Rocket Blasts 137,500 Feet into Sub-Orbit

[pHILSANITY07]

thats a little over 26 miles up in space. If you'd fired that rocket from downtown fort worth it would land around the area of Loop 12 and I-30. Thats pretty cool

[Trip McNeely]

thats a little over 26 miles up in space. If you'd fired that rocket from downtown fort worth it would land around the area of Loop 12 and I-30. Thats pretty cool

Theres a lot of factors that would determine that.

[Geor!]

Theres a lot of factors that would determine that.

Like the O'Reilly factor

[46Tbird]

don't forget the x factor

[Trip McNeely]

Chill factor.

[46Tbird]

c&c music factor





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[Kart21]

Good to see Armadillo Aerospace is still making progress with the Stig rocket.

Knew one of the welders ( for Armadillo Aerospace ) as an instructor in welding school. That,s just too cool.
They are trying to build a rocket decent stage to land on ???
Easy in the movies. but not in practice.

[jason07]

Air density decreases with altitude. Things actually get colder at altitude. What makes space vehicles and high performance / high altitude aircraft 'get real hot' is the friction they create in flight while travelling through the thin atmosphere. The shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere at about 17,500 mph and that causes a lot of friction.

Oh ok. That makes sense.

[LS1Goat]

cool, but would it take off on a treadmill?

[black50]

Things actually get colder at altitude.

Wrong!!

google Thermosphere..It can reach 2000 degrees in the upper atmosphere

[soap]

damn. that's fast,

can that rocket launch. be mistaken by another country for a, preemptive strike?

[4.6coupe]

And it got recovered, right?! Parachute was cool to look at deploying. Good luck finding it!!

[Sgt Beavis]

Knew one of the welders ( for Armadillo Aerospace ) as an instructor in welding school. That,s just too cool.
They are trying to build a rocket decent stage to land on ???
Easy in the movies. but not in practice.

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think they are working with Elon Musk and SpaceX on the Grasshopper test platform. The idea is to eventually have a Falcon 9 rocket that is 100% reusable with both the first and second stages landing tail first after boosting a payload to orbit...

[CJ-95GT]

Sounded awesome.