First Weld Made to New Spacecraft
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2011
- Construction has begun on the first new NASA orbit-bound, human spacecraft to be built in 20 years. Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have started welding together the first Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The craft is scheduled for a test flight in 2013, during which the unmanned vehicle will orbit the Earth several times. NASA's last spacecraft built to orbit humans was space shuttle Endeavour, which was completed in 1991.
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Looks like they used “friction stir welding”. Dope clip but yeah, get more shots of the actual work.
im happy you guys are working on a new system. kick ass!
The friction stir welder is such a marvelous machine
Nice to see NASA building spacecraft again, instead of just satellites and probes. Congrats, and we all look forward to seeing it on it's maiden voyage!
MARS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR!
@Dochirin Then why does the rotating tool look like a 2 flute high helix endmill, and furthermore, why the hell is there swarf?! Doesn't look like FSW to me.
Man, what I would give to be involved with that process in any way...to even sweep the metal filings - what an organization!
absolutely stunning machinery!!
That is an impressive welder!
@TheChrisJohnny They showed both prep. and weld. It is called friction stir welding. a smooth bit is spinning while being driven along and threw the joint, no fill material is used. Work piece must be extreamly secure to use this process because of the force required, but you cant beat the weld strength.
I wasn't born when the first space shuttle was launched. In fact I didn't even pay much attention to the program untill sts 134. Now I will be able to tell my children of the maiden voyage of this new type of space craft. I'm proud to be an American!
The first step in a giant leap. All over again. Can't wait.
Excellent video! The mystery of engineering looks to the future...
@GCMLAX33 that's cool! Looked up some video on it and I've never seen anything like it! I want to see it in person now!
@mallan4liberty I thought it was machining at first too, but I think it is a welding technique called 'Linear Friction Welding' (LFW) Which has much less structural and mechanical damage to the granulate of the material over traditional welding.
The beginning of a new era of space travel.
@mallan4liberty it is called friction stir welding. very cool stuff.
@Bosingr
the window is sunk in to the hull a bit. It's so the astronauts could look forward.
That design feature has been in use at least since Gemini.
@Dustycircuit More traditionally-known as "Friction Stir Welding" - the tool "blends the two metals together via friction instead of using a flame, electrical current, or Laser / Plasma.
Friction can be your best friend somtimes!
@mallan4liberty The video truely is about welding. it is a process called friction stir welding which looks a lot like machining. I am disappointed they didnt have a better angle to show it better.
what kind of welder is that?
@mallan4liberty : It´s a type of friction-welding.
@skyeye21
Yup, this is friction welding. I saw them run a machine like this down at Marshall Space Flight Center. It's some impressive technology.
@Zamboro intergalactic travel refers to travel between galaxies, not travel within a single galaxy. distances between galaxies are so incomprehensibly vast that travel between them would be unlikely without some kind of wormhole tech.
@illustriouschin But that's not far off from changing. A man named Jeff Greason (look up the TEDx video about him) demonstrates that we are very close to spacecraft that can be used in a similar fashion to aircraft. That is to say, multiple flights per day.
@TheLukeSchiltz
LOL...good point...(i got a bit excited about the idea but you put me back in place)
Not to be skeptical, but this seems more like milling than welding. Unless this is a type of welding I am not familiar with. Did I miss the welding part?
Sooooo spinning a drill bit is the new welding? I didn't see no arc.
How much to order one online?
This all looks obscenely expensive, those huge machines, the huge custom fixtures to weld together some forged and machined isogrids made of some outragous materal like 7068 aluminum and Meanwhile spaceