I like rockets Do you guys like rockets?

>>1079494
wow when was that? didnt they do that like 3 times now? and it worked everytime.

>>1079754
Pretty sure they had like four attempts where it hit the barge and exploded, and one attempt where it exploded in the air during ascent. They also had one successful landing on dry land and two successful landings on the barge.

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>>1079492
yes

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>>1079975

>>1079494
>dat desperate last second RCS from the nose to try and keep it up
it tried so hard

>>1079494
seems like landing vertically is so much more difficult than just designing the thing to survive horizontal landing, why not give it landing gear like the energia-zenit booster had?

>>1082783

Why don't we just equip space vehicles with wings and have them take off from a runway? We could just save the main boosters until it is already flying extremely fast at at maximum altitude, then use them finally to push it over the atmosphere and into orbit. The wings and empty tanks etc would be discarded. From there we could use the orbital momentum and a little booster to slingshot it out to wherever we want it to go.

>>1083031
Don't be a smartass. The Zenit boosters of the Soviet Energia launch vehicle had landing gear to make them easier to recover. That seems a hell of a lot less complex than landing a rocket vertically on a platform in the middle of the ocean

>>1080037
"Atlas was one bad booster." - Deke Slayton

>>1083037
I'm not being a smartass, I'm just high (sorry!)
Your post made me question why they bother launching rockets 100% vertically in the first place. I mean wouldn't it take much less energy to get a rocket up 12-20 km in the air using conventional wings first, and *then* activate the really powerful boosters to get it over the hump and into orbit?

Or is it just impossible to carry the fuel needed to escape up to that height on wings because it is too heavy?

>>1083049
There are some schemes to do that but it mainly involves very small satellites. The fuel required to place anything large in orbit weighs much more than a plane can carry.

There's also the problem that orbiting is mainly about velocity, not altitude. So 20km at Mach 1-2 is really just a drop in the bucket of all the energy you need to get into orbit. The Saturn V's first stage, for example, separated at ~60km and the rocket was already at Mach 7 by then.

It's also not that efficient for large payloads. Think of all the energy a plane loses to drag flying through the atmosphere. Meanwhile a rocket is already 60km up in less than 3 minutes, allowing nearly all its energy to go towards accelerating into orbit instead of having to push its way through air

>>1083031
>until it is already flying extremely fast at at maximum altitude
oh, I missed that part

You'd be losing energy to atmospheric drag, and if you're high enough that drag isn't a factor, then wings won't work either

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Do missiles count?

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>>1079497

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>>1083376

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>>1083376
Commander Peto say yes

>>1082783
>>1083031
There are lots of reasons we don't do these things, but it'd take too much space to explain here. I know people hate reddit, but /r/Spacex has good explanations for why these things aren't being done since someone asks these questions almost every day, but the basic explanation basically boils down to these things don't work as well as you're imagining they do because physics. In most cases, they reduce the vehicle's payload-to-orbit to non-existence. Propulsive landing is the only option for recovery that allows for delivering a useful payload to orbit.

>>1083049
Getting an object into space isn't that hard, space is defined as only about 100km straight up. Getting it going fast enough to STAY in space is the tricky part.

The cost you would save by launching the rocket from a plane instead of the ground would be negated by the complexity of such a system, as well as the carrying capacity of the plane.
The Falcon 9 for example reaches 20km and Mach 1.7 within 100 seconds of launch, yet it still has to get up to about Mach 22 for a run to the ISS. The first stage alone will take it up to around 70km and Mach 5.3.

There have been plans to launch very small satellites using such a method, and suborbital flights have been done that way, but it's not practical for heavy payloads.

Video related is the cancelled DARPA plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOaJWoVLhAc

>>1079903
SpaceX has attempted seven landings of a first stage on a solid surface, three of which have succeeded.
Flight 14 failed to land safely on a barge, as it came down too fast and at an angle https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK

Flight 17(>>1079494 ) landed, but tipped over

Flight 20 was the first successful landing, on a ground pad, which is still an insane achievement.

Flight 21 landed on a barge, but one of the four landing legs failed to lock out, causing the stage to tip over, and then explode. https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/

Flight 22 left the first stage with very little fuel, and it reentered the atmosphere at very high speeds. It was steered towards the landing barge, but hit too fast, and suffered "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"

Flight 23 was the first successful barge landing (>>1079497 )

Flight 24 was the second barge landing

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>>1098855

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>>1098871
Its not a rocket but a rocket engine hope thats good enough for you fine folks

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>>1098891

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>>1098898

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>>1098919

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>>1098891
Yeah, that's good, thanks :)

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>>1098924

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>>1098926

>>1098891
Is that the one used by the Saturn V?

>>1099024
first stage testing

Anybody maybe have one of a Saturn V??

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>>1099773

>>1090627
bingo. You need speed, not so much altitude. That's why ssto's are so difficult to build in general. A ship designed to fly in air needs to be sleek which limits fuel storage and weight (wing area to weight) whereas with a rocket, you're already extremely aerodynamic (like a pencil), so all you're fighting is gravity, which is the biggest obstacle.

>>1095257
One of the brightest generations. Shame so much of that potential was used to murder one another.

Recently went to the Kennedy Space Center. They simulate the liftoff countdown in the control room and I teared up sitting there.

>>1079981
can some physicsbro explain the diamond shapes in the flame?

Any one got a webm of a launch with multiple viewpoints displayed at the same time?

>>1100339
Dunno, but there's a wikipedia article about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond

>>1100444
thanks dubdubtripfriend!

>>1099981
Yeah but at least von Braun and his team worked on the Saturn rockets, more or less even brought the required knowledge for them.

On that note:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucb4Ttt1oY
Terrific doc on the Saturn V rocket including interviews with people who worked on it.

>>1080037
Is it wrong that I recognize this music from Scrubs?

>>1099981
Competition drives innovation.

>>1098829
For context, this rocket was traveling at 2km per SECOND at its highest speed, and landed at about 10g's of acceleration

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>>1098871

>>1079494
sums up everything i do in Kerbal Space Program....

>>1100711
>soyuz rockets
>chinese cartoons

what is this ? sauce pls

>>1100711
Excuse me kind sir but what is the sauce of the anime ? I tried the filename but didnt find shit

>>1100791>>1100789
Royal space force: The wings of honneamise

>>1100711
Please I need sauce on song

>>1098819
>>1098820
What's with the flames persisting after the engines are turned off?

>>1102623
Watch it while you listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85C-IAoL-nA

>>1102623
>>1102738
It's when watching shit like this that you realize Spacex is going to be the General Electric or IBM of spaceflight over the next century.

Can I buy their stock?

>>1102762
Not if Musk keeps marrying whores and getting divorce raped.

>>1098855
What's the song?

>>1102623
is this the one from yesterday or whatever?

>>1103163
It's the one from 9 hours ago.

>>1103090
wasp pls go

>>1101476
Just residual fuel that burns.

>>1101476
>>1103588
To add, that red-brown smoke is oxidizer.

>>1088683
Boosting in an Anaconda.

>>1082783
>>1083037

Zenit was not reusable. You might be thinking of the proposed but unflown Baikal booster.

The answer to why horizontal landings suck is simple. Loads need to be transferred in two directions instead of one. The US Shuttles were a good example of this bad idea. Launch 100 tons total but only deliver 30 to orbit. The other 70 comes back down and is refurbished at a higher cost than building new.

SpaceX is the only ones with their heads screwed on right about reuse.

>>1083031

That's not how spaceflight works at all.

>>1100711
Damn.. does anyone know the song?

>>1083037
>>1083031
Atmosphere is thicker at lower atmospheres. Launching vertically allows you to get to thinner atmosphere with less fuel, thus less air friction.

Landing vertically allows you to save weight, and thus fuel, because it has less heavy parts.

The whole point of hypothesized SSTOs is to use oxygen in the air to save on weight, meaning you only need to haul up enough oxygen for when the atmosphere gets to thin and you have to switch to a chemical thrusters.

>Trust me
> I play Kerbal and I don't suck at it

>>1100727
Yes, you should just watch Koyaanisqatsi.

Your mum liked my rocket.

>>1083172
kek

>>1110013
THATS HOW THOSE WORK

>>1079492

What ever happened to the nuclear rocket/jet engines of the 1950s and 60s?

>>1098827

Damn it's alot bigger than I thought. I have more respect for what they did because of that.

>>1100711

One of the best animes ever made.

