CEV abort test booster

The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/

Pat


Estes will make thousands of them.


Rusty

Rusty wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/

Pat


Estes will make thousands of them.


Rusty

It's the Little Joe III.

Proponent wrote:
Rusty wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/

Pat


Estes will make thousands of them.


Rusty

It's the Little Joe III.

Last year some were calling it "Hoss".

Rusty

The article states that surplus motors will be used?! What surplus
motors??

Carl

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:58:33 -0500, wrote
(in article .com):

The article states that surplus motors will be used?! What surplus motors??

Carl

Extra SRB segments I'd bet. Which gets right back to what I posted a
couple weeks ago about when/if NASA stops retrieving SRBs. Clearly
they intend to build new segments for the 5-segment SRBs needed for
Ares.

--
Herb Schaltegger
"You can run on for a long time . . . sooner or later, God'll cut you
down." - Johnny Cash
http://www.angryherb.net

Rusty wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:


The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/

Pat




Estes will make thousands of them.



They'd better stick fins on it, or the CG had better be _way_ forward...
as in cast metal CEV far forward.

Pat

wrote:

The article states that surplus motors will be used?! What surplus
motors??



I assume the earlier pre-Challenger ones without the field joint
modifications.


Pat

Herb Schaltegger wrote:

Extra SRB segments I'd bet. Which gets right back to what I posted a
couple weeks ago about when/if NASA stops retrieving SRBs. Clearly
they intend to build new segments for the 5-segment SRBs needed for
Ares.



I'd assumed they'd keep the present ones for the Ares 5 heavy lifter.
If we still have any of the old pre-Challenger ones around using them on
a unmanned test vehicle would be a good way to get rid of them while
saving money, particularly given the fact that they could be launched
in warm weather.


Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

They'd better stick fins on it, or the CG had better be _way_ forward...
as in cast metal CEV far forward.

Pat


Along these lines, will this thing (the real thing, not the Estes
model), have hydraulic TVC? I imagine they'd have to since there are
no fins.