Launch of Worlds Largest Rocket Delta IV Heavy with NROL-37
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2016
- The worlds currently largest rocket active has successfully launched with the top secret NROL-37 payload for the United States. The Delta IV Heavy launched from Space Launch Complex 37B at 17:51 UTC, June 11th 2016. This was the 32nd Delta IV launch, and the 9th Delta IV Heavy launch.
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I saw the thumbnail.....I literally thought it was KSP.
=:o>
If this was KSP the rocket would be 2 time bigger and only carry a 10th of the cargo to space ;)
You literally thought? As opposed to figuratively? Or what?
Through the Telescope!, ikr!
Through the Telescope! Same!
Wow ksp really improved their graphics
They went really downhill after the first separation though, must have been a problem with the atmospheric effects.
at least the kraken stayed away
It was nice to see Jebediah remain calm.
Shame they didnt have the reusable booster parts mod installed! :D
No no no its worse
I love the clean exhaust of the LH2/LOX engine.
Pure whater...
Now that you say 😳
CLEAN COAL
Yeah that's what makes this one secretly my favourite rocket. Yes Saturn V and Falcon 9 are cool but this one has a special place in my heart.
@@emptysoul6743 you didnt speak english right?
I love that crackling sound.
I do to. It’s music to my ears
I worked on the construction of pad 37B in 2000-2002. I've always been a "space/rocket nerd" but I had no idea what to expect before hand. I was shocked at the scale and scope of the launch complex. It may not seem that big but in real life its massive! It will definitely be one of the highlights of my career.
I did get to work and see things that were definitely one of a kind. Inside the launch table was pretty cool, its basically a huge plate steel structure above the flame chute that supports the rocket, it has sensors, and helium valves to spin start those RS-68 engines. The hydraulic cylinder/ram that lifts the rocket from horizontal to vertical was huge, probably 50'-75 in length', it had a tank the size of a shipping crate just for the hydraulic oil. The cryogenic fuel storage/transfer system was something that you don't see every day!
The hardest part I remember was working on the FUT (fixed umbilical tower), the elevator was off limits for the lowly contractors. When working on one of the top levels you need to make sure you brought everything you need, if not its a long walk back down and back up! At least the MST had a working elevator! MST aka the mobile service tower, its the +- 400' white building that moves on rails before launch.
It was also a beautiful place to work since its right on the ocean. One bad thing was the mosquitos. On certain days you needed to cover yourself in DEET, if not the mosquitos would eat you alive!
Even though I helped build the pad I've never seen a launch. One of these days I hope to do so but I'm not sure how many launches the Delta has left. It seems its days are numbered with the competition. I think the government is its only customer at this time. It's a shame we couldn't modify the Delta for manned flight. If NASA really wanted to the gap between the last shuttle and a modified delta could have been very short. I'm sure there are reasons but it could have been a temporary solution that may even be cheaper than what we are paying Russia.
Chris Barth damn, respect mate
What an interesting story! And i never thought mosquitoes was an issue :'D
Alpha Adhito Oh yeah! Just north of the ex shuttle/apollo pads is Mosquito lagoon, its also not too far from pad 37, they don't give it that name for no reason! Mosquitos are brutal down there!
We actually had shirts made that had a cartoon drawing of the launch pad with an electrician holding a reel of wire while a giant mosquito grabs ahold and takes off (launches) with him. I guess its one of those "you had to be there" type of things to find humor in it.
Another thing I remember during that time was that everyone seemed to develop something we called "the cape cough". It was a low grade, chronic, hacking cough that a lot of guys just couldn't get rid of. Yes, non smokers like me had it too. It lasted much longer than the average head/chest cold. For me it definitely was real and brought my energy levels down a lot. It disappeared when the job was over. Not sure what it was, could of been some chemical that some were sensitive to, some thought it may be remnants of rocket fuel/combustion products or it could of been a virus. Maybe it was the 7/10hr days that happened occasionally wearing down the immune system? IDK, just something I never experienced before or since.
I got to check out the pad during this launch... What The Holy Shit. Its AMAZING up close. I also got to see the VAFB Delta IV Pad (SLC-6) and its weird because that pad was originally built for space shuttle!
