Tag: SRB

#ULA- UNITEDLAUNCHALLIANCE #Vulcan |#NGLS- Centaur –ACES- The next generation launcher carrier vehicle- introducing its Newest Sister in the carrier rocket fleet..

kevinjamesngLeave a comment

As next generations of carrier rocket booster in carrying a payload heavier more, with more affordability, accessibilities to more capabilities with opportunities catering to more far reaches towards from Geo stationary orbit to space to the planet Pluto..  The newest Sister the ULA- United Launch Alliance – NGLS-Vulcan-Centaur- ACES hybrid has a slight different Dress silhouette cut than her older sisters, in which she wears a more sleeker, stream line figure… accessorizing with either a four to six SRB external Solid Rocket  Booster with also either comes with a four to five meter payload fairing configuration..

As its newest sister, the Vulcan-Centaur NGLS consist of a newly develop locally made engine, with an introduction of a newly develop ACES- Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage in which will gives an more advantage in capacities than her current sisters like her Atlas V .. Consisting in her main stage is two engines, while the advanced Centaur staging is consisted with a single engine..  in the second phased of the program development the NGLS-Vulcan the secondary staging will be replaced, accessorized with more advance ACES staging secondary booster staging in 2023 which will give more extreme equal capabilities comparatively to the Delta IV Heavy in launching heavier payloads ..

As the development staging in finalizing its final design process in which will undergo its CDR- Critical Design Review in finding the engines the manufacturing tooling, assembling  sites to the , also the launch complex sites  in which will finalized in the 2017 calendar year to its maiden flight in the 2019 launch scheduling..

ULA- UNITED LANUCH ALLAINCE | Delta IV AFSPC-6 – Launch cinematic Highlights- You Just might want to turn up the volume for this….

kevinjamesngLeave a comment

You Just might want to turn up the volume also the full screen resolution up for the Launch Highlights from 19th August 2016 from Space Launch complex SLC-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a very need coffee early morning at 12.00 EDT, “United Launch Alliance” launched a twin – share United States Air Force payload, in which it is two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites….   As you can see the preparations from the Atlas four assembly tower has it finalized the assembly with it slow retracting in prepping for the launch for that early morning as the super moon rises overhead with thundering roars of the Atlas Main engines and it’s solid rocket motors….Into near near-geosynchronous orbit… The twin GSSAP satellites are built by “Orbital ATK” in which this payload is design specifically design for enhancing the perception of operations of the US Air force’s U.S. Strategic Command space enhanced awareness operations.. One part of the operations of the launch is to bring awareness of spaceflight in bring satellite collision avoidance controls..  Also this is a dedication tribute launch to one of ULA’s Dearest work colleague, friend… Ramey Hill…

 

NASA-Space Launch Systems | Are you ready for a five segment SRB testing…?

kevinjamesngLeave a comment

 

On 28 June 2016, “NASA- Orbital ATK” is firing up the last test qualification testing for the five segment solid rocket booster in preparation for the return to moon on the year 2020…While the four segment solid rocket boosters were designed for the Space Transportation System in this was during the Space Shuttle era… The SLS system is designed along the same tooling and design heritage like the STS-Space Shuttle systems many elementary designs, tooling, are brought and inspire on to the SLS systems in order to reduce the operational cost… ..

The Testing is done at Promontory in Utah… in which is one of Orbital ATK’s testing facilities..  As part of this testing is done before an unmanned flight in a fully stack up Space launched System –SLS configuration to test flight on the 2018 launch calendar year… with the unmanned command Orion module with 154 feet long, with an excessive of 3.6 million pounds of thrust at Mach three…. Why not….?

STS | space transport system

kevinjamesngLeave a comment

That  night staying up till the early hours in the morning  and didn’t get to sleep till roughly fourish in the morning. watching the last launch of the Space Shuttle programme on NASA TV on ustreamTV.  It was ionic sad really that a there’s no transitional vehicle program to immediately to replace it within straight after. But least a year or so we’ll have to wait till when Space X with their Dragon and Falcon heavy or Boeing’s Orion and using the Shuttle’s heritage design to replace the role of the Shuttle.

Looking back when back in the early Eighty’s, that is the late twentieth Century on the date of  April 21 1981. Watching on the Phillp’s K9 Cathode Ray Tube color television set where TVNZ,  was live broadcasting the live launch of  the Space shuttle Columbia, OV-102, with it’s nicely matt white  painted (ET) External Tank, which carries the fuel of liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen to be combust in the (SSME) Space Shuttle Main Engines, also strapped right next to the ET, a pair of older designs of the ( SRB ) Solid Rocket Booster. using the O-rings, now days they use the J-ring seals designs, a very hard lesson learnth after the STS-51L (Challenger OV-099), which ground the shuttle fleet for a couple of years, till it got the okay to fly on Discovery (OV-103) behalf, also on the return to flight on Columbia’s on July 4 2006 independence Day, after a fatale hull breach of Columbia on February 1st 2003. 

In which lessons from the incidents lead to many redesigning of the existing systems, multiple new cameras was installed on the ET, SRB’s also following after launch checks of the newly extend Canada arm, (RMS) Remote Manipulator System  to do inspecting the Shuttle’s hull scans any foam damage or incursion that incurred during launch also the (ISS) International Space Station  plays a partakes in safety aswell.

Television coverage over the last few decades of watching NASA, have dynamicaly change in from watching coverage from television to the internet and through NASA TV to the NASA app on the iphone. On that note with the advet of the internet providing social media to keep in real time information through Facebook, and Twitter.

One thing I’ve notice in the end of this great programme is the way how they used, the names of the shuttles, for Discovery it been used to inspire once more ever so again to see what’s out there after Challenger and Columbia.  Given the naming of Atlantis, it’s fitting that it there will be another manned vehicle of a different heritage  soon to bear that name also her sisters once more.

– Enterprise- OV 101, – Columbia – OV 102- , – Challenger – ov 099 – , – Atlantis  – OV 104, – Discovery- OV 103,- Endeavour OV 105–

From STS 001– Columbia-OV 102

To STS 135-Atlantis-OV 104