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The long-awaited Delta-4-Heavy test flight has just taken off -- WOW
The long-awaited Delta-4-Heavy test flight has just
blasted off from Cape Canaveral, looks good so far. Boeing is the manufacturer -- a good day for them. The liftoff video is mighty impressive, see http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/l...vy_webcast.htm This is the new rocket that is most often talked about as the booster for NASA's new human spaceship, the 'Crew Exploration Vehicle' (CEV) of 'Project Constellation'. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...xt_launch.html This version can carry fourteen tons into orbit -- twice the size of Russia's 'Soyuz' rocket. It's not quite as heavy as a full payload on the space shuttle, but is a lot cheaper. Better -- this rocket architecture can be upgraded with more strap-on boosters, to get to the twenty to twenty five tons. That's a lot more than the space shuttle can deploy. It's big enough to assemble space vehicles in orbit that can carry astronauts back to the moon. Still ten years before NASA puts astronauts into the new capsule and launches them -- but it will look a lot like what we just saw. |
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