Transparent Rockets

[Toucan]

This is a very interesting video showing the Saturn V, the Space shuttle, Space X's Falcon Heavy and NASA's SLS are depicted transparently so you can see whats going on inside as they launch.
The Saturn V is naturally the thirstiest girl of them all, but the others aren't exactly shy with their fuel supplies.

 

[Spacescifi]

3 hours ago, Toucan said:

This is a very interesting video showing the Saturn V, the Space shuttle, Space X's Falcon Heavy and NASA's SLS are depicted transparently so you can see whats going on inside as they launch.
The Saturn V is naturally the thirstiest girl of them all, but the others aren't exactly shy with their fuel supplies.

 

 

Very nice.

Now I wanna see a solid booster transparent.

Or what I really want is a reusuable bipropellant solid/chemical booster.

Best of both worlds!

[RCgothic]

I was a little curious about the timings. Do S-IC and FH really burnout at the same time? Do 4 segment and 5 segment boosters really burn out at the same time?

[Flavio hc16]

this video however shows how much of a beast those rs25, they are a nightmare to produce/mantain, but boy are they good

[sevenperforce]

9 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Now I wanna see a solid booster transparent.

That's what's shown.

9 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Or what I really want is a reusuable bipropellant solid/chemical booster.

What is that?

52 minutes ago, RCgothic said:

I was a little curious about the timings. Do S-IC and FH really burnout at the same time?

S-IC had a burn time of 150 seconds; FH's side boosters on the first test flight had a burn time of 152 seconds.

52 minutes ago, RCgothic said:

Do 4 segment and 5 segment boosters really burn out at the same time?

You can design solid boosters for any burn duration you want, but the 4-seg and 5-seg boosters do burn out at approximately the same time, yes. Adding more segments adds more burn area, which adds more thrust but does not increase burn duration. These are center-burning SRBs (technically they burn out a 12-finned star but close enough).

[kerbiloid]

4 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

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Or what I really want is a reusuable bipropellant solid/chemical booster.

What is that?

Spoiler

 

[mikegarrison]

Yes, if you watched the video you could see that they also animated the solid booster fuel being burned away.

I assume the comment about a "bipropellant solid/chemical booster" refers to a hybrid rocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid-propellant_rocket