Anna
Administrator
Cat Herder Extraordinaire
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://www.toomanyannas.com/images/lordaerontabard.jpg)
Dinnae talk pish.
![[aim]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/aim.gif)
Joined: May 2007
Gender: Female 
Posts: 714
Location: Texas, USA
Karma: 7 |  | Rockets and Spaceships and NASA Oh My!
« Thread Started on Aug 27, 2009, 9:11am » | |
There's going to be a 5 segment test of the new Solid Rocket Boosters today on NASA TV at 2pm Central time.
This 5 segment motor thing is something they're developing for the Ares system, which will (supposedly) be replacing the current Orbiter in the next 5ish years.
You can watch this via live feed on nasa.gov - linky ! You can watch a previous test of this kind of thing here on youtube - they wanted to try out this kind of 5 segment SRB for the shuttle but couldn't get it flight ready, so the current shuttle uses a 4 segment rocket.
|
http://www.toomanyannas.com - Too Many Annas, a World of Warcraft Blog
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own. |
|
![[Home]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/menu/home.gif)
![[Help]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/menu/help.gif)
![[Search]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/menu/search.gif)
![[Login]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/menu/login.gif)
![[Search This Thread]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/search2.gif)
![[Send Topic To Friend]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/buttons/sendtopic.gif)
![[Print]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/buttons/print.gif)
Author
Logged