Rockets!

[funkyrobot]

Wail link, but a nice little graphic showing 51 influential launch systems.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-297...

[Eric Mc]

I want that for my bedroom.

[anonymous-user]

I'm actually quite surprised at the total number of launches. I'd have guess significantly lower numbers that that!

[funkyrobot]

Eric Mc said:

I want that for my bedroom.

I'm going to see if I can get a print for my daughter's nursery.

[AER]

funkyrobot said:

Eric Mc said:

I want that for my bedroom.

I'm going to see if I can get a print for my daughter's nursery.

Daily Fail Article said:

The chart was created by Tyler Skrabek, 24, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada - and is also available to buy from Etsy for £15.72 ($24.22).

[Eric Mc]

Eric Mc said:

I want that for my bedroom.

But not at $15.75 plus postage.

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

Eric Mc said:

I want that for my bedroom.

But not at $15.75 plus postage.

Put in your office and then use the column headed 'Office Supplies'!

[MartG]

There's always this one http://www.patrol-log.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/...

[Eric Mc]

That's good but it looks a bit old.

[funkyrobot]

AER said:

funkyrobot said:

Eric Mc said:

I want that for my bedroom.

I'm going to see if I can get a print for my daughter's nursery.

Daily Fail Article said:

The chart was created by Tyler Skrabek, 24, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada - and is also available to buy from Etsy for £15.72 ($24.22).

May have to look at ordering one or something similar.

[FourWheelDrift]

Not as big as some on there but today "The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to help propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to deep space destinations, including an asteroid and Mars."

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasas-space-l...

[Eric Mc]

Is nobody reading the "sticky" on launches? I posted up a "heads up" on this early this morning?

Is this solid booster more powerful than the ones used on the Shuttle? It's essentially a development of the Shuttle's SRB with an additional fourth segment.

Video here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6OvHofcoo

Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 11th March 19:09

[MartG]

Thrust up from 2.8 million lbf to 3.6, and a slightly longer burn time to IIRC

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

Is nobody reading the "sticky" on launches? I posted up a "heads up" on this early this morning?

I'd be very disappointed if my launch went like that.

[Eric Mc]

I thought it would be a good place to alert people to a live rocket firing.

[Eric Mc]

Report on Radio 4's "Inside Science" today. From about 16 minutes in...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054t9hd

[MartG]

How to melt a GoPro camera - place it just 25 feet from an SRB test....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XybLjSUYgII&fe...

[Halmyre]

MartG said:

How to melt a GoPro camera - place it just 25 feet from an SRB test....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XybLjSUYgII&fe...

Bloody hell! I nearly cacked my pants when it lit up...

[Eric Mc]

If you look at the hill in the background, after a minute or so you start seeing smoke beginning to rise from the soil as it's cooked by the heat.

[anonymous-user]

Anyone know what the SPL is at that distance from the booster? I'm guess large! ;-)