>>1110522
hippies

>>1079975

Sauce?

Also, what is the body of the first stage made out of?

>>1110601
My guess would be carbon fiber or composites

>>1080037

Eerie as fuck

>>1083214

I wish I could've been a part of it. I have my AWS D17.1, and I'm doing some pretty cool shit, but it's nothing compared to the 60's and 70's....

>>1098827

A lot of people don't know how big the boosters really are. The sea and barge dont offer anything for a reference. It's truly massive

>>1098922

What are those pops as it's coming out of the tube?

>>1100339
This could be caused by an over-expanded nozzel that bring the pressure of the exhaust gas too lower than the atmosphere. maybe this engine is designed to run in higher altitude or even vacume and whene it is used at ground level the atmospheric pressure is to hight for perfect efficiency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5l3CHWoHSI

>>1101468
>>1108858
Perturbator "consecration"

>>1098891
Still counts!

>>1098855
I need the song now

FUCK this thread makes me want to play KSP again!

I really can't be tempted to do that. Last year I almost failed my exams (not technically, but got C's and D's) because I played KSP until the day before each exam. This year I actually need to pass my finals.

>>1110667
that's still pretty dope man

>>1079492
rockets... they are awesome

>>1100339
This is a combination of normal and oblique shocks. A shock occurs when the pressure inside the nozzle is lower than the design back pressure of the nozzle (right at the exit). A shock is simply a sudden change in properties over a minute distance that is non isentropic (meaning that there was a change in entropy but typically modeled as isentropic).

>>1088607
whats this?

>>1110570
This.

>>1124190
Cute little rocket launch a while ago that failed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(rocket)

>>1079492
source?

>>1083376
Fake and gay.

>>1111348
No its the fact it lacks any bell what-so-ever, its just a firing test, not a thrust test.

>>1110685
it doesnt use the main engine to leave the tube, it uses a buncha tiny raidial engines that shut off just as they come outa the tube.

>>1124280
im sorry but nuclear engines dont work like they do in ksp, the work by ejecting nuclear bomb out a small hole behind a huge hydraulic plate they then explode and push the vessel upwards, they do have really really good TWR and can carry huge fucking payloads, they also irradiate large columns of air that then end up in the jet stream and kill everybody, its why they were never used.

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I like rockets yeah

>>1125986
You're talking about Orion. The other anon was talking about nuclear thermal rockets, which are very real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket

>>1125986
>they also irradiate large columns of air that then end up in the jet stream and kill everybody
oh pish posh
wouldn't be worse than all those nuclear tests they did in the fifties

>>1126205
Except for the fact that it absolutely would be.

>>1126041
Ambitious but rubbish!

>>1105788
oh no, not again

>>1099863
Thanks anon.

Anyone have any with sound?

Anyone know if there's any vids out there of the space shuttle ejecting rockets or the fuel tank? O

Or of any other rockets post launch?

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>>1128604
I have this

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>>1128632

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>>1128636

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>>1128639

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>>1128640
Might as well dump the rest of my rockets folder

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>>1128641
>>1128604
I particularly like this one at 0:58

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>>1128650
>try to post three oc shuttle webs
>"duplicate file exists here" for all of them
feels good man

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>>1128655

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>>1128657
Not really a rocket but I think it's related enough

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>>1128659
This as well

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>>1128663

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>>1128667
:(

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>>1128669

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>>1128682
i have a few more on the columbia disaster but i'm gonna stop here, makes me sad desu

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>>1128684

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>>1128685

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>>1128691

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>>1128693
and my favorite

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>>1128694

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>>1128697
my all-time favorite vid of a saturn v launch to be honest

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>>1128777

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>>1128632
Thanks anon very bittersweet it was her last go

>>1128643
I find it amazing that making as a wholes greatest initial achievement was fire. And our manipulation of fire has led us to the heavens.

>>1128659
Better than anon. I love seeing that fat pig fly

>>1098829
thats what they call a suicide burn

>>1110003
> I play Kerbal and I don't suck at it
so?

>>1102970
>>1114169
Agni Parthene, not sure on the version. It's an orthodox chant

>>1128685
>>What happened?
>>It exploded
Well no shit

>>1100776
>acceleration
dont you mean deceleration?

