No Ares 1-Y

Can't be afforded with live J2X engine:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...0Flight%20Test

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Can't be afforded with live J2X engine:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...0Flight%20Test


From above:

Hanley said on Nov. 3 he has recommended to NASA headquarters that
the Ares I-Y test planned for March 2014 be canceled because the
J-2X engine needed to propel the upper stage won't be ready in
time to support that test date. The problem is money, he said.

That's more than 4 years away and the J-2X still won't be ready for a test
flight? The J-2X was supposed to be relatively easy and cheap to develop
since it is based on the Apollo era J-2 engine.

I wonder what the politicians will think about this latest delay...

Jeff
--
"Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
Lampoon

On Nov 10, 4:03*pm, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:
*The J-2X was supposed to be relatively easy and cheap to develop
since it is based on the Apollo era J-2 engine.


Tell me about movies that have been "based" on a book. How many are
even close to the storyline? MER was based on Pathfinder. In the
end, there was only one common part.

"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
news
Can't be afforded with live J2X engine:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...0Flight%20Test


From above:

Hanley said on Nov. 3 he has recommended to NASA headquarters that
the Ares I-Y test planned for March 2014 be canceled because the
J-2X engine needed to propel the upper stage won't be ready in
time to support that test date. The problem is money, he said.

That's more than 4 years away and the J-2X still won't be ready for a test
flight? The J-2X was supposed to be relatively easy and cheap to develop
since it is based on the Apollo era J-2 engine.

I wonder what the politicians will think about this latest delay...


It's the politicians that have decided not to fund any more of this folly.


"Bob Ess, the Ares I-X mission manager, will oversee the I-X prime study.
Expected to take about two months,

Two months, that's all the Vision for Space Exploration has left in
it's tank.





Jeff
--
"Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
Lampoon