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Here's What the Guts of Four Famous Rockets Look Like During Launch
Take a look at how your space sausage is made.
BY JENNIFER LEMAN
hazegrayart's youtube video shows transparent rocket launchesHAZEGRAYART
A new video shows what different rocket launches would look like if the rockets were transparent.
The video shows NASA's Saturn V and SLS rockets, the Space Shuttle, and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
The clip also shows the different types of fuel that each rocket is propelled by.
A new video reveals what the launches of four famous spacecraft would look like if the rockets were transparent. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is mesmerizing.
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Youtuber Hazegrayart posted the video, which also includes audio from the four launches, to YouTube earlier this week. Hazegrayart has a number of other animated videos on their page. (This 52-year time lapse of Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the artist's page is super cool, too.)
From left to right, the video shows NASA's Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The video also shows the different types of propellant used in the rockets. Kerosene RP-1 is shown in red, liquid hydrogen is shown in orange (yellow), and liquid oxygen is shown in blue. Both the Space Shuttle and SLS have solid rocket boosters.
The Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket, 1969.
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NASA's 363-foot-tall Saturn V launch vehicle is the largest and most powerful rocket the agency has ever sent into space. Designed by Werner von Braun and developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the rocket ferried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and launched the Skylab space station.
The three-stage rocket weighed over 6 million pounds and could lift 130 tons—the equivalent of 10 school buses—into space. Saturn V's first stage included five F-1 engines that burned for 2.5 minutes and generated 7.7 million pounds of thrust. The first stage was powered by 203,400 gallons of kerosene fuel (red) and 318,000 gallons of liquid oxygen fuel (blue).
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Saturn V: An Origin Story
Saturn V's second stage, powered by five J-2 engines, was fueled by 80,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 260,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and burned for 6 minutes after the first stage was released. The third stage contained a single J-2 rocket that was powered by 19,339 gallons of liquid oxygen and 66,770 gallons of liquid hydrogen. It burned for about 2.5 minutes—enough to lift the vehicle from Earth's orbit and into translunar trajectory.
The iconic rocket flew its last mission in 1973.
The Space Shuttle
cape canaveral, fla an exhaust cloud builds at launch pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida as space shuttle discovery lifts off at 621 am edt april 5 to begin the sts 131 mission the seven member crew will deliver the multi purpose logistics module leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that will be transferred to the international space station's laboratories the crew also will switch out a gyroscope on the station’s truss, install a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieve a japanese experiment from the station’s exterior sts 131 is the 33rd shuttle mission to the station and the 131st shuttle mission overall for information on the sts 131 mission and crew, visit httpwwwnasagovmissionpagesshuttleshuttlemissionssts131indexhtml photo credit nasaben cooper
The space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-131, launches in April, 2010.
NASA
NASA's Space Shuttle, which consisted of a crew-carrying orbiter, an external tank, and two solid rocket boosters, was the world's first reusable spacecraft. NASA ordered a total of five Space Shuttle orbiters: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor. The 184-foot-long Space Shuttle was designed to carry seven passengers and could haul up to
The Space Shuttle's three RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters generated 7.8 million pounds of thrust and could hoist a maximum payload of 55,250 pounds into orbit. The Shuttle's orange external tank held tanks filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
After lifting a number of satellites into orbit, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and facilitating the construction of the International Space Station, NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. Both the Challenger and Columbia Shuttles and their crews were lost in accidents in 1989 and 2003, respectively. In total, NASA's Shuttles traveled 537,114,016 miles over the course of 134 flights.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center in 2019.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch vehicle is the only commercial launch vehicle in the video and the most powerful rocket currently in operation. The 229.6-foot-tall rocket weighs more than 3 million pounds and can haul a 140,660-pound payload to low-Earth orbit and a 37,040-pound payload to Mars.
The Falcon Heavy launch vehicle has two stages. The first stage consists of three boosters, each of which house nine of the company's Merlin engines fueled by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. In total, the first stage generates over 5 million pounds of thrust at sea level—roughly the equivalent of powering up 18 747 airplanes. Critically, all three of the first stage's boosters are reusable—a game-changing achievement in spaceflight.
The second stage is powered by a single Merlin engine that's fueled, like the first stage, by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. According to SpaceX, it has a 397-second burn time and can generate around 210,000 pounds of thrust.
Falcon Heavy first launched in February 2018, sending perhaps one of the strangest payloads ever—a Tesla Roadster and spaceman (not a real one)—into orbit. In total, the rocket has launched three times.
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)
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NASA’s SLS rocket at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana
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NASA's Space Launch System consists of a 212-foot-tall core stage with four recycled RS-25 engines powered by a 537,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank and a 196,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank. The core stage of the first SLS configuration, Block 1, can haul about 209,439 pounds into low-Earth orbit and over 57,320 pounds to the lunar surface.
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Each of the SLS's two polybutadiene acrylonitrile-powered solid rocket boosters can generate about 3.6 million pounds of thrust, bringing the total thrust generated by the launch vehicle to about 8.8 million pounds.
The SLS, which has faced costly delays, is one of the key components of NASA's Artemis program. Along with the Human Landing System and the Orion capsule, the rocket will send the next crop of astronauts to the moon.
