Failure is an option
We spent the last weekend at Balls 29, a big experimental rocket launch event in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada - the same place where Burning Man takes place. A big rocket is launched every few minutes.
The majority of the rockets are experimental, people often mix their own solid propellant. With this, about 1/3 of the launches fail, sometimes spectacularly. For safety, the bigger the motor, the farther away the launch. Big rockets ascend up to 200,000 feet and more, which is 6 times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial aircraft. The fastest rockets reach Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound, 3800 MPH, 6100 km/h), and pull up to 80 g.
This launchpad is 2000 feet away from the rocket camp. The rocket CATOed, rocketeer speak of catastrophic take-off. One frequent point of failure is the nozzle of the motor. It looks like it blew out, you can see the ring about half way down. If you zoom in you can see grains of solid AP (ammonium perchlorate) fuel scatter all around.
I processed a balanced and a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/8.0, 210 mm, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC7080_hdr1bal1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Failure is an option
We spent the last weekend at Balls 29, a big experimental rocket launch event in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada - the same place where Burning Man takes place. A big rocket is launched every few minutes.
The majority of the rockets are experimental, people often mix their own solid propellant. With this, about 1/3 of the launches fail, sometimes spectacularly. For safety, the bigger the motor, the farther away the launch. Big rockets ascend up to 200,000 feet and more, which is 6 times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial aircraft. The fastest rockets reach Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound, 3800 MPH, 6100 km/h), and pull up to 80 g.
This launchpad is 2000 feet away from the rocket camp. The rocket CATOed, rocketeer speak of catastrophic take-off. One frequent point of failure is the nozzle of the motor. It looks like it blew out, you can see the ring about half way down. If you zoom in you can see grains of solid AP (ammonium perchlorate) fuel scatter all around.
I processed a balanced and a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/8.0, 210 mm, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC7080_hdr1bal1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography