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V-2 no. 3 being prepared for its 10 May 1946 launch from Launch Complex 33, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). The nominal flight was the first to reach space from WSMR.
Additional photos at the following impressive website:
“ROCKET PRIMED FOR SPACE TRIP, WHITE SANDS, N.M. -- This is the rocket launching platform and V-2 rocket, without war head, in position for firing at Army Ordnance Proving Ground. Space trip of the projectile will take place early next month.”
Although brief, I think it’s wonderful reading that provides a feel of/for the time.
7" x 9".
And actually, it’s a rarely seen view of a V-2, in this instance, no. 3 I think, on the 100K Static Test Stand, also rarely imaged, at WSMR. Some excellent information regarding it:
www.wsmr-history.org/HandsAcrossHistory-08-09.pdf
Both above credit: White Sands Missile Range Museum website
If indeed V-2 no. 3, the “projectile” completed a nominal flight on May 10, 1946, during which the “space trip” consisted of ascending to 112.6 miles. And, it was indeed the first launch of anything from White Sands to technically, reach the boundary of space, so pretty historic.
Post WW II "war head" = nose cone.
Enough about kittens — back to rockets, and what a beauty!
Beagle IV construction is nearing completion, and I like the anodized metal pre-painting. She looks just like the 3D sim from my earlier post. For a sense of scale, the four Q motors have 16x the thrust of a cruise missile booster.
Tom just got the FAA Class 3 waiver approved. So she's ready to break Mach 4 this summer and sample the biome of space!
What lives up there? It’s beyond the reach of bursting balloons, and prior rockets have not stopped to sample the thermosphere en route to orbit.
Freeman Dyson posits that life should exist on comets and asteroids. Venter believes that life on Earth did not evolve from scratch in the oceans. Most of that water came from comets, which could easily have carried genetic seeds or at least chemical precursors.
"Panspermia is how life is spread throughout the universe and we are contributing to it from earth by launching billions of microbes into space." (Craig Venter on EDGE)
“Recent findings suggest there could have been substantial biological exchange between the planets. Every year, researchers calculate, two tons of Martian material rain down on Earth” (TIME)
Mach 2.8, 1100 pounds, 19 ft. tall on an 60 ft. tower. Biological sampling payload to see what microbes live up above the stratosphere, beyond the reach of balloons, at the edge of space...
The upper stage is a P-motor, with 2x the thrust of a cruise missile booster. The booster stage has three of those P-motors in a cluster.
Here’s the new Sony back story video
The design goal with this launch was to reach 150K ft. and then 400K ft. with Q motors. Project photo history
Three P-motors light up the playa on flight two, with Black Rock in the distance.
Details best viewed enormous.
The Sony Rocket Project video can be seen at the bottom of the RocketMavericks site.
Shoots telephoto HD video at 2,700 frames per second. (specs)
Four guys sat in a tent all day recording continuously to a hard drive. Once the flight was over, they stopped the recording. The drive is a temporary storage buffer, so no unanticipated anomalies would escape recording. =)
Here is a video compilation of the Clotho research launch, and the slo-mo footage from this camera.
Only 2 of the 3 booster motors lit on the first flight, and so she arced over from the thrust asymmetry to her doom… Staging and parachute deployment do not work when going 1000 MPH horizontally overhead….
Only loosely related, I also posted a short night launch video medley of the antics that night…
Erik, Tom and I took some photos for the RocketMavericks’ Clotho Project today… scaling a hobby to civilian space exploration.
Each of the four blue tubes is an 8-foot tall Q motor, just like the one I got for Xmas (photo). Each of them has about 4x the thrust of a cruise missile booster.
The rocket should roar past Mach 4 on a suborbital flight into space.
Then it gets interesting. Here’s an introduction to the astrobiology payload from the Clotho rocketpedia page:
“For millennia we have explored the biodiversity of life on earth, from the bottom of the oceans to the tropical rainforests. But what happens when we leave the surface of the earth? Darwin noted algae in dust, Pasteur started the quest, and The Clotho Project will turn it into a research program sampling higher than ever before and using cutting edge aerospace technology and biological techniques to answer one of the fundamental questions in biology today:
How far off the earth's surface does life exist, and what lives there?”
“A German V-2 rocket rests on a trailer beside a launching platform at the White Sands, N.M., ordnance proving ground in preparation for a stationary test prior to the actual firing of the missile, scheduled for May 8.”
