tater Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Launch today was moved to tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 The right image should have like 3 faces with a model of the rocket in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 59 minutes ago, tater said: Interesting. Also this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Pretty cool Now they just need to DO IT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 They are so hamfisted about press releases. https://press.ariane.group/arianegroup-devoile-susie-a-liac-4735/?lang=eng https://player.vimeo.com/video/749959501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutabaga22 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 It looks like dream chaser mixed with starhip and hermes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said: It looks like dream chaser mixed with starhip and hermes. It also looks like one of the doctors dropped the poor thing when it was born. But if it works it works, it is pretty cool that might actually make a crew launch vehicle in the near future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Cool concept. Hopefully it will be built. Even more hopefully, in less than 25 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Seems like if it worked, they could make a bigger one with the S2 tanks/engine and actually reuse S2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndiver Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Please note that this is a concept but that there is unfortunately no funding on it yet. The goal of Arianespace with this announcement is to push for interest for manned spaceflight by Europe, and get funding for it. But it's honestly an original concept. Let's hope EU to join the manned spacerace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Still a cool concept. (I think the 40m3 of pressurized cargo has to be wrong since the docking port is in the cargo bay.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndiver Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 The video on which the pictures are based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndiver Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 New Kerbal challenge : https://www.space.com/europe-reusable-spacecraft-susie-ariane-6-rocket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 At 25t, it's about as challenging to get to the Moon as Orion.Not sure if it can land and return (would certainly take a crasher stage at the very least). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/10/ariane-6-slips/ NET Q4 2023, which as we all know most likely means 2024. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Looks like Vega C failed, not a good look for the Vega family, at least the launch commentators realized something was wrong, but it was interesting seeing the animations go like the mission was nominal long after the failure https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/12/21/two-pleiades-neo-earth-imaging-satellites-lost-in-failure-of-europes-vega-c-rocket/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 On 9/19/2022 at 9:10 AM, tater said: Still a cool concept. (I think the 40m3 of pressurized cargo has to be wrong since the docking port is in the cargo bay.) How did I completely miss this discussion? Seems like a very promising concept. Same landing mode (kick-flip and hover) as Starship. Has the advantage of pad abort capability, which Starship lacks. Interesting split flap-cum-landing-leg design for the lifting-body re-entry control. Making it a reusable upper stage would require too much of a stretch for the lifting-body re-entry to work the way it's depicted, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 One goal is to reduce cost, oddly it's hard to find the cost of this engine. Seems like many sources say "around €10M." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 N° 7–2023: Loss of flight VV22: Independent Enquiry Commission announces conclusions https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Loss_of_flight_VV22_Independent_Enquiry_Commission_announces_conclusions Quote Initial investigations, conducted right after the launch with the available flight data, confirmed that the launcher’s sub-systems reacted to the events as designed, and that the cause of the failure was a gradual deterioration of the Zefiro 40’s nozzle. More precisely, the Commission confirmed that the cause was an unexpected thermo-mechanical over-erosion of the carbon-carbon (C-C) throat insert of the nozzle, procured by Avio in Ukraine. Additional investigations led to the conclusion that this was likely due to a flaw in the homogeneity of the material. The anomaly also revealed that the criteria used to accept the C-C throat insert were not sufficient to demonstrate its flightworthiness. The Commission has therefore concluded that this specific C-C material can no longer be used for flight. No weakness in the design of Zefiro 40 has been revealed. Avio is implementing an immediate alternative solution for the Zefiro 40’s nozzle with another C-C material, manufactured by ArianeGroup, already in use for Vega’s Zefiro 23 and Zefiro 9 nozzles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callmecapy Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 idk if this is the right place to ask but when is the next launch of an Arian rocket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 (edited) 40 minutes ago, callmecapy said: idk if this is the right place to ask but when is the next launch of an Arian rocket Here's a site where you can check: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ Looks like April 13 for one of the last launches of an Ariane 5 (another in the summer) Quote April 13Ariane 5 • JUICE Launch time: Approx. 1215 GMT (8:15 a.m. EDT) Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA261, to launch the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE. The JUICE spacecraft, built by Airbus, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031. This will mark the final launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket. Edited March 5, 2023 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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