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 Jun 7 2006, 01:52 PM
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OK then, just because I think it's pretty:
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Jun 7 2006, 05:10 PM
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A Starchaser Nova.
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 7 2006, 06:42 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
 I didn't say it was hard
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Jun 7 2006, 07:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
This one shouldn't be too hard either:
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 7 2006, 07:46 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
J-1?
something Japanese anyway. They have such a pretty launch complex
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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 8 2006, 01:04 AM
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That's a Japenese H-2A.
The H rockets started out as licensed copies of the Boeing Delta. I think they are officially all Japanese now, but it sure looks just like a Delta-2 to me. :-) |
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Jun 8 2006, 05:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 8 2006, 03:04 AM)  That's a Japenese H-2A. Correct. Your turn to post a challenge
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 8 2006, 06:22 PM
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How about this - don't read the URL, just click on it!
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2006/Stude...on-June-8.m.jpg 
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 8 2006, 09:42 PM
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OK, name this launch vehicle:
[attachment=6150:attachment] [attachment=6151:attachment] [attachment=6152:attachment] |
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Jun 8 2006, 09:51 PM
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QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 8 2006, 11:42 PM) OK, name this launch vehicle: I guess it's a Tsiklon-2 -- Rakhir |
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Jun 8 2006, 10:22 PM
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I'm glad I'm not downwind of it... ...is that UDMH being vented? Nice stuff!
Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 8 2006, 10:51 PM
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You got it right, Rakhir. The Tsiklon-2 (Cyclone-2).
Bob, yes it is powered by UDMH (Nye-Simmetrichny Dimetil Gidrazin) and nitrogen tetroxide. The orange color is actually nitrogen dioxide, formed from the N2O4 (which is colorless). UDMH is a powerful reducing agent and ignites spontaneously when mixed with an oxydizing agent. Glushko and Yangel promoted this fuel mixture for ICBMs with rapid fueling and long readiness holding. Chemical starting is very smooth, compared to electric ignition of other fuels, which sometimes blows the engine apart. A "hard start" as they say. The Russians still like to start a rocket with UDMH/N2O4, even when LOX/Kerosine is the main fuel. Rakhir, your turn! |
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Jun 9 2006, 08:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 9 2006, 12:51 AM) Rakhir, your turn! This one should be easier than my previous one.
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Jun 9 2006, 08:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (Rakhir @ Jun 9 2006, 09:21 PM) This one should be easier than my previous one.
Black Arrow Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 9 2006, 09:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 9 2006, 10:52 PM) Black Arrow Bob Shaw Yes it's a Black Arrow, developped by the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Four flights : - 2 failures - 2 success (only the last one was orbital). The UK became the sixth nation to place a satellite into orbit (after the USSR, USA, France, Japan and China). The last flight took place in 71, two weeks before my birth
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