Army Signal Corps photo dated 4/11/46.
7.375" x 9".
From Apollo to RocketMavericks Civilian Aerospace.
Tom and Rob came by with the latest flight avionics which we will be testing this summer. Those are the sections in blue – with RF transmission of GPS and remote pad operations (so rocket activation and setup can all be done wirelessly from a safe distance).
RocketMavericks' new website just launched (with some of my photos and video, and some professional stuff too =)
In contrast to the multi-GB SD card in each flight computer, the white cube in the background is a 114 kB of core memory from Apollo. Those cores still contain a portion of the Saturn V flight program. (more info)
It's going to be a crazy summer. Several hundred pounds of propellant mixed. 3 airframes with 4 engines each, ready to go Mach 3... to sample the biome of the stratosphere and beyond.
On this map¹, each pixel (p) corresponds to actual (⁓6.2E3 m)² @φ0λ0; R ≅ 0.06° @0φ°. Cfr. notes² over the above image.
ŒV⌆♁ ⌖N0E0A∞ φ10λ10 1:24,027,658 (1√p φ° = 1/96" ≅ 6.2E3 m)
Apparent c @ scale ≅ 12.477 mps; 1 LD ≅ 16 m; 1 LY ≅ 1.024 LD.
vₒʀ♁2.978E4vₑ♁1.119E4vᵣ♁ᴇǫ4.651E2
M5.972E24V1.083E15ρ5.514E03r6.378E06S5.101E11 ♁
M5.135E18V1.400E12ρ1.225E00r1.000E06S1.257E11 A♁
M1.386E21V1.386E06ρ1.000E03r3.620E05S1.647E09 H₂O♁
NOTES
1. L.H. Rohwedder 2006: Transversal ŒV⌆♁ (original image).
2. Map scale ≅ 1:24,027,658. Lφ° = (φ°πR)/180°; R = Rₙ₌ₑ = (Rₙ+Rₑ)/2 ≅ 6.371E6 m; 10 Lφ° = 178√p ≅ ±1.112E6 m; ±1√p φ° ≅ ±2.6E-4 m ≅ ±6.2E3 m; -90°≤φ°≤90°; -180°≤λ°≤180°. Lλ° = (λ°πRₙcosφ°){180°[1-(Rₙ²-Rₑ²)Rₙ⁻²sin²φ°]½}⁻¹; 10 Lλ° @ 0 φ° ≅ 1.106E6 m; ±1√p λ° @0φ° ≅ 6.2E3 m; -90°≤φ°≤90°; -180°≤λ°≤180°.
Fucking N48.067E12.863G4.670E2
Geographic North Pole (⏁) N90.000E0.000G0.000E0
Magnetic N Pole (not shown) N86.494E162.867G0.000E0
Geomagnetic N Pole N80.700E-72.700G1.490E3
Arctic Circle ∩ Prime Meridian N66.567E0.000G0.000E0
Tropic of Cancer ∩ Prime Meridian N23.436E0.000G3.330E2
Null Island (⌖) N0.000E0.000G0.000E0
Tropic of Capricorn ∩ Prime Meridian N-23.436E0.000G0.000E0
Magnetic S Pole (not shown) N-64.081E135.866G0.000E0
Antarctic Circle ∩ Prime Meridian N-66.567E0.000G0.000E0
Geomagnetic S Pole (not shown) N-80.700E107.300G3.392E3
Geographic South Pole (⏂) N-90.000E0.000G2.835E3
Dead Sea N31.500E35.500G-4.305E2
Everest N27.988E86.925G8.848E3
Veryovkina cave N43.416E40.356G-2.212E3
Kilimanjaro N-3.076E37.353G5.895E3
Lake Victoria N-1.000E33.000G1.134E3
Litke Deep N82.400E19.517G-5.449E3
Meteor Deep N-55.419E-26.405G-8.278E3
Milwaukee Deep N19.836E-66.754G-8.383E3
Calypso Deep N36.567E21.133G-5.109E3
Chimborazo N-1.469E-78.818G6.263E3
Huascarán N-9.122E-77.604G6.768E3
Cape Agulhas N-34.833E20.000G0
Cape of Good Hope N-34.357E18.474G0
Cape Barrow (not shown) N68.017E-110.133G0
Cape Leeuwin (not shown) N-34.374E115.136G0
West Cape (not shown) N-45.906E166.428G0
East Cape (not shown) N-37.689E178.548G0
South Point (not shown) N-39.136E146.375G0
Sunda Trench (not shown) N-10.317E109.967G-7.290E3
Horizon Deep (not shown) N-23.450E175.233G-10.832E3
Challenger Deep (not shown) N11.373E142.592G-11.009E3
Denman Glacier (not shown) N-66.750E99.500G-3.500E3
Africa (54 ss): 2A4B8CD4E6GK3L7M3NR8S3TU2Z
Central America (7 ss): BiG SHiNy CuP
Continental South America (13 ss): ABBCCEGGPPSUV
Insulindia (17 ss): ISBMTLVCMSBIPCMTT
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O→ERP→ŒVP · geomatics · season · weather · antipodes · ⊕X pts
Tom and the gang tested the P.Ref-1 airframe on a home-brew O5800 motor this weekend.