Vulkan: Games & Space Awesome, I had the chance to work on that pad but I couldn't travel out to the west coast back then. I bet the surrounding hills really reinforce and amplify the noise those three RS68's produce. Ive noticed that during liftoff at VAB hydrogen really seems to collect and and create quite a fireball during liftoff which sets fire to the boosters insulation, it seems much more pronounced than at the cape. At the cape I specifically remember hydrogen flame detectors being added on last minute beneath the launch table/ flame trench during pad 36B's construction. Hydrogen burns with very little visable flames. I guess it was a oversight on the origional blueprints on 36B's construction. I heard the engineers say the Delta IV's RS68 engines purge an enormous amount of hydrogen during start up.
Space X fans are becoming a little troll like.
I'm all for any effort in space.
Some perhaps are. Personally, I congratulate ULA for their efforts and success, and spectacular rocket. I am pro Space-X, but this is also a magnificent machine.
Sea
and we are 90th to get
What ship is that on your profile? It looks like an intrepid banged a galaxy while a nebula watched in the corner...
Whenever something gets near "pop culture", that will happen, it's a shame really. Anyway, it's always nice to see two big companies compete to have the best absolutely ridiculous flying machine, isn't it?
Great comment, saquist. A decade ago, then NASA chief, Mike Griffin testified in Congress: "For over 100 years, military and civilian aviation have co-existed in this country. Each has benefited greatly from the other. So why is it that so many so-called private space "entrepreneurs" get up each morning worried it will be a bad day unless they can find something to do to weaken, defame or damage my agency? " We are seeing the same thing on these message boards these days -- usually from people not old enough or knowledgeable enough to really understand just how it is that we got to where we are today.
4,889lbs of propellant burned per second. I know it's a big rocket but that's astonishing to me.
I live an hour from Vandenberg and the Delta IV heavies light up the sky when they pass overhead.
Considering that it was launched to a polar orbit, and still in the atmosphere at this point, I heard the thing pass over. I live in New York. Plus, a jet isn't that loud, and doesn't only have a noticeable sound for only 3 seconds.
FYI it went East-South towards the equator. See spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/10/video-animated-preview-of-delta-4-heavy-rocket-ascent-on-nrol-37/
They can't launch polar orbits from the Cape. That's Vandenberg.
Very much so. His heavy launch model looks like a Falcon 9 with two slightly shorter Falcon 9 s beside it. It looks strikingly like this one. Very much the same idea. It will however, land and reuse all 3 of those first stage boosters.
i like how clean the exhaust is with hydrolox
Awesome how you can see the Delta lV begin to follow the curvature of the Earth as it's upward trajectory changes to a more down range path as well...smiles
@Limey Lemon smiles...Sure you read my comment correctly? Did I sound likened to someone who has misunderstanding of basic orbital trajectory?
Hence "why all things" launched into Earth's orbit perform a roll maneuver to align with their projected down range orbital path ya know?...Just sayin'...smiles
@Limey Lemon giggles...I wasn't offended silly. By the literal wording of your first comment ("Rockets don’t just go straight up [ya know]") I interpreted it
as though you possibly misread my first comment. So maybe I misinterpreted your true meaning then? Either way my second comment has..."smiles"...at the
beginning und end so you NOT think any of it ist in anger. I wasn't feeling need to be defensive, you were fine silly. Easy to misread such things isn't it?...smiles
I can see how my second comment (Did I sound likened to someone who has misunderstanding of basic orbital trajectory?) can be thought written in anger.
If so? Sorry, not my intention, didn't mean it that way. Have a fun day...smiles
Are you a flat earther no just joking 🙃
The graphics in Kerbal Space Program are better.
yeah but you need better specs to run it. all i need for life is my eyes.
In many ways the eye's hardware is way more complex, advanced and "better" than any computer we have, when it comes to "rendering" visuals.
Also when it comes down to "computational power" the eye(combined with brain) can do things which the computer doesn't even get close too.
I can't upgrade my brain. :)
doggonemess No but you can scientifically train it to function "better".
lol
Listen the rocket engines roar. This is the way the sounds should always be recorded. Fantastic. Big thumbs up!
dat triple mainsail tho...
