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Ares will launch in three minutes.
Edited for spelling error. Thank you Dave.
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Edited by star drop (10/29/09 01:13 PM)
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GONE! Nice launch, by the way.
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It was awesome. Scared me a bit at seperation though.
I wish I would have not watched yesterday though. I missed my window for mowing. Now I can't launch the Toro because the wind has hit 20.5 knots and there's that darned "tribal electrification rule" . I did get the cover off of it OK but now with my luck there's probably a ship in the box.
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star drop
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Scott, never mind your missing looking out your window watching Di mow the lawn. Bop your own ball cap button and get mowing.
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"tribal electrification rule" ... yeah I'm thinking of using that one every once and a while too.
Neat launch. It was just like a model rocket launch (solid rocket engine, ballistic trajectory, structural separation at apogee, and recovery) ... only a whole lot bigger.
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"triboelectrification". Bascially the potential to build up static electricity and fry the electronics, from what I gathered.
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That was sure the oddest separation sequence on a successful launch I've ever seen! Amusing how the "narrator" was as much bereft of information as the rest of us.
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Separation anxiety? 
Joe.
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It was a 'very cool' launch...here's a NASA website to find many spectacular images of the launch....
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=166
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=166
...another favorite shot...
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Just for the record, the name is Ares, Ares 1-X to be precise.
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Anyone know if the 2nd stage was suppose to ignite and why was the footage cut short? Seperation was not pretty. 
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Jim, I think they were just testing the first stage.
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Just for the record, the name is Ares, Ares 1-X to be precise.
Dave Mitsky
Why did they spell it wrong? The constellation is spelled "Aries" 
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Anyone know if the 2nd stage was suppose to ignite and why was the footage cut short? Seperation was not pretty.
It was a dummy payload to test the flight characteristics of the rocket.
EDIT: Sorry, it was answered already. I am a bit slow on the draw sometimes. 
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Just for the record, the name is Ares, Ares 1-X to be precise.
Dave Mitsky
Why did they spell it wrong? The constellation is spelled "Aries"
Ares as in Mars.
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Thanks all. Would have been cool to see that second stage ignite. 
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Great launch. Unfortunately, the future of Ares doesn't look good. Many in the Administration want to cancel it.
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Ares as in Mars.
I thought they were going with a constellation theme. God of War I doesn't have a nice ring to it. 
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Anyone know if the 2nd stage was suppose to ignite and why was the footage cut short? Seperation was not pretty.
Yeah, the sep didn't go according to plan.
At least one shaped charge failed to ignite, so the "payload" portion kinda jack-knifed.
The solid motor used for the first stage is a real brute!
Vibration is always an issue with those big solids.
Also, if they fail catastrophically early in the launch, the crew has basically zero chance of survival.
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Wasn't exactly a stellar day for NASA. Payload shroud didn't cleanly separate and the first stage is apparently damaged ... likely from the fall into the ocean. There is some word that all three large parachutes didn't deploy correctly (2 out off 3).
Clive your comment about how violent the big solids are reminded me of something. During the ascent it sounded to me like they varied the thrust of that first stage. Right after going supersonic I thought they said something about "max q" and then something like the "throttle up" command that the shuttle gets at this point ... it's the point of maximum g loading on the ascent and they throttle back the shuttle to reduce the g's for a short period and then resume max thrust. Anyhow, if I'm not hearing things just exactly how the heck do they vary the thrust level on the solid fuel rocket first stage of Ares?
Clive, you reminded me of a second item too ... That strange vertical oscillation (Pogo) that almost took out one of the Apollo flights is something that NASA is really concerned about with a single large first stage under a very long rocket. The shuttle was effectively short and fat so Pogo'ing wasn't an issue. Going back to the classic long rocket shape with a really powerful first stage apparently opens the door for this issue again. It sure is going to be a wild ride for those "biological payloads" on the Ares flights.
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Anyhow, if I'm not hearing things just exactly how the heck do they vary the thrust level on the solid fuel rocket first stage of Ares?
I assume there's a variation in the propellant that varies with its position in the casing, sort of a layering thing. I don't know for sure, but it makes sense.
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Jeff, That was my first thought as well. I remember reading something years ago (from Thiokol I think) about the theoretical ability to tune the performance of a solid rocket engine with propellant changes (composition and size of the center void I assume) in one or more of the segments that make up the engine. I didn't know if it had actually been done for a flight.
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Ares as in Mars.
I thought they were going with a constellation theme. God of War I doesn't have a nice ring to it.
Ares is indeed part of the Constellation Program, NASA's plan to return to the Moon and to perhaps travel to Mars. However,...
June 30, 2006 — After months of unofficial, internal use, NASA formally announced names for its next generation of launch vehicles intended to take humans to the Moon, on to Mars and beyond.
Project Ares (pronounced air-eez or ah-rays) includes the agency's crew launch vehicle, now referred to as Ares I, and the cargo launch vehicle, which will be called Ares V.
According to Scott Horowitz, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the name Ares was borrowed from the Romans' title for the planet Mars and not the constellation or Greek deity.
"We named the vehicle for the Roman use of the word, which is for Mars," Horowitz told reporters at Kennedy Space Center. "We didn't name it after a god of war, that is not our intent."
"A-R-I-E-S is the constellation Aries," explained Horowitz. "A-R-E-S is the Roman name, the synonym for Mars."
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-063006a.html
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Ares, God of War. 
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Thank you for the detailed explanation, Dave. 
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Ares, God of War.
It's also somewhat amusing that the NASA spokesman didn't know that Mars is the Roman name for Ares. 
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Yes, the name is after the planet, not the constellation. One of the original Von Braun rockets was the Jupiter. When they started on the next series, they went with the next one out and chose Saturn.
Personally I would have kept that tradition and named the new fleet Uranus. Seems more appropriate.
Nah, I like Ares
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Although the Ares is part of NASA's "Constellation Program", so I can see why there might be some confusion.
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More pictures from boston.com:
Launch of the Ares I-X
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