>>1098898
someone explain how it blows up the tank while detonating above it in the air please
shaped charge maybe?

>>1090870
>SpaceX has attempted seven landings of a first stage on a solid surface, three of which have succeeded.
It's 8 and 4 now.

Have any of you guys met a flat earther in real life?

I am completely fascinated by them, I cant stop looking up videos and shit of these people.

>>1079492
Possibly a stupid question, but why is the launch pad oriented so that you always have to do a roll after launch?

I mean the space shuttles always fly pretty much the same orbit, so it would make sense to be aligned for it before launch?

>>1133557
I mean they roll pretty quickly after launch dont they?
My guess is it would probably would just make the launch pad and initial launch a lot more complicated, and a roll maneuver isnt hard.

>>1128641
>that shockwave at 0:13

>>1133557
The shuttle doesn't accelerate that fast. If the launch pad was tilted it would probably fall because it wouldn't generate enough lift.

The shuttle also rolls immediately because if there is a catastrophic failure the launch center doesn't get rained with hell fire

>>1131865
Deceleration is just a word for acceleration that points backwards.

>>1129685
You have to actually know a lot about that shit to not suck at it. Most people just follow a shit ton of internet how to guides.

If someone can play Kerbal competently, especially with the right mods, they know a lot about the more finnicky details of rockets science.

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does this count?

>>1090870
>SpaceX is getting better
>NASA still slaved to a corrupt government hell bent on using it for it's own motives

The fact people actually argue against privatized space is insane.

>>1139804
You are definitely understating the difficulty of actual rocket science and overstating you're perceived knowledge. Dunning-Kruger Effect

>>1142264
I'm just talking about the basic physics, the calculus and engineering behind it all is complicated as all fucking hell. I am well aware of the limitations of my knowledge; but I also know principles behind aerodynamic drag and it's relationship to altitude and air pressure.

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please take your arguments elsewhere, we're already more than halfway to the bump limit

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bumping with something surreal

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please don't die

>>1132148
thats a good way to go crazy, anon.
Closest i've come was a moonhoaxer

>>1099981
Yeah, unfortunately jews don't like people being better then them, shame we have to deal with them but so is life

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don't die on me :(

>>1131869
to blow up the tank, the missile shoots down a secondary explosive that pierces the tanks armor that blows up inside of the tank.

>>1102738
Is this whole thing in real time?

>>1090870
>Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
I love euphemisms

>>1155867
No, it's sped up by a shitton

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>>1164255

>>1142224
It could lead to those slave colonies we hear about in sci-fi but it's our best shot at space exploration.

Why can't we have both NASA and private sector?

>>1081820
I didn't notice until you pointed it out. Why do I have feels for a thruster?

>>1090469
Memes aside there's some good threads floating around reddit

>>1098871
What are those white flakes(?) that fall off the arm close to the fuel tank

>>1165476
it supplies liquid oxygen to the ET which is cryogenic, so when humidity condensates on the arm it freezes making ice. when it launches the vibrations break the ice free, making those flakes.

>>1164255
>>1164257

is this Nassaults stuff?

>>1165485
yes

>>1165476
Ice. Both liquid oxygen and hydrogen need to be stored at under 100K, and the deposits and ducts tend to cover with frost.

>>1098855
>>1102970
>>1114169
>>1129864
Probably a better quality one on YT, this is what I found with a quick search https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZ9qFSH5F4

>>1110601
Source:
https://youtu.be/bDoh8zQDT38

>>1111348
It's a high altitude or concept nozzle, nozzles designed for zero atmosphere function have an expansion ratio of around 400, which isn't evident here.

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>>1099863
Here's a longer version

>>1079492
>>1098871
>>1128647
>>1128650
>>1128655
Mmmf. I love the acceleration, or perhaps even sense of acceleration, the shuttle launch vehicles had. Just straight get up and go. Doesn't seem like you see that kind of punch from other manned rockets. I haven't spared the time to look up any numbers, so like I said, could just be perception.

But when the clock hits zero, they're just like "Seeya losers, we're outta here."

>>1079975

Why are space videos always in fish eye lens?

@ 12 seconds in you can see the Earth start to invert

It's almost ridiculous how commonly fish eye lens these videos always are

>>1098926
love this one

>>1098855
and this one, goddamn

>>1088750
guided missiles always amaze and frighten me.