Nah, Those are some Vectors brah
+Haxorlols I tried building a delta 4 with vectors but it didnt work. Using mainsails i could send a sizable probe to a 5,000 meter Eeloo orbit in one launch.
I know someone will comments these haha
emperorSbraz IKR I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT!!
Ryan Adams is that an accomplishment?
You can do that with standart kerbal X
This never gets old.
And, is it me, or does that three rocket configuration speak to your inner 'sci-fi kid'? I'm sure they could put some kind of shrouding on it for liftoff that would fall away, but make it look kind of like a Leopard Class drop ship during take off?
As a SpaceX fan, I can confirm Falcon Heavy has nothing on the sound of an RS68. Even if it does have more engines.
Perhaps you should become more of a fan of space exploration, rather than a fanboy of one the groups currently engaged in it...
@@codymoe4986 that comment was 2 years ago my guy 💀
@@CT--tm2zm Stupidity and ignorant statements on the internet do not have an expiration date that I am aware of...
Not "your guy", schmuck...
@@codymoe4986 I remember SpaceX fans being fanboys...
so nice to see a launch without solid rockets
I thought flat earthers were a meme
samous But they exist
90% are trolls tho (at least it feels like 90% i hope so...)
How is not believing something that is only theory and mostly lies a meme? I learn by what I actually can study and see. I have only seen proof that the earth is not what they say it is. It is clearly not a sphere and actually a flat mass with mountains and rivers.
@AATHEISTU Once the methane and oxygen ratios enter the explosive ramge, the sun will ignite the atmosphere and the firment will be shattered. All our air will be sucked out into the void. It'll really suck.
@AATHEISTU In was making a joke and I assumed you were as well. I hope you were being sarcastic with your comment.
Amazing machine.
Saturn V be like: I see no god up here, OTHER THAN ME!!
Saturn V Gangsta Till BFR starts Flight to mars
I like how all the rocket scientists are making comments on here.
We've all been trained by KSP to give scientifically accurate and professional opinions.
too many people study aerospace engineering on college. there is no stem storage guys. companies just want better candidates for cheaper.
+Aerohk in* college
And end up with debt burden and menial jobs. Too many college graduates, the job market cannot absorb.
Most of the guys I went to school with got jobs in industry
Legit question:
What is the Payload? It must be huge to need a D4.
It's classified :/
spy sat
Amazing Rocket #
Falcon Heavy just kicked his ass
juan baena ayyy
juan baena Falcon Heavy uses 27 Merlin 1D engine while this uses only 3 of its own. Falcons are cheap indeed but they are not the most advanced in terms of tech
Huikwan Cheung the 9 engines on a single booster is basically the equivalent of one engine, there is not much difference except redundancy, if a problem occurs, only one or two engines fail, the whole booster doesn't, otherwise Elon Musk would have built a single engine and still beat the delta 4
juan baena spaceX fanbase is literally cancer
Huikwan Cheung I love ULA and basically all rocket companies but Falcon Heavy is the most technologically advanced, SpaceX changes and adds twenty-first century materials, and it can land .
Impressive launch, I like the footage.
playing i need a hero during the flight is jus epic
Wow makes me so happy to see USA back home putting up our own stuff.......outstanding NASA!
Its not nasa
its ula
Ula is owned by lockheed martin and boeing
Holy cow, it was burning almost 5,000 pounds of fuel a second. That's almost as much fuel as a car I once owned would use.
My neighbor worked on the payload for this mission. Obviously he won’t tell me what it was but I found it fascinating to hear him talk about the things that go into a classified launch. This was the first launch I wasn’t on base for in the past 4 years 😩
2:24 Is that, what appears to be smoke from the exhaust, actually the engine exhaust force pushing clouds behind it?
Soon to be retired by the Falcon Heavy. Nice launch though.
",..6 - 5 - 4,.. oh, wait,. is it the red button or the green one?!"
holy crap now that looks like a full on star wars ship launch . Nice
Congratulations UAL! Great work.
Hey Dave. United Airlines had nothing to do with it. (Couldn't resist.)
Looks like somthing that we dont need to now what is in rocket
Weapons. Probably lasers by which they will burn California and melt the ice caps.
The fact this went off successfully is pretty phenomenal!!