Take a look at how your space sausage is made.
BY JENNIFER LEMAN
hazegrayart's youtube video shows transparent rocket launchesHAZEGRAYART
A new video shows what different rocket launches would look like if the rockets were transparent.
The video shows NASA's Saturn V and SLS rockets, the Space Shuttle, and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
The clip also shows the different types of fuel that each rocket is propelled by.
A new video reveals what the launches of four famous spacecraft would look like if the rockets were transparent. Seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak, is mesmerizing.
Youtuber Hazegrayart posted the video, which also includes audio from the four launches, to YouTube earlier this week. Hazegrayart has a number of other animated videos on their page. (This 52-year time lapse of Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the artist's page is super cool, too.)
From left to right, the video shows NASA's Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The video also shows the different types of propellant used in the rockets. Kerosene RP-1 is shown in red, liquid hydrogen is shown in orange (yellow), and liquid oxygen is shown in blue. Both the Space Shuttle and SLS have solid rocket boosters.
The Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket, 1969.
SCIENCE & SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARYGETTY IMAGES
NASA's 363-foot-tall Saturn V launch vehicle is the largest and most powerful rocket the agency has ever sent into space. Designed by Werner von Braun and developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the rocket ferried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and launched the Skylab space station.
The three-stage rocket weighed over 6 million pounds and could lift 130 tons—the equivalent of 10 school buses—into space. Saturn V's first stage included five F-1 engines that burned for 2.5 minutes and generated 7.7 million pounds of thrust. The first stage was powered by 203,400 gallons of kerosene fuel (red) and 318,000 gallons of liquid oxygen fuel (blue).
READ THIS: THE TALE OF AMERICA'S MOON ROCKET
Saturn V: An Origin Story
Saturn V's second stage, powered by five J-2 engines, was fueled by 80,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 260,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and burned for 6 minutes after the first stage was released. The third stage contained a single J-2 rocket that was powered by 19,339 gallons of liquid oxygen and 66,770 gallons of liquid hydrogen. It burned for about 2.5 minutes—enough to lift the vehicle from Earth's orbit and into translunar trajectory.
The iconic rocket flew its last mission in 1973.
cape canaveral, fla an exhaust cloud builds at launch pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida as space shuttle discovery lifts off at 621 am edt april 5 to begin the sts 131 mission the seven member crew will deliver the multi purpose logistics module leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that will be transferred to the international space station's laboratories the crew also will switch out a gyroscope on the station’s truss, install a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieve a japanese experiment from the station’s exterior sts 131 is the 33rd shuttle mission to the station and the 131st shuttle mission overall for information on the sts 131 mission and crew, visit httpwwwnasagovmissionpagesshuttleshuttlemissionssts131indexhtml photo credit nasaben cooper
The space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-131, launches in April, 2010.
NASA
NASA's Space Shuttle, which consisted of a crew-carrying orbiter, an external tank, and two solid rocket boosters, was the world's first reusable spacecraft. NASA ordered a total of five Space Shuttle orbiters: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor. The 184-foot-long Space Shuttle was designed to carry seven passengers and could haul up to
The Space Shuttle's three RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters generated 7.8 million pounds of thrust and could hoist a maximum payload of 55,250 pounds into orbit. The Shuttle's orange external tank held tanks filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
After lifting a number of satellites into orbit, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and facilitating the construction of the International Space Station, NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. Both the Challenger and Columbia Shuttles and their crews were lost in accidents in 1989 and 2003, respectively. In total, NASA's Shuttles traveled 537,114,016 miles over the course of 134 flights.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center in 2019.
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The Falcon Heavy launch vehicle has two stages. The first stage consists of three boosters, each of which house nine of the company's Merlin engines fueled by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. In total, the first stage generates over 5 million pounds of thrust at sea level—roughly the equivalent of powering up 18 747 airplanes. Critically, all three of the first stage's boosters are reusable—a game-changing achievement in spaceflight.
The second stage is powered by a single Merlin engine that's fueled, like the first stage, by a mixture of kerosene RP-1 and liquid oxygen. According to SpaceX, it has a 397-second burn time and can generate around 210,000 pounds of thrust.
Falcon Heavy first launched in February 2018, sending perhaps one of the strangest payloads ever—a Tesla Roadster and spaceman (not a real one)—into orbit. In total, the rocket has launched three times.
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NASA’s SLS rocket at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana
JUDE GUIDRYGETTY IMAGES
NASA's Space Launch System consists of a 212-foot-tall core stage with four recycled RS-25 engines powered by a 537,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank and a 196,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank. The core stage of the first SLS configuration, Block 1, can haul about 209,439 pounds into low-Earth orbit and over 57,320 pounds to the lunar surface.
RELATED STORY
NASA's Comically Big Moon Rocket Is Coming Along
Each of the SLS's two polybutadiene acrylonitrile-powered solid rocket boosters can generate about 3.6 million pounds of thrust, bringing the total thrust generated by the launch vehicle to about 8.8 million pounds.
The SLS, which has faced costly delays, is one of the key components of NASA's Artemis program. Along with the Human Landing System and the Orion capsule, the rocket will send the next crop of astronauts to the moon.