top | item 9032215 Live Feed of ESA's Intermediate Experimental Vehicle Launch 25 points| fbnt | 11 years ago |esa.int 5 comments order hn newest nakkiel|11 years ago I can't warp my head around how quick Vega is to rise (ESA's new light launcher). Here's a video from its qualification flight:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IZ6d4wTCgSo far, everything is going well on the mission but I'm very anxious about the reentry of the IXV. morbius|11 years ago The smoke plume is characteristic of SRBs, which have a very good thrust-to-mass ration but relatively low specific impulses.If you've ever seen a Shuttle launch, the long and smoky plume and the rocket "leaping off the pad" will look very familiar. jccooper|11 years ago It does get going, doesn't it? Vega is a solid-fuel rocket (except for the fourth stage), and those have really high thrust early on.If it behaves more like a missile than a satellite launcher that's no coincidence: most missiles are also solid-fuel. load replies (1)
nakkiel|11 years ago I can't warp my head around how quick Vega is to rise (ESA's new light launcher). Here's a video from its qualification flight:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IZ6d4wTCgSo far, everything is going well on the mission but I'm very anxious about the reentry of the IXV. morbius|11 years ago The smoke plume is characteristic of SRBs, which have a very good thrust-to-mass ration but relatively low specific impulses.If you've ever seen a Shuttle launch, the long and smoky plume and the rocket "leaping off the pad" will look very familiar. jccooper|11 years ago It does get going, doesn't it? Vega is a solid-fuel rocket (except for the fourth stage), and those have really high thrust early on.If it behaves more like a missile than a satellite launcher that's no coincidence: most missiles are also solid-fuel. load replies (1)
morbius|11 years ago The smoke plume is characteristic of SRBs, which have a very good thrust-to-mass ration but relatively low specific impulses.If you've ever seen a Shuttle launch, the long and smoky plume and the rocket "leaping off the pad" will look very familiar.
jccooper|11 years ago It does get going, doesn't it? Vega is a solid-fuel rocket (except for the fourth stage), and those have really high thrust early on.If it behaves more like a missile than a satellite launcher that's no coincidence: most missiles are also solid-fuel. load replies (1)
nakkiel|11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IZ6d4wTCg
So far, everything is going well on the mission but I'm very anxious about the reentry of the IXV.
morbius|11 years ago
If you've ever seen a Shuttle launch, the long and smoky plume and the rocket "leaping off the pad" will look very familiar.
jccooper|11 years ago
If it behaves more like a missile than a satellite launcher that's no coincidence: most missiles are also solid-fuel.