New Vulcan Centaur rocket fired up for first time in test
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- United Launch Alliance conducted a Flight Readiness Firing (FRF) of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on June 7, 2023.
"The 202-foot-tall (62-meter) Vulcan Centaur is ULA's rocket of the future, the replacement for the company's venerable Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles," says Space.com.
Credit: ULA - Наука та технологія
Beautiful fire! Better late than never.
Like with starliner better late than ever.
As much beef as Blue Origin gets, which I partly agree with some, I do love these BE-4 engines, and their beautiful exhaust.
too bad the audio sucked. we got spoiled by space x streams
This is ula not blue orgin
@@Spaceman0025 The engine are made by Blue Origin and are also gonna be on New Glenn
@@Spaceman0025 the engines are from blue origin
It's happening! So excited
As a long time Space enthusiast, I'm very happy for what ULA and Blue Origin accomplished with Vulcan Centaur. Still cringes me watching some SpaceX fanboys looking to the Rocket industry as some type of Sports.
It kinda is like sports....we all have our favorite teams.....most are SpaceX or Blue Origin some are all in for NASA....as for me, I'm Team RocketLab
edit: I should also specify that I do want all of them to be winners.
@@johndoepker7126 the most Rocket companies to succeed into Orbit, the better towards Space exploration.
@@RogerM88 Exactly. Better to be team rocket.
@@RogerM88 the tech îs still too primitive for space exploration
Not a fanboy but SpaceX has shown the utter waste of developing expendable launch vehicles.
Nice! Keep pushing 💪!
Nice clear flames
Congratulations to Mark Peller & ULA team. From your former propulsion team-mate at Boeing.
Looks good; love the sparky boys
Way to go BE-4!
Excellent 👍
Spectacular! Congratulations, Blue Origin, ULA, Astrobotic and everyone involved. 💖❤🧡❤💖
Amazing
Hope it gonna be a succes
Did a first lot of shopping during the hours of broadcasting. Did not get enough light bulbs for storage, went back. This time I missed the test firing. Turns out, the significant parts could be edited down to six and a half minutes.
Good to see some progress happening, can't wait to see it fly. I do wonder if the centaur stage has had many changes or is it exactly the same as the one that rides on top of Atlas V currently.
The Centaur upper stage is very different for Vulcan. Larger diameter to match the Vulcan core stage, two RL-10s, much greater hydrogen and oxygen capacity. Plenty of chances to screw things up. But it did need to be done, unlike the foolhardiness of choosing main engines from Blue Origin which has produced basically nothing while existing for longer than SpaceX.
@@owensmith7530 Nice little lie there.
A while ago, my grandfather showed me how you can make sparks if you put a candle close to your back and do fart.
Hi there guys that was a great 👍 test at least everything was okay 👍 david 👌🚀❤️🇬🇧👍
Do we know the intended duration?
What is the venting flaming pipe in some of those far shots? What exactly is the purpose?
Burns off methane
Burns off excess gaseous methane from the booster.
I believe the red hot chilli peppers said it best.
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Was it supposed to cut off like that and then seemingly reignite? Very confused
That's not unusual to see engines seemingly reignite for a split second. Not sure of the technical explanation (residual fuel in turbopumps?)
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@@ryddragyn maybe it was just a super short fire?
@@SpencerFH Doubt it was an intentional relight, I've seen similar things on much longer burns on other engines. Maybe shortly after cutoff some residual cryogenic fuel warms up, expands, spurts out, and gets ignited by something?
@@SpencerFH Also, it's a bit hard to see the actual flames on this rocket because of how close the engines are to the flame trench.
Aside from the fireworks this showed me absolutely nothing.
But do it land like space x does?
did it fire 2 times
Oooohhhhh aaaasshhhhhh
Well, this day was a long time coming. Congratulations to ULA and the Vulcan team. It's too bad that Astrobotics's lunar lander, which they had intended to launch on their first flight will not be ready on time. Sending a lander to the Moon would have been a glorious first time at bat. Nonetheless, they will conduct their test flight, and their second flight will be the first mission of the Sierra Space Dream Chaser, which ain't too shabby either. It would be a fine thing if Vulcan/Centaur became man rated so that they can eventually launch manned Dream Chasers to the ISS. Of course, NASA human rating is not necessary for non NASA manned flights, thus, even without that, they would still be able to support the Orbital Reef space station, at least for non NASA crews. Maybe NASA could be persuaded to pay for the human rating.
Of course, the fact is, Vulcan/Centaur cannot meaningfully compete with Falcon 9 and Heavy in terms of cost or flight rate. The fact of the matter is, ULA's business model is, and always has been, to rely on a limited number of government contracts in which the customer does not really care about price and ULA is guaranteed a profit, and to cede the rest of the market to the competition. The US government, having legitimate needs for assured launch services, has been perfectly willing to use ULA in that capacity of national carrier. Indeed, the US government essentially forced Boeing and Lockheed to form ULA for just that purpose. Unfortunately, in a couple of years, the competition is going to include not just the Falcon rockets, but also New Glenn and Starship. Thus, ULA is shortly going to have two competitors operating three different launch systems, all of which will be greatly superior to Vulcan/Centaur in payload capacity, flight cadence, flexibility of schedule and cost. It will not surprise me at all if, when the next round of NSSL contracts are bid next year, ULA is frozen out, or offered such a small portion that they choose to withdraw. When the current contract was being negotiated, they were offered the smaller, 40% share and said that would not justify their operations and would refuse the offer. Whether or not they were bluffing, the government gave them the 60% share and SpaceX the 40%.