Me on the toilet after eating a whole chopotle burrito: 0:40
This stuff is great no matter what is launched or who launched it.
Why you use imperial units for scientific purposes? ;( Every time you do that, a kitten dies somewhere in the World ;(
USA! USA! USA!
Because we like it in the U.S.A. take your Europe crap and go home.
But I thought the whole deal with you guys was that you *rejected* our Empire...? Why still use the units that even *we* eventuality had to admit were just needlessly complicating things?
[BRIT GUY IS CONFUZLED]
k re is ignorant, he thought imperial units was American and that is why he had no answer for you.
We hate foreign kittens.
No on board camera?
it's a top secret spy satellite they're not going to show what it looks like when it's deployed
I wasn't talking about the bird, just the side of the rocket for booster sep.
+Robert Dambeck That can show exactly where the satellite is headed and most importantly what exactly the NRO is looking at. This could lead to an international uproar for the countries below it. For the upcoming Space X launches for the NRO, there likely won't be onboard cameras. Those missions are so hush hush that Space X doesn't have them mentioned at all on their website.
Where the satellite is headed is no secret at all. All orbits are known and tracked. It's impossible to keep it secret anyway, because there are tracking stations.
Not to mention you can just look up and see it after dark, then deduce it's orbit parameters with a little trig.
Stage separation at 6:29 - Do the first and second core stages really separate at that speed? Judging by the graphics there's no ullage motors firing, is it spring loaded separation? Is it drag on the second stage (not sure what the dynamic pressure is at >15mach and >60 miles up)? - too many questions... too little time... must get back to launching Kerbals.
Regarding the weight check at 3:30 - did that account for the reduced gravitation field at the altitude or was it a pound equivalent of mass that was quoted?
Humanbeings are still not using antimagnetic field power to reach out of their athmosphere :)))) ft 2018.. we will give a touch... it seems like steam engines which you have discovered first :)))
Wow, just think of how much work went in to get that low quality animation. So much more inovative than SpaceX's live onboard camera feed and drone ship landings.
Do you mean the Text overlay and such?
No. He means the animation that start at 4:47.
Mathew Fitchett oh, ok.
They could easily put on board camera's on the rocket, without showing the payload.
+Carl Hancock spacex has launched payloads for the military, yet it still shows the outside view
This is amazing
SpaceX may have those swanky recoverable boosters, but the delta has a style all its own.
The world's largest rocket, for another sixty days or so.
Not the worlds largest rocket anymore! Fly starman fly!
Ghost Nappa agree!
Falcon heavy makes this rocket look puny
i must add that Delta had a cleaner burn on launch? just my observation...
Quick Review Falcon Heavy can lift more and has more thrust. That is how rockets are rated.
falcon heavy is not proven
So much power.....LOVE it!!!!
The cameraman has the best seat in the world!! LOL. Great "show"! LOL
This record gets broken tomorrow :) Falcon Heavy, baby!
Nope this rocket is still larger
Nope baby
why did the video go to cartoon mode ?
Exactly
Becaude it was getting hard to see, you dont have any evidence of this being faked. I literally watched this one launch, does that make me fake?
And far did you follow it Ryan ?
I saw it from about 3 miles away, and followed it until it was out of viewn
And from their I believe right in the Ocean- People in Florida have seen them.
This whole thing feels like the 1960’s. Thank god for SpacEx!
Freudian slip?
excellent clip thanks for the share and keep up the good work
Update title: “Former Worlds Most Powerful Rocket”
I would say your logic is flawed my friend. On D4H, losing one out of three engines would likely mean total mission failure. The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are designed with multiple engines for redundancy. Falcon 9 is designed to survive multiple engine-out scenarios and still perform it's mission. Same with Falcon heavy. On another note, I'll take 27 American made, 21st century engines over three Russian made relics any day, and twice on Sundays.
mo lo so you’d rather spend $400+ million to get a 60,000 lb payload in LEO or would you rather pay $90 million to get a 140,000 lb payload into LEO if you choose the delta IV heavy your just a fool plain and simple
Well obviously that makes D4H far superior. The exhaust gasses look prettier so it's a better rocket. You do know the difference between a hydrogen and kerosene engine, right?
