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Delta IV RocketCam Videos
dmaas writes "High-quality RocketCam videos from the inaugural launch of Boeing's Delta IV rocket have just been made available (in MPEG-1 and Quicktime formats). Of note are the spectacular strap-on solid rocket booster separation, the extension of the second-stage engine nozzle, and the red-hot glow of ablative material in the second-stage engine. (disclaimer: my company prepared these videos for Ecliptic Enterprises, maker of the RocketCam system)" We did RocketCam photos for model rockets a few weeks ago, if you want to compare.
Amateur rocket link.
The large QT link seems corrupted somehow, last part is missing, try the small (file size) link, though you're not missing too much.
;-/
In a related story: conspiracy theorists claim this footage is fake because you can't see any stars in the background.....
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Hey those rockets are VERY cool.... I am impressed. I wonder.
It looks like right now they're using them for sattelite launches. I wonder, since space shuttles are gettin' kinda old and are and always have been rediculously expensive, will these Delta rockets eventually serve as the american's main launch vehicle for astronauts? That would be very cool.
To remain a little bit more on topic, they videos look great, all of this is very exciting.
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i had no problems viewing it... it's worth giving it a shot anyway. i'm wondering if there were any shots you could do to make it more interesting: most of it is blinding glare from the combustion.
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Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff, the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
Kind of makes your 37 minute commute to work seem slow, doesn't it?
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Damn! 4 posts and the videos are /. already?
I would mirror the videos.. but I dont think I want to hear somebody complain about 500000 gigs being sent on Saturday morning :)
The videos werent all that great anyways.
Hey, the Shuttle Cam from STS-112 is also available in that page, great!
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Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff, the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
But will the web server last that long?
I like how well you can see the shadow of the shuttle's rockets on the ocean. It kind of gives a nice perspective on the scope of the launch. But it sure sucked that we missed full angle of the acent, I would like to have seen the few minutes of earth getting smaller footage. it also sucks we missed the nose jet footage and the final zero g seperation. I tell you, those booster rockets are trouble trouble trouble...NASA needs a camera wash like in Steel Battalion.
In other news today, France surrenders to Boeing.
Here's more of the same!
This video is much better than the first, because the angle of view nicely avoids that glare from the exhaust.
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Right on dude, RPN rocks!!!!! to keep the post on topic however, you could have pointed out that the engineers that designed the rocket or the camera probably used an RPN calculator :).
You are undoubtly correct.
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I wonder how the politicians that feel the space program should be cut can watch something like this and not be moved... Sure the space program is expensive, but in spite of how trite it sounds, space really is the final frontier. We've explored pretty much all of surface of our planet, and short of being into submarines (which isnt anywhere as cool as the Space shuttle!) earth orbit and beyond are the last frontier for exploration. All of human history has been about going beyond the next hill... seeking out what we dont know. It seems awfully short sighted to expect that drive to just fade away... Sometimes a concept is worth more than money.
I think we all know why reverse polish notation isn't used.
because of morons like yourself?
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They spent a lot of money on these videos, but maybe it is time they upgraded that 2400 baud modem stuck to their website.
good one. try this.
..will inevitably come RocketCamWhores.
All this video did (besides impress me to the point of breathlessness) is reinforce the need for a cheap, reuseable launch vehicle. Watching 80% of the rocket fall away in stages - all those millions of dollars in raw materials - just goes to show how wasteful our current launch systems are. Even the shuttle sheds a large part of itself soon after launch - not to mention the fact that the shuttles are aging, inefficient behemoths that deserve a proper rest. We need to develop a fully reusable, inexpensive, efficient launch vehicle. No, there isn't any oil in space, and yes, it is terribly expensive to retrieve raw materials from off our planet, but the value of such a craft cannot be measured in dollars or tons - its value instead is found in the history books of the future, proclaiming it the first step in bringing the stars to our doorstep.
not even close
I wouldn't like to be a bug hitting *that* windscreen.
Their server is down already.
Download a movie directly from Boeing here.
QT format. The site also has Real Audio format.
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Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
Subject line says all. I've been trying to see those Gates Brothers movies, but the site has always says "503 Service Unavailable
The requested URL Bandwidth is temporarily unavailable." Did anyone mirror them?
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for those that seem to not be able to get the video from the main site
New York mirror
Italy mirror
Just stop putting hyperlinks in stories! The time it will take everyone to manually type in the URL's will stagger the onslaught, and the lazier readers won't even bother. Maybe this will keep from killing the poor little servers! :)
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Not suggesting "the launch didn't happen". Just looks to me like
they switched over to the proof-of-concept computer graphics simulation for the end of the video clip.
(Referring to QT 5 version of video.)
Hu Hu Hu, you said strap-on.
http://66.111.35.100/d4_launch_2002-11-20.mov
The rocketcam only stuff:
: //66.111.35.100/delta-iv-mpeg-hi.mpg
http://66.111.35.100/delta-iv-mpeg-lo.mpg
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What timing... it turns out I have moderator access today.
Should I mod this thread down to try to save my server?
Evan Dorn,
Ecliptic Enterprises Webmaster
p.s. Thanks a bunch, Dan.
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For those interested, the Delta IV is build in my home town of Decatur, Alabama. At construction time it was the largest Boeing building under one roof (or so they told us contractor). Massive complex. And from what I understand, the Delta IV's are one of the components of the National Missle Defense system that the Government has been developing. Interesting stuff in Alabama, lots of rockets and other stuff. ;)
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I was a computer tech and systems analyst in the aerospace biz for seven years, and here's some of my thoughts as I watch this footage:
Rocket building is about overcoming physics in a brute-force fashion, because budget concerns weigh heavily into the issue of getting your payload to low-Earth or geosynchronous orbit.
Those payloads have varying degrees of tolerance to G-forces, thus we can't just put everything in a Mother-of-All-Cannons and shoot them into space.
Most payloads are lifted into orbit as if there were human occupants included, whether or not there are such in the payload.
Most rocket technology, by and large, is at this point 40 years (or better!) old. I have actually been on projects where we have had to call engineers out of retirement after 30 years because their paper drawings, which hadn't yet been digitized, were starting to fade, and we need to know WHY they had designed certain structural and electronic features into their work.
Yes, solid fuel boosters and the shuttle are inefficient ways to get to space. We knew this before we designed the shuttle. But there is a cost-vs-efficiency trade-off which must be made, as well as a 'will to get the job done' factor. We no longer have a 'do-or-die' ethic as regards space utilization. Perhaps another Sputnik is in order...
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Dude, read the caption Part two: Late Ascent and Atlantis-ET Separation (video digitally enhanced to bring out detail)