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This was a 3500 lbf hybrid rocket motor static test fire located about 25 miles north east of Majove in the Antelope Valley in southern california. I was just a spectator to this test, so I don't ...

On Sept. 10, 2009, NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch ...

A firing of a Masten Space Systems lox/ipa rocket engine, using an all aluminum chamber.

The last firing of the evening with the new aluminum chambered engine on Masten Space Systems' XA-0.1B-750 single engine VTVL flight demonstrator. The aluminum engine is incredibly light compared to ...

Test fire of the Ares I First Stage Five Segment Solid Rocket Motor (Development Motor 1), that occured on September 10th, 2009 (Video uploaded half an hour after the actual test). www.nasa.gov

First test firing of the Ares I first stage solid rocket booster. DM-1 (Demonstration Motor) is the first of the new five segment solid rocket boosters to be used as the first stage for the Ares ...

Armadillo Aerospace's Tube Rocket undergoes its first test firing, and the concrete pad is just bursting with excitement. This is a longer burn at lower final pressure than the vehicle will see in a ...

First static test of the booster for the Ares I rocket, set to send man back to the moon and eventually to mars. The week before this video was taken another test was attempted, but a problem was ...

DM-2 5 Segment Ares-1 SRB Motor Test

This is a compilation of Nitrous Hybrid firings of the eAc propulsion development for SpaceShipOne.

eAc (Environmental Aeroscience Corp) developed and fired the first solid propellant Aerospike motor in 2003. Aerospike nozzles are designed to be altitude compensating and self adjust the expansion ...

Static test of the Copenhagen Suborbitals HEAT-1XP rocket engine. Fueled with polyurethane and LOX. Also test of parachute deployment. Congratulations to the team on the impressive burn! Visit ...

Static test of the Copenhagen Suborbitals HEAT-1X rocket engine. Fueled with paraffin and LOX. So far the greatest amateur rocket engine ever fired with almost 7 tonnes thrust. Hats off to the ...

300 fps video from a Masten Space Systems static test on May 19, 2009 simulating a flight. Actual burn lasted 9 seconds. Different throttle levels are simulated during this test. A graphite plate ...

This is the test firing of NASA's new Methane rocket, which could be the key to deep space exploration, because methane is very prominent in space, and could be easily harvested, reducing launch ...

Test firing of two Merlin 1C engines at the SpaceX test facility in McGregor, Texas. Powered by liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene, the pair of Merlins produced over 181000 pounds of thrust ...

A 40 second static firing of the second stage (actual flight stage) of the Falcon 9 rocket. November 15, 2009, SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas. Notice the gimbaling of the gas generator nozzle ...

This is the second test of the 3" diameter seven point Star 2-segment unigrain. This was tested in Randy Dorman's short motor casing with his nozzle throat sized for a four grain Bates configuration ...

This is the second firing of the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab's eight inch diameter, two grain solid rocket motor. It burns about 60 lb of composite propellant in approximately 10.5 seconds. The ...

UCLA Rocket Project static firing the HyPE 1A Test Engine. Fuel is aluminized paraffin, oxidizer is nitrous oxide. There was a problem with the nitrogen pressurization system which prevented the ...

A legacy of smoke and fire is celebrated in the May episode of "Focus on Marshall." The "Focus on Marshall" team traveled to Promontory, Utah, for the final ground test of a space shuttle solid ...

This was the second of thee 20-second burns, engine is LOX/Ethanol with a Helium pressurization

High speed video (300fps/one tenth speed) of the very first fire on Masten Space Systems' new VTVL rocket vehicle, XA-0.1B. A four engine vehicle, this is engine Y+. This first test is a start ...

Testing very small throttle movements with a 500 pound-force throttleable rocket engine on Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B rocket vehicle. The engine runs on liquid oxygen and isopropyl alcohol, and ...

Ares I Demonstration Motor Static Test Fire September 10, 2009 This is the 5 Segment SRB First Stage of the Ares I Launch Vehicle 3.6 million pounds of thrust 22 million HP

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A test firing of Armadillo Aerospace engine #79, a liquid fueled film cooled rocket engine running on liquid oxygen and ethanol. Thrust is near 5000lb, for scale the nozzle exit is 7" in diameter.

Static firing of Aerojet SRB used on heavier Atlas V configurations. Once ignited, the booster burns for 90 seconds before burning out. The Atlas V rocket can carry up to 5 of these boosters, as of ...

Presented by collectSPACE.com -- The Source for Space History and Artifacts. NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, a two-minute, full-scale test of the ...

Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor This video shows a full-scale rocket motor test to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft's launch abort ...

Closeup of rocket fire in high speed, with a bit of a startup transient. The pulsing at the end is the purge gas pushing the extra propellant in the lines out. The rocket is hinged and is commanded ...

Presented by collectSPACE.com -- The Source for Space History and Artifacts. The thunderous roar from a space shuttle solid rocket booster reverberating and rebounding off the mountains of northern ...

Dual Engine Test, 5/18/07

This is the test firing of NASA's new Methane rocket, which could be the key to deep space exploration, because methane is very prominent in space, and could be easily harvested, reducing launch ...

The deserts of Promontory, Utah came alive with fire and thunder as NASA and ATK tested the Development Motor-2 (DM-2). The five-segment, first-stage of the Ares rocket was activated at 9:27 am MDT ...

NASA tested the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket. The static firing of the five-segment solid motor, designated development motor -1 was conducted at the ATK test facility in ...

Plasma test shots from the VASIMR VX-100 prototype plasma rocket housed at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The video is slowed down to 1/2 speed. In general, these types of thrusters (ion thrusters, ...

After being exposed to the full power VASIMR exhaust for ~5 seconds, several plasma diagnostics can be seen glowing red hot after the shot, even with the interior lights on! Based on the color of ...

This is a record power level test firing in a series of experiments with the VASIMR VX-200 plasma rocket prototype. The rocket's 1st stage (a Helicon plasma source) was fired at 30 kW using a ...

This video shows what it's like to fire the VASIMR plasma rocket, the highest power steady-state electric propulsion device in the world, located in Houston TX. Video was taken with the POV.1.5 ...

ATK Thiokol Space Shuttle static rocket booster at night. User KMF12 writes to say he was the back-up mechanical engineer for this motor (FSM-13), and one of his duties was to make sure that the ...

This video shows the startup of the VASIMR 1st stage over 5 seconds, the increasing power of the second stage over 3 seconds, a plateau of full power operation for 5 seconds, and then rocket shut ...

This video shows the VASIMR VX-200 during a 30 second firing of it's first stage, and a 15 second firing of it's second stage. www.AdAstraRocket.com The Astra Rocket Companys VASIMR® ...

The Hyperion II is designed as a 12" diameter sounding rocket capable of lofting a 100lb payload to an altitude of over 100 miles for use as a research or atmospheric target rocket. The hybrid ...

eAc fired a series of 16" Nitrous Hybrids in preparation for the development of the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne propulsion system. This was the second firing of this scale of nitrous hybrid ...

eAc developmental firing of composite nozzle.

eAc tested a thrust tailoring system that allows for mixing of different fuel types within the same hybrid grain. The layers shown here contain high and low levels of metals which is evidenced in ...

This is a test firing of a new 7500 pound thrust rocket engine. It runs on liquid methane.

My first rocket motor for RCS. Based on Masten Space Systems' igniter. Compare to original igniter www.youtube.com

For five seconds on July 12th, flames lit up the night sky on Edwards Leuhman Ridge. That's when the Air Force Research Laboratory's Propulsion Directorate, Detachment 7 conducted part of a new ...

This is a video describing the initial development of a nanoscale aluminum and water ice (ALICE) propellant. This work was done by a collaborative effort between Purdue and Penn State University and ...

Static test of Development Motor 2 in Utah on August 31, 2010

ATK successfully test fired their 5-segment ARES rocket motor Aug. 31, 2010 in Box Elder County.

The static test fire rocket motor at ATK on 4/21/2011

The Hyperion II is designed as a 12" diameter sounding rocket capable of lofting a 100lb payload to an altitude of over 100 miles for use as a research or atmospheric target rocket. The hybrid ...

eAc fired a series of 16" Nitrous Hybrids in preparation for the development of the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne propulsion system. This was the first firing of this scale of nitrous hybrid rocket ...

In 2006 UP Aerospace and Cesaroni Technology teamed to develop the SpaceLoft rocket propulsion system. The system was designed and fully flight qualified in less than 6 months. The powerful rocket ...

SpaceX successfully test fires SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in efforts to change the future of human spaceflight. These engines will power a revolutionary launch ...

Second test of our 7-point 2-segment 3" diameter Star unigrain KNO3/sorbitol propellant. Nozzle used was sized for a 4 segment motor (normally would be burning at 600 psi chamber pressure).

Second static test of a 2-segment star unigrain KNO3/sorbitol rocket motor. Nozzle is sized for a 4-segment unigrain propellant for a larger motor casing. DISCLAIMER: No nitrous oxide was used in ...