@@ryanparmenter2395 I'm bad at all this rocket stuff and I'm not always up to date, but I've always thought the saturn V was the most powerful rocket. Or am I missing something like size wise and stuff. Sorry for the silly question.
Falcon Heavy > Delta IV heavy.
Hey Graham. You are counting your poultry before it clucks. Maybe next month...?
True, but when the Falcon Heavy does launch, it will be able to carry twice the payload for less than 1/4 the cost. Yeah, the comment was a little early, but I'm just super excited for Falcon Heavy.
Fair enough. The FH static firing could come as early as today. And on launch day, we'll all be out there watching and hoping for the best... : ]
Graham Kyhl got owned bruh?
Videha Dhothaka yeet
Beaut camera work!
Ahhh that deep rumble of power. amazing
spaceX hold my beer
World's largest rocket is the Saturn V
Raidzor つ ◕_◕ つ Not even remotely true. I'll let it slide
No. Just found out that the SLS is 7 meters taller. But still it is one of the largest. The delta IV is half of the height and mass.
This is the largest ACTIVE rocket, not the largest ever.
What about the SLS? Or the Spacex rockets?
Dean Borchert Not true.
Such a thing of beauty
Would be nice to have cameras looking down at the launch site and the telemetry showing on the screen. Any plans to drop these thrusters and have them fly back to the pad?
This looks more powerful than falcon heavy even though it is half of what falcon does.
QuickPlay and its weaker than falcon heavy
NicoAW yes!
and soon these will be obsolete, Falcon H can carry a bigger payload for less money
You mean "first stages" :-) Falcon heavy has three! Amazing technology. :-)
that's going to be amazing to watch, three first stages landing at the same time
Well, two first stages at the same time, and then a third one much further downrange. I wonder how close whey will dare to land that first pair to each other >:)
Not really, the two side boosters will land back at launch site (at the same time), while the center core will continue on and land on drone ship.
Falcon is using kerosene+LOX, not some fancy shit.
What's happening to the exhaust as it goes transsonic? All of a sudden great big clouds start to trail after it.
Falcon Heavy- 64Mt into orbit for 90 million... Delta IV Heavy 32mt into orbit 300-500 million to launch. Efficiency is the winner with the Falcon Heavy.
2:05 for some sick chemtrails.
It's vapor. You see it when the vehicle goes transonic. Have you ever seen the vapor cone on the Saturn V? Same thing
@@jmstudios457 Nope, definitely chem trails to make the friggn' frogs gay.
@@ender003 oh I see where your coming from
@@jmstudios457 lol
When will they move to Metric? ..... :\
lol
the scientists at nasa use metric. but the tards on tv use imperial
Americans won't switch to metric, because they won't accept foreign rulers.
I'll show myself out.
But the imperial measurement system isn't American...
Dominick Smith I think there is a comment in your stupid nationalism
Such an amazing video
Great footage
Falcon Heavy is going to eat Delta Heavy's lunch, lol. Lookout, SpaceX is about to make history again ;?)
Russell Popham February 6th baby
Broccoli_32 Just a few hours left... 1:30 - 4:30 pm EST
February 6th, 2018: the day Delta IV Heavy died.
Ryan Parmenter yeah really lol with the falcon heavy bringing a payload of 140,000 pounds and 90million at launch compared to the delta IV heavy costing upwards of 400 million and only brining 60,000 into low earth orbit that’s more than double the payload and roughly a fifth of the cost
Soon to cost an estimated 600M+ if the 1B government subsidy contract expires without renewal.
But isn't the Saturn V the biggest rocket?
Jorgan Morgan™ not active
Clement Limuel Okay I got it
biggest ever I believe. but as mentioned before its not active
That's what I was about to ask.
Just wait for the bfr XD
The best roar from any rocket
The CIA informed Putin that he needed hair transplants afterwards...
If you are in a scientific field, talk in metric for goodness sake!
mworld it would be nice, but a lot of engineers use non-metric. And, some weird units are actually more convenient for certain applications (like eV instead of Joule or Barns instead of square meters). Even some types of metric are weird, like Gaussian CGS instead of SI MKS units, and produce bizarre variations of equations (particle physicists always divide magnetic field by c, and God help you the first time you try to figure out statcoulombs). The story is more complicated than "Why the hell doesn't everyone use metric??"
mworld p
WIECƎq Nah we do it just to piss people like you off
mworld, the Metric System : the U S regime needs better brains first ,the current ones would explode over the effort.
