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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.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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,
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p.s. Thanks a bunch, Dan.
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