Here you see the GPS overlay on Google Earth for our launch site in the Black Rock Desert.
There is an interesting GPS artifact during the supersonic climb. GPS works off of relative timing differences in signal transmission times to satellites with known positions. If you are going fast enough, the Doppler shift in those timing signals fools the system. Although it maintains GPS lock, the incoming timing signals are distorted by supersonic flight. This is why the z-dimension seems to be low for quite a while, but as soon as the rocket slows down, the inputs are correct, and the rocket position snaps into place, in this case 27,100 ft. as the rocket arcs over at apogee and deploys the first parachute.
Then the rocket comes back by drogue parachute drifting off to the right. Closer to the ground, the main deploys, and the slope of return lengthens in the prevailing wind.
I am looking forward to the big Sony and Clotho Project flights in July… it will ultimately fly on 16x as much motor — three Q’s staging to a Q, with four HD cams on board!
There was a kiddie pool full of water below the rocket to help diffuse the sonic blast.
That’s a 1,100 pound rocket with 4 P motors and 4 HD cams on board (had the third motor lit, we hoped to simultaneously film Boston and Hawaii).
But… my post-launch photo sequence is below.
Given the challenge of the sponsors of the RocketMavericks project to fly more computational power than Apollo, Tom and Dick needed to fit the latest Sony laptop into a cylindrical airframe. And there it is, disemboweled but happily cranking in the center of the video bay.
To the right are four HD cameras at 90° offsets, so a Matrix-like reconstruction can be made after the fact to remove the effects of rocket spin. The camera recording electronics are on the far left. The “laptop” will transmit a sub-sample back to the ground station… just in case we don’t have a perfect flight.
Videorocketry is one of my favorite things, so I can’t wait to see what this captures. I have some simple HD cams planned for the same launch event. Maybe I can be the pace car, as the Beagle IV screams up my tailpipe at Mach 4.
Dick has built three of these rockets...
The homeowners association does not know what to make of this...
I was working with my son on his rocket design tonight, grooving on the nomex-honeycomb fins and aluminum ogive boat tail…
Then I get this photo from across the bay, a budding arsenal of two-stage clusters that will break Mach 3.
A joyful sight!
This is very hard to pull off in supersonic flight at high altitudes where the air is thin.
Three graphite/phenolic hybrid nozzles for the P-motors, each of which will provide 2x the thrust of a cruise missile booster.
the upper stage motor had an insulator failure and the hot gases burned right through the aluminum sidewall. That put the upper stage into a sudden corkscrew four seconds after motor ignition.
This is the sixth photo for my new project, 100 Words, which is based on the list of 100 words from David Clark's book, Photography in 100 words. The word is: Atmosphere.
It always amazes me how little atmosphere we have. The Karman Line marks the line between us and outer space. It is only 100km above the surface of the earth. That's the distance between Bristol and Winchester. That's nothing. The Ozone layer is only 20km above us - if you could walk vertically, you could reach it in an afternoon. This is all we have to protect us from the certain death that is space. We'd probably better look after it.
Next word: Audacity
As part of my final, I had to create a one-page ad for Virgin Galactic's new suborbital space vehicle. While the vehicle itself doesn't travel out into space, I wanted to convey the feeling of touching space. We didn't have much imagery to work with, but I found a nice image of the SS2 vehicle that worked nicely.
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