A day in the life of an SRB

Curse this dial-up connection!!!!! I tried to download the file from the site instead of playing on the go. No luck. Anyone have this file and if so, how big is this. (I don't think I want to know, but it's worth a try).

mike

and it is a redirected ASX, so unless you know how, it may be hard to just "download"... it may also depend on your choice of player.

~ Duane Phillips.

That's what I was afraid of. Let's see if I get a response from NASA about obtaining the file. (Ya, right!).

mike

That's a great video. I really like the shots of the shuttle zooming away as the booster tumbles after separation. Anyone know what the gout of black smoke just before the booster hits the water is? Also, it looked like the splash from the other booster could be seen just as it hit. Do they really land that close together?

Mark E. Hamilton NAR #48641-SR ARSA #418

Mike Kruger wrote: "Anyone have this file and if so, how big is it."

The file is just over 150mb. I was able to save it to my hard drive with no problems. It's an amazing video to watch start to finish. Being able to go frame by frame during separation is really great.

The black puff of smoke just before splash down was explained by Anthony Cesaroni on the TRA list as:

"Those are shaped explosive charges going off to sever the nozzle in order to reduce impact stress on the case. I guess you don't want these to go off prematurely."

Very cool use of our tax-dollars.

Tony.

Tony,

How did you save it? I can only play it from the website. 150mb isn't too bad, for an over night download.

mike

Hey everybody,

I'm glad you like the video. I just today found the video of the forward-facing SRB camera. Its slightly less exciting, but the view of separation is phenomenal!

They say that NASA gets about a penny out of each tax dollar. I don't care how much of a boondoggle the shuttle/ISS may be, the photos and videos alone make it worthwhile to me every April 15th :)

Mike, I'm on a Mac and have the $30 Quicktime Pro installed. Once a video is downloaded, there is a small popup menu that allows you to save the video. I'm sure there's a way to do it on a Windows machine as well.

Dial-up? Ouch. For a couple of bucks I'll send it to you on a CD.

Tony.

See the post on this topic here by "waytoomuchstuff".

He wrote this answer, apparently quoting Anthony Cesaroni:

" The black puff of smoke just before splash down was explained by Anthony Cesaroni on the TRA list as:

"Those are shaped explosive charges going off to sever the nozzle in order to reduce impact stress on the case. I guess you don't want these to go off prematurely." "

So from that statement, I would venture to guess that the "other" splash you see is the nozzle from the booster in view, not the splash of the other booster.

Cheers!

~ Duane Phillips.