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Analyzing the Flight of Ares I-X. NASA reports on the performance of its historic test flight rocket, including why the parachutes failed. By Brittany Sauser. Ares I-X booster on its descent into the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA ...
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This test flight of the Ares I-X rocket will provide NASA an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, models, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I launch vehicle. The Ares I rocket is being designed to carry ...
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banner on the perimeter fence of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida reflects the excitement building in Kennedy's work force in anticipation of the flight test of the towering 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket. ...
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Falcon 9 on its Cape Canaveral launchpad. Credit: Chris Thompson/SpaceXElon Musk, the CEO and founder of the rocket upstart SpaceX, Thursday announced that. ... For those that we're excited to see the Ares 1-X finally launch, they should be even more..
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CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA managers reviewing preliminary data from October's test flight of the Ares IX, the prototype of the rocket that is supposed to replace.
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A parachute failure resulted in damage to the first stage as it splashed down nearly 150 miles off the coast to end the six-minute test flight. IMAGE: The first stage ignites on NASA's Ares I-X test rocket at launch pad 39B at Kennedy ...
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News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the upcoming Ares I-X flight test. The rocket is targeted to lift off at 8 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 27. ...
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ARES 1 FLIGHT TEST. The flight-test of Nasa's new Ares rocket (this one is Ares I-X) took place successfully today, October 28th. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flighttests/aresIx/index.html. ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Ares IX test rocket lifted off at 11:30 am EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted.
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The test flight for the Ares I-X rocket was scrubbed on Tuesday after repeated delays which included weather, a stuck cover on a probe, a cargo ship straying into the launch hazard zone, weather, and weather. “We had some opportunities, ...
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Even though the rocket is now stacked and sitting on the mobile launch platform in Kennedy Space Center's VAB, there is still a lot of testing and prep work to be done before it's ready to r.
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This is NASA's first flight test for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals. The flight test will provide NASA with an early ...
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The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76 — just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a sub-orbital altitude of 150000 feet ...
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NASA says their new Ares I-X rocket launched at 11:30 a.m. EDT 28 October 2009 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute test flight. The mission lasted about six minutes. Lift off occurred at newly-modified Launch Complex ...
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Just one week after the first test flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn't scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight ...
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Possible rain and high clouds are the only "ifs" so far for the test flight of the Ares I-X rocket on Tuesday morning, the first test flight of a new rocket for NASA in over 30 years. Central to the concern about weather is a possible ...
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New Ares I-X test rocket carries risks. NASA's one-of-a-kind Ares I-X flight test rocket, scheduled for launch at 8 a.m. Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center, has a higher risk of mission failure than a space shuttle, managers said today. ...
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Written by Nancy Atkinson After Wednesday's picture perfect launch of the Ares IX test rocket — which revealed no real showstoppers or issues as of yet for the vehicle — the obvious. ... This will be a suborbital flight of the five-segment first ..
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NASA's Ares IX test rocket lifted off at 11:30 am EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All told, the flight test lasted about six minutes: the launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B, a two-minute powered ...
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Space analyst Rand Simberg argues here that last week's test flight of the Ares IX rocket, NASA's planned, vaunted crew-launch system, did little to stem the controversy over the program.
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