[NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Oct. 28, 2009, at 11:30 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Complex until splashdown of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.]
[The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.]
(excerpts from NASA.gov)
**This is the Rocket Dave has been working on at ATK (the reason why he's gone to Florida so much). The round black sensors you see on the outside of the Rocket were designed by Dave himself and measure critical information on how the Rocket is performing. Pretty exciting! Below is a picture of him when it was still being assembled (in Florida).
The video was amazing ~ still can't believe he's working with this stuff!! Awesome!
2 comments:
Very cool Dave worked on that!
so so so so so so cool! You guys are always doing some thing fun! I loved reading your blog to catch up to what your family has been up to! :)
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