3000 mph

It's 0 - 60 mph time is crap though. My gixxers faster.
 
This pretty cool. Did anyone else get confused whether in which direction you were looking?
 
caboose483 said:
I wonder what the 0-60 time would be if the shuttle was horizontal on a rocket sled track.
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At the beginning of the burn; just under 2 seconds (1 g acceleration)
At the end of the booster burn; just under 0.5 seconds (4 g acceleration)
 
Wow, I never knew what an engineering feat it was to blast out of the atmosphere.
I wonder what are the temps when that thing blast off? I wonder what they made the blast pad out of, lol
 
The gas exit tunnel is made out of concrete and laid with bricks inside. Those bricks have just been recently repaired last year on one of the pads.
 
I heard they wanted to make it out unobtanium, but found it impossible to get their hands on the stuff.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Pretty interesting seeing the 'bow wave' as they approach Mach 1.
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GoPro ain't got nothing on that camera. That camera takes going mach 50 and stands a free fall from the edge of the atmosphere
 
RockerGuy said:
GoPro ain't got nothing on that camera. That camera takes going mach 50 and stands a free fall from the edge of the atmosphere
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Probably developed by NASA and worth millions.
 
RockerGuy said:
GoPro ain't got nothing on that camera. That camera takes going mach 50 and stands a free fall from the edge of the atmosphere
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Some of the cameras on the space shuttle and on the International Space Station were designed by NASA, but some were designed in Canada. There are at least three great Canadian aerospace companies, which make cameras for space. Btw, the cameras on SRBs (solid rocket boosters) don't have to survive the fall back into the ocean.
 
ViperZ said:
Btw, the cameras on SRBs (solid rocket boosters) don't have to survive the fall back into the ocean.
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It'll be interesting to see how they design it to absorb the impact before it reaches to the camera itself
 
RockerGuy said:
It'll be interesting to see how they design it to absorb the impact before it reaches to the camera itself
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Like I said, they don't have to survive the fall and the landing. The whole point of those cameras is not our entertainment or re-usability, those cameras are there to watch for ice chunks coming off the big tank and (hopefully not) hitting the ceramic tiles, which cover the shuttle's underbelly (those tiles are needed for going back through the atmosphere, because of high temperatures due to friction with the air). We lost Columbia because of this and almost lost another one. No tank mods ever fully fixed that ice problem.
 
ViperZ said:
Like I said, they don't have to survive the fall and the landing. The whole point of those cameras is not our entertainment or re-usability, those cameras are there to watch for ice chunks coming off the big tank and (hopefully not) hitting the ceramic tiles, which cover the shuttle's underbelly (those tiles are needed for going back through the atmosphere, because of high temperatures due to friction with the air). We lost Columbia because of this and almost lost another one. No tank mods ever fully fixed that ice problem.
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Foam, not ice.
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