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"Blue Streak" Rocket launches from Woomera, South Australia (1965, HD)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- CHEERS FOR BLUE STREAK. At the Woomera Rocket Site in Australia, three successes for Blue Streak. Three launches, all perfect. This British Commonwealth and European seven-nation project has nose of its scientific eyes on the moon: Blue Streak is to be the booster section of a three stage rocket to put a satellite into orbit. When all the checks are made and every conceivable precaution taken, they're still tense, exciting minutes as the count-down approaches zero...(99) Nothing went wrong with Blue Streak. MCU-Rocket site...CU-Tilt down-from top to base of rocket...CU-Radar screen...VS-Ints-control room workers & panels...CU's-Mens faces...CU-Time sequence machine 10-9-8-7 etc...MS-Missile on pad...CU-Base of missile as it starts to rise...ECU-of Missile rising...MCU-Missile rising from pad...MCU-Faces looking skyward...MS-Missile in flight...
Looks like an Atlas rocket without the first stage. Top video - Cheers!
This was a missed, wasted opportunity for the UK and Australia all due to very shortsighted beancounters in Whitehall determining that it had no commercially viable uses, how wrong they were.
Had it gone operational it wouldn't have been fired from Woomera!!! Europa was planned to be launched from French Guiana, like Ariane is.
That's a rocket launch that doesn't get a lot of attention these days
I was told that after this we gave all our rocket technology to the French, who turned it into Ariane (a sweetener for Concorde cooperation, supposedly). The British space race is still going with Starchaser and some other companies.
Not really, Blue Streak, was used by ELDO (European Launcher Development Organisation) as the first stage of its "Europa-1" rocket. Blue Streak mostly worked OK but Europa-1 never really worked and the UK mostly pulled out. ELDO could never really get anything to work and in 1975 was merged with the ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) to make ESA. The Ariane series has pretty much nothing in common with Blue Streak, being developed 15 years later.
No. This was just a dead end, the British had no influence on anything that followed in space. Starchaser is less advanced than many hobbyist modelers in other countries, and some of their efforts have been, frankly, embarrassing. Absolutely anyone with enough money in the UK can easily beat anything Starchaser has ever done using commercial available HPR products.
Great video. There’s one of those rockets at the space centre in Leicester
And then Britain quit because there was no commercial value in it.
Australia should talk SpaceX into building a rocket factory and a couple launch towers there or on the northeast coast of Queensland. Then Australia could be the only other country to launch and recover Starship-Superheavy. Plus a large solar-powered factory to obtain liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, water and liquid CO2 from the air, and produce liquid methane to fuel the rockets.
Why would Australia want to support a foreign company? Why not do it all itself? If New Zealand can manage a domestic space launch industry then I'm sure Australia can, once they learn to write and get over their fear of fire and metal.
@@iatsd Go for it! They should build their own. But Australia would be starting from scratch, undoubtedly building small, test rockets. It will take 10+ years to get to a Falcon9-like reusable rocket. China is copying everything SpaceX is doing. Australia might want to do that, too? Or is it more cost effective to work out a deal with a South African-American billionaire who has already done substantial R&D and build licensed copies, legally…and it would have to be equitable for both sides…a sort of partnership or alliance. Then Australia would be able to leapfrog competition and get to building Superheavy boosters directly. But why would SpaceX and the USA just ‘give’ the technology to Australia? A friendly foreign company employing Australian employees, land and infrastructure might be worth it. It would also have to be approved by both governments. I’m just thinking out loud. I’m no expert. It might not be possible to work out such a deal.
Both points of view have merit - International Co-operation, and Self-Reliant methodologies. The question that would be best asked first, is which provides the best advantage to the Australian people, I suspect Hosting the launch services of companies from around the world would be more effective sooner, while encouraging locally developed vehicles as alternatives with tax rebates will take longer and require much more far sighted and apolitical comitment through programs providing tax incentives to the developers, along with mandates for Australian ownership.
Of course, we'd have to take funding from other areas to accomodate it, perhaps removing all the Kiwi's from unemployment benefits would suffice,.... 😊
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The rockets launched from New Zealand are from a US company called Rocket Lab who are headquartered in Long Beach, California. So it's not actually a New Zealand domestic space launch industry, it probably doesn't even employ very many Kiwis. they just rent launch facilities in eastern North Island, New Zealand.
@@mikeandtriciajohnson7241 I know you desperately want that to be the whoe story, but you know it isn't. Rocket Lab was set up in NZ by a NZer. It relocated the HQ-of-record to the US to access the US military launch market. Main HQ for admin, design, and launch remains in NZ.
The UK and the Commonwealth walked, ran away from the Space Age. Canada ran screaming from the Arerospace Age. Avro!? And it was bipartisan, Tory, Labour, Liberal fought to see whom could divest of aerospace technology and hand their advancements and industry to the Americans and the French. British Aerospace?