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Blue Origin Test
Blue Origin just successfully tested the escape system for their
manned capsule. They launched on a New Shepard rocket and then did a high altitude escape maneuver with the capsule. The capsule hit around 10g during the escape. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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Blue Origin Test
Le 19/07/2018 Ã* 11:14, Fred J. McCall a écritÂ*:
Blue Origin just successfully tested the escape system for their manned capsule. They launched on a New Shepard rocket and then did a high altitude escape maneuver with the capsule. The capsule hit around 10g during the escape. A typical person can handle about 5 G (49 m/s2) (meaning some people might pass out when riding a higher-g roller coaster, which in some cases exceeds this point) before losing consciousness, but through the combination of special g-suits and efforts to strain muscles—both of which act to force blood back into the brain—modern pilots can typically handle a sustained 9 G (88 m/s2). https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2016/2721 At 10g this escape looks quite dangerous to me... specially for civilians. But anyway, they paid for it isn't it? They would get quite a lot of "g" sor their money. |
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Blue Origin Test
jacob navia wrote on Fri, 20 Jul 2018
00:22:15 +0200: Le 19/07/2018 à 11:14, Fred J. McCall a écrit*: Blue Origin just successfully tested the escape system for their manned capsule. They launched on a New Shepard rocket and then did a high altitude escape maneuver with the capsule. The capsule hit around 10g during the escape. A typical person can handle about 5 G (49 m/s2) (meaning some people might pass out when riding a higher-g roller coaster, which in some cases exceeds this point) before losing consciousness, but through the combination of special g-suits and efforts to strain muscles—both of which act to force blood back into the brain—modern pilots can typically handle a sustained 9 G (88 m/s2). https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2016/2721 That's all very nice, but nobody said anything about SUSTAINED 10g. Humans can take 'jolt' much higher than 10g with no physical damage. At 10g this escape looks quite dangerous to me... specially for civilians. Not particularly, no. And the choice is generally 'get away quick or die' in an emergency. But anyway, they paid for it isn't it? They would get quite a lot of "g" sor their money. No. Emergency escape systems are only used in case of, well, EMERGENCY. Go look at the sum total of all manned launches and count the number of times an emergency escape system was actually used. The Soyuz TM peaked at 12g during reentry for a fairly long duration and that was ROUTINE. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden |
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