I dont know why but I don't like to see rockets without a smoke trail.
For some weird reason I completely agree with you.
Azarack Nargothrond Marcelo
That's because it's a cryogenic engine, superheated steam comes out of there at very very high speeds.
Kaa M
I reminds me of a starfleet spaceship taking off when it doesn't have a smoke trail.
Same same
Beautiful.
Those are some nice looking engines.
why does the rocket turn sideways during flight as if it is changing corse
if you launch something straight up - it will eventually fall. They give rocket horizontal speed so it curves the Earth faster than it falls and can stay in orbit
Actually the rocket is only providing velocity to the payload to escape it from earth's gravity the more the weight of payload the more thrust is needed to provide that velocity.All gto satellites are headed east towards equator with velocity equals 9.88km/s...
First: Many different camera angles, to beat the clouds. Second: All successful orbital flights smoothly "arc over downrange." They don't "turn sideways!"
Polar Orbit..Think before you comment, Learn!
An orbitis basicaly a free fall back to the panet, exept that you are going sideways so fast that when you come down to the planet youn "miss" it. In other words, think of spinning a ball with a rope on it around you, it doesnt fall to the ground because of its sideways velocity
Falcon heavy makes this look like a bottle rocket lol
While I love SpaceX, you can't deny the intelligence and hard work that went into building this machine.
If they could land and reuse those side boosters and the main booster “falcon heavy style” that would be so epic
God, that's such a cool rocket. Sad that it won't be flying much more.
All that money and awesomeness to put something in space that we have no idea what it does. Super creepy.
It's one of several types of spy sats and not sure which of the several it is. You did notice the comment about ending the programming as they were preparing to ditch the fairing didn't you.
It's vital to know what our adversaries are doing in real time. It prevents conflict when we have the ability to see their weapons, know where they are and know where they are going. If there's a trust gap between you and your government then that is a shame for both, but we need these satellites and our military deserves the advance warning and situational awareness these provide. A level of secrecy is also important as it isn't wise to allow an adversary or competitor to know your capabilities and vulnerabilities unless you choose to do so. Everything which is secret is not necessarily nefarious. Some secrets keep us safe.
A rumor down here at the time (2016) was that this big bad boy was headed for a parking orbit high over east Asia to listen in on every single cell phone call made or received inside North Korea. Quien sabe?
It's so a couple privileged rich guys in the world can zoom into their enemies lunch plates to see if they are eating more expensive meats than their enemies.
More billion dollar technology spying on the homeless. Yay US government!
Damn, I miss the old shuttle launches. Much prefer fire and smoke to these nice "clean" rockets ;-)
Largest operational rocket.
I miss the Saturn V, that thing could really set you back in your seat and shake loose some fillings , not like the easy ride in the shuttle. :)
+Andre Blanchard yeas Saturn. These are pussy rockets
It looks like the space shuttle had about 85% of the thrust of the Saturn V, so it wouldn't shake the ground that much less than the Saturn V.
Astronauts considered the Saturn V to be an "old man's rocket" with a much smoother (12 minute to orbit) ride compared to the Titan's (the Gemini booster) five and a half minute to orbit.
I miss the Saturn V's, even though I wasn't alive when that all happened.
Amazing!
Awsome launch
Anddddddd, there goes $375M
LOL
Lets see, we'll just take $375 million from everyone, put it into this top-secret space launch which nobody can know about.... aaannnd... it's gone... It's all gone.
Dammit, I knew I misplaced my car keys somewhere.
perfect way to swindle 375 mill from the tax payer.
when it detects a launch of a north korean nuke it'll be money well spent. But yeah hopefully thats unlikely and therefore awfully expensive. But you gotta have eyes everywhere these days if you want to ensure national security.
Cool... But can it twerk?
very clean burn
Wow that was a clean exhaust, just water vapor, and no toxic plume like Space X rocket
exactly and it is currently the biggest rocket and it manages all that with LOX LH only thats impressive
Toxic plume from kerosene? Wut?