>>1099412
At 1:27

Christ my sides are farther in orbit than this rocket has ever been

>>1189159
This is fucking gold

Anyone have a Sprint Missile test launch? (has to be seen to be believed)

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Rocket thread, no Korolev cross - time to correct that

>>1098922
>>>1133557
Are these fuckers nuclear?

>>1110013
Looks overexpanded. isn't the point of these to not do that?

>>1100782
LELSOKERBAL XD

>>1128666

they were alive all the way down

>>1125481
t: turk

>>1155816
Not quite, it uses an EFP, or explosively formed penetrator when it flies overhead. Basically explosive force fires a slug of metal (usually copper) straight down into the tank's thin top armor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator

>>1209585
That's the idea, yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM_Topol

>>1083376

> It's hammer time motherfucker

>>1126041

holy shit

>>1128659

those landing gear sure like to build suspense

>>1141891

No

boop

>>1102762
wtf i posted that shit in may and it's almost august

how slow IS this board?

>>1128665
nasa got really good at killing astronauts

thanks Carl and your SETI kike bullshit

>>1217335
you are a disgusting human being.

shame on your fucking parents.

>>1186547

Because their purpose is to document events, not to make pretty videos.

>>1204498
beautiful

>>1172313
source?

iim working in top secret russian space program

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>>1228037
Looping version
Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPfcwT4Fcy8

>>1228336
i love this

>>1098839
That's so Kerbal

i like red rockets

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqY8sy3nkM

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how about some explosion?

>>1237983
:(

>>1079492
Is that tom cruise?

>>1118730
what did he say?

>>1237983
Like a margarita mixer full of kerosene. I'm surprised it stayed intact as long as it did, actually.

>>1128690
0:32
"That'll teach nasa to privatise space"

My sides exploded on launch.

>>1235955
jesus fuck thats beautiful

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>>1128643
God those visible shock waves are so damn cool

Contributing with my only semi-related webm

>>1133557
The roll is to place the shuttle/rocket in the correct trajectory for the desired orbit. If they want a different orbit, the roll will be different, so it wouldn't be worth the effort.

>>1128820
YEAH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXealwoUAtQ

this is a great video of the Saturn V, and is relevant to what you said; fire began it all- and it was on a great pillar of fire, which sent us to the Moon.

Honest question: Why aren't rocket engines melting themselves, they must become extremely hot? What magic materials are they made of?

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>>1249066
Heat-resistant alloys, and clever engineering. Here is a recent RS-25 Engine test. The engine was designed to take the really cold liquid hydrogen fuel and pump it through thousands of stainless steel tubes that lined the nozzle, before sending it back into the engine to be burned. It is a very efficient method of cooling.

In the webm, you'll see a bunch of white vapor and chunks of ice falling off of various tubes. While the flame inside the nozzle is 3300°C, ice will form wherever that liquid H2 is pumped because it is just that cold. Ice will even form on the outer surface of the nozzle while its burning. Pretty incredible. Here is a photo of the tubes up close:

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/eande-plate-huge-exhibit.jpg

>>1128679
not sure where this is from but it seems serious and interesting about the accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnmSdVbgQ4M

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love'em

>>1255657
Here comes his imperial majesty himself to fuck you in the ass

>>1242299
Lol im not the only one who though that

>>1080037
Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.

>>1260625
>Koyaanisqatsi

I've been meaning to watch that...

>>1128701
Some of this looks like it's from a movie, anyone know the name?

>>1098839
There's another webm of this, closer up with the Russian anthem playing over it, anyone have it?

>>1204487
>Anyone have a Sprint Missile test launch?
I haven't found one that was good enough quality to make a webm out of put those things were awesome.

In case you didn't know what a Sprint missile was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA

boop

thread is nominal

>>1251700
Man, watching those turbopumps spin up and shake is scary.

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They no longer chant USA USA after successful landings :(

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does it look like the explosion originated from its fuel tanks - do they sit that high up on the rocket?

>>1275763
It's from the fuel coupling on the top of the stage they're saying, likely the launchpad's fault.

this was a great thread

>>1105788
At first i thought it was Wheatley from Portal

>>1209010
Looks like a turbopump failure to me

>>1256776
Damn I love the Korolev Cross

goodnight sweet prince :(