News Source: Fox News
| 27 days ago
Wednesday's Ares I-X rocket test flight, causing damage to the spent booster when it splashed into the Atlantic Ocean harder than planned. ," said Ares I-X mission manager Bob Ess on Friday. "Afterward, when we saw the parachutes we assumed,...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 27 days ago
Ares 1-X rocket — it’s first stage, to be precise — was badly damaged as it hit the ocean following Wednesday’s test launch . According to a post on Florida Today ’s website, the solid-fuel motor’s casing bent on impact after two of its...
News Source: Press TV
| 29 days ago
Ares I-X test rocket has successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day after bad weather delayed its launch...The flight test took about six minutes from its launch until the splashdown of the rocket's booster stage. The launch...
News Source: NewKerala
| 29 days ago
The 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to nearly 3 g�s and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a sub-orbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 29 days ago
For the first time since 1981, the rocket that took off from a Kennedy Space Center launching pad yesterday was not a space shuttle. With a clearing in a partly cloudy sky, the Ares I-X -- a prototype of the National Aeronautics and Space...
News Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
| 29 days ago
Looking like a giant white pencil gleaming in the midday sun, the 327-foot-tall rocket soared off Launch Pad 39B at 11:30 a.m., riding a huge column of flame and almost 3 million pounds of thrust. Two minutes later and 24 miles high, the first stage...