworks technology is for entertainment.
Real space travel uses field propulsion.
Totally boring, the craft just disappears.

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60 Minutes Bitches!

Get hype

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>>7815390
Erm, not really. It's not just about having more fuel. Ariane 5 really is a more advanced rocket.
>3 stages vs. 2 for F9
>Vulcain II engine has an ISP of 434.2s vs. 311s for the Merlin (SpaceX fans like to say the Merlin as "the highest thrust-to-weight ratio ever" but has never been a figure of merit of rocket engines for two basic reasons: 1. the quasi-totality of a rocket's mass lies in the fuel and 2. just look at srb's for thrust-to-weight ratio above several thousands since it's just a nozzle basically. ISP has always been the actual figure of merit of a engine, along with it thrust of course)
>novel vibration reduction techniques for the srb's that even got JPL interested

13 MINUTES
GET IN HERE

>>7815513
You know you can't directly compare the Vulcain and Merlin ISP because they use completely different propellants right? Vulcain uses hydrolox so it's always going to have better ISP.

Gotta love that English sound track from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou.

>>7815582
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

>>7815582
idk i think spacex music was better than this beep song

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>>7815582

>>7815586
They were playing some chilled music up until 5 minutes ago, then it changed to this looping beep bullshit

STOP IT MOTHERFU

>>7815594
>Silent countdown with text

This is worse than the beeping to be honest

COUNTDOWN 60 SEC

>>7815513
Comparing the isps of the two engines on their own isn't really a good comparison. The Vulcain II's superior isp isn't because it's a more advanced engine. It's because ESA went with a LOX/LH fuel mix for Araine-5 and a LOX/LH engine will almost always have a better isp than a LOX/Kerosene engine.

T MINUS 10

ladies & gentelemen

OY VEY

Theh guy misseh a tooh

we got space figured out still working on that dentistry

12 minutes

>ARIAN FAMILY
kek

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This is comfy as fuck

Are they literally playing the french translation over the english audio track?

Black people working on rockets

This is like Star Trek shit

>>7815570
>>7815599
An engine is tailored to a specific type of propellant. It's inherent to the engine. You couldn't put kerosene into a vulcan nor hydrolox into a merlin. Comparison holds.

qt spotted

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That girl was qt as fuck

QT ROCKET SCIENTIST

>the guys trying to use their screens as smartphones

kek

>>7815640
came here to remark that

>>7815638
>>7815640
>>7815641
brb going to French Guiana

If dubs crash

>>7815650
roll

>>7815650
>ariane V failing

nah.

10 SECONDSM OTHERUCKERS

that was quick

>>7815632
This post is Dunning-Kruger in effect.

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NICE

I guess onboard cams are too much advanced for the french.

>>7815672
BTFO

move along people

>>7815672
you spoke too soon

>the ferring waved goodbye
sleep tight ferring

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>>7815673
whoops.

>>7815377
>you can avoid getting killed by never leaving your room
This is mindset of Arianespace

>>7815665
This post is butthurt. SpaceX could've used a more advanced propellant, but they've chosen kerosene (just like soyuz). So don't call the merlin a particularly advanced engine.

>>7815683
You don't even know why they're using kerolox do you?

>>7815667
can't watch, did it splode?

>>7815632
Yes. You can't put LH2 in a merlin or KErosene in a Vulcain II. That was my point. That's exactly why you shouldn't compare them based solely on isp. A LOX/LH2 fuel mixture will always provide a better isp than LOX/RP-1. The Vulcain II's isp advantage is due to the fuel mixture not being "more advanced".

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>>7815687
NO

>>7815687
It hit the ISS before plowing into the Eiffel Tower on the way back down.

This commentator's voice is triggering my ASMR

(and my boner, no homo)

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private space flight is so boring

>mfw nations will never be united behind the common goal of space exploration anymore and nobody watches rocket launches anymore

BROADBAND IN CARS HOLY SHIT THANKYOU INTELSAT

>>7815683
They went with Kerosene because they felt that the loss in isp could be made up elsewhere. LH2 provides superior isp but at the cost of heavier tanks and plumbing due to LH2 being cyrogenic.

>>7815721
I wouldn't bother trying to convince him. Following his logic, hall-effect thrusters from the 70's are more advanced because they get four digit ISPs.

>Special Relationship confirmed

Black Space Man called Boeing Airbus.

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>>7815717
Total control.

All those champagne corks

This host is brilliant.