HyperBorey: Are you sniffing kerosene?
I still wouldn't go under the vapor though! Haha. Also, most rockets use Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen as their main fuel source, not just the SpaceX rocket which is the Falcon 9.
2Phast4Rocket Compare it to Proton fuel, then talk about toxic.
Them engines burn too clean. Get rid of the catalytic converters on them and install F-1 Saturn V engines. There's nothing like seeing and hearing dirty, powerful rockets - the kind that leaves a thousand foot+ flame and smoke trail to remind everyone of what hell on earth looks like. Every time they send up a rocket, it should to make a "statement".
lmfao fuck up
Actually, clean burning engines like those on D4H make it easy to see when the vehicle goes supersonic in flight (shock waves, enormously long water vapor contrail, etc. ) Happens at 2:04 in this video and the commentator calls it (and Max Q) perfectly. No matter how many times I watch, it always gives goosebumps!
Putin huilo-o-o La la la
That huilo is ruska kurwa bliat. And he needs a space expedition to the Sun. :)
+Karl Pershing the Greatest Shmack in the World!
Damn, New KSP update looks good
Enserio este video biene del 2016, o tiene 2 meses??
If you watch videos on rocket launches, you will see that they go straight up but once they get to a certain area they turn. Do your research!!! Don't be fooled!
Actually, they don't ever go straight up, they all begin to curve because in order to go into orbit they have to have more than just vertical movement. Going straight up will result in coming straight back down. It is the angular momentum coupled with the downward movement of gravity that causes things to orbit. Do your research!!! Don't be a fool!
Buy a globe or basketball, tennis ball, etc. If you want something to orbit that ball you would never go straight up to do that. Use your finger and move your finger tip around the ball just above the surface. Your finger tip represents a satellite. It must start from the surface, 'launch' to a height just above the surface and accelerate to a high velocity. If you move your finger straight up from the surface you will have acheived escape velocity and your finger will continue up forever; if you want to orbit, you must move your finger around the ball. Now close one eye and place it near the 'launch' site. 'Launch' your finger around the ball again and observe how it must pass behind the horizon before rising again from behind the opposite horizon. Also, as a side note, there is no up or down in space. Everything is relative. Is the sun up at night? No it is down for you, but up for Asia.
Flat earthers like this guy are dumb enough to think a rocket would just have to go straight up to pop something into orbit.
CaptainXanax I don't think they understand the word orbit. There seems to be a disconnect between what many think a satellite does and what they actually do. Many think satellites just float in one place in total weightlessness. No satellite ever sits still or is without mass. Their velocity may differ depending on altitude but they are in constant motion. To orbit is to circle an object and flying straight up could never achieve an Earth orbit. Or some of them may truly just be dumb.
You have got to be a Trump supporter.
lol another spy satellite... notice the pyramid sticker on the side?
Bro Brah The pyramid logo is a Delta. As in 'Delta IV'; the type of rocket this is. Like having the Corvette logo on a Corvette.
C'est tellement magnifique...
This is the historycal moment !
Sorry religious people, but science will continue.
I don't understand this sentence. Why would religious people be sorry that science is continuing?
To all the SpaceX fans nagging on NASA. Please remember that NASA Already has the Delta IV, they've almost finished the SLS. And the Orion capsule is already built and has been tested for re entry, spashdown, and a sound test. So far SpaceX has landed on a barge and made a few animations about how it'll go.
NASA does not "have" the Delta IV. They can *buy* a Delta launch, but United Launch Alliance owns and flies the Delta rockets. This was not a NASA flight, but one for the United States National Reconnaissance Office to put up their NROL-37 satellite. Also, NASA has far from finished the SLS, as construction on it hasn't yet produced a flyable prototype, and the first test launch isn't scheduled until 2018 (even that may be delayed).
Falcon Heavy will come sooner than SLS
SpaceX has already went on 10 missions to the International Space Station
Falcon heavy will be done earlier than sls, although i cant wait for either of them, and the new glenn, and vulcan, its going to be an amazing few years!
AndromedaGaming a year later the falcon heavy launch is tmrw hahaha
i like space video because my favorite rocket is delta 4 and space shuttle
Beautiful sight.