Ares 1-X now on pad
Jeff Findley wrote:
"Rick Jones" wrote in message
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In sci.space.history Jeff Findley wrote:
You're being *very* generous today.
Other than the SRB casings, this thing has very little in common
with the actual Ares I design. It's actually a shuttle SRB (four
segment) with a dummy SRB segment on top to "simulate" a five
segment SRB. Of course, everything above the first stage is also
dummy parts to "simulate" an upper stage and an Orion capsule.
Aren't you leaving-out the RCS (?) bits in place to keep the thing
from tumbling arse over teakettle?
The TVC on the first stage, the SRB, is the same as on shuttle. The RCS
could be the design they're planning on using for Ares I, but I seriously
doubt it.
Same control algorithms, different RCS hardware (ICBM heritage, I think).
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