The next round of contracts (Phase 3) is going to have two "lanes" of service. Lane 1 will be open to a larger number of providers who will not have to meet the same requirements of reliability and orbit acquisition as the Phase 2 contract has required. It will be for less important payloads. There will, obviously, be significantly fewer launches per provider in that lane. Lane 2, for the more strategically vital payloads, will have the same requirements as the current contract. That will again be awarded 60/40 to two providers. Barring significant delays in development of Starship and New Glenn, it seems likely ULA will not receive a Lane 2 contract.
In that event, it seems to me that the single contract with Sierra Space to launch unmanned Dream Chasers on ISS commercial resupply missions would not be sufficient for ULA to justify continued operations. Boeing probably does not want to continue flying Starliner beyond fulfillment of their present Commercial Crew contract if, in fact, they are able to fulfill it, so that will not represent a potential second customer. It will not surprise me if ULA ceases operations after completing their current manifest, and Sierra Space will have to find a new launch provider. SpaceX is an obvious possibility, but NASA wants multiple independent providers, so they would only accept that for a limited time, as they are doing now, accepting SpaceX launching Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft to carry cargo to the ISS until Northrop Grumman develops a new, Antares 300 launcher, the old 200 series launcher having had its first stage manufactured in Ukraine and its engines in Russia, thus making further production impossible given the current war situation. Thus, Sierra's next most likely launcher would seem to be Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket, once they get that flying. The first flight is expected in 2024 but, even if it is delayed a bit, they should be operational in time to take over from ULA in launching Dream Chaser.
There will be significant delays to New Glenn, like everything from Blue Origin.
Bro where did you copy paste that from lmao
@@owensmith7530 Well, it's hard to imagine there will be even more, but you could well be right.
@@CuckFinn Sorry, that's my own work. I have professional experience in the industry, and I keep up with what is going on.
THE TWO LITTLE ENGINES THAT COULD....😊 THAT SUCKER IS GONNA TAKE OFF SLOW EVEN WITH 6 SRB...
The engines ignited? I saw some flame bursts and the igniter sparks. What was the duration .5 seconds?
3.5 seconds, 6.5 total from ignition to cutoff.
It looks like they did not last very long
I wonder if BE can build good flight engines as fast as they fall into ocean.
Not tested enough to be powering this mission, wait and see….
I didn’t see any ignition, did it fail?
It did ignite and fire. So no, it didn't fail.
Space X, is that you in our rear view mirror, sinking back, further and further, yes
Could that possibly have been more underwhelming? Less than a second of firing the engines, what was the point?
I see you like lying a lot. It was several seconds. 6.5 from ignition to cutoff. And the point is to not only do a countdown but also fire the booster with a fueled CV on top to make sure all systems work as intended. This is no different than the FRFs SpaceX carries out prior to a launch.
03:59 "we have ignition....and.." (didn't lift off?)
just kidding ✌🏻
That will shut the damn SpaceX Raptor fanboys up for a while. These will be putting assets into LEO years before the Raptor 3 engine.
🤣🤣🤣
Sadly, they just keep moving the goal posts farther and farther to the right.
SpaceX says 'hold my beer'.
Seemed a little weak
Be 4 rules!
I need a lot more convincing to invest.
I've honestly seen better from a 96' 2.7 vtec off of a honda accord and that was like 3 months ago
Ugh! Y'all know when you eat something bad and you need to replace the lingering flavor with something tasty? ... heading to watch SpaceX playing with their raptors.
Someones bored
@@TaurusSpace that’s sure
😂
Boring! Nothing blew up!
So we saw an aborted ignition? Literally ignition and shutdown within 3 seconds? My farts last longer than that.
Rather anticlimactic...
Um rocket is not a new new 😊fake news
Vulcan rocket is the new rocket for ULA what are you talking about.
@@odynith9356 i do same thing with bike pump and pop bottle. WoW amazing
Space x is better
In your opinion 😃
In the space industry there is no “Space x is better”
Team Space.
They need to hurry up they’re missing out
Meh
Pretty cool test and musk built a bigger one in a tent and flew it before you’ve even got off the ground oh and you’ve worked on this rocket longer I’ll put my money on musk oh and don’t blow up my rocket
If only you knew wtf you were actually talking about, but instead decide to talk out of your ass in an industry you dont know anything about nor are smart enough to be a part of.
did you forget to take your meds?
The difference is this rocket will most likely work and deliver actual payload on its first flight. That’s not a knock on SpaceX, they’ve proven their method of rapid iteration and testing/exploding is also effective. Besides, Starship is still a couple years away from actual flights, and we need a launch vehicle with the capacity of Delta IV heavy. We can’t rely on one company for space launches, all rockets will blow up eventually. When Falcon 9, or Starship, or Vulcan, or SLS blows up, we can’t afford to not have a alternative to use.
@@orionSpacecraft the ULA snipers are real
@@orionSpacecraft lol it’s funny when you trigger people lol Musk go Musk