star drop
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Ares will launch in three minutes.
Edited for spelling error. Thank you Dave.
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Ted
Edited by star drop (10/29/09 01:13 PM)
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Spoonsize
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GONE! Nice launch, by the way.
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Steve Durham
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Scott Horstman
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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
Guilty as Charged
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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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Ted
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mclewis1
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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.
Mark
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Greg K.
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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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Skylook123
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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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Jim
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Joe F Gafford
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Separation anxiety? 
Joe.
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RobertED
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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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RobertED
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=166
...another favorite shot...
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Dave Mitsky
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Just for the record, the name is Ares, Ares 1-X to be precise.
Dave Mitsky
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Jim7728
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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
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MMICKELS
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Jim, I think they were just testing the first stage.
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Mark
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Scott Horstman
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Quote:
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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alanon
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Quote:
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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Dan
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Edited by alanon (10/29/09 04:39 PM)
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Dave Mitsky
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Quote:
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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.
Dave Mitsky
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Jim7728
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Thanks all. Would have been cool to see that second stage ignite. 
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Jim
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bsim
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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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Scott Horstman
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Quote:
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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Clive Gibbons
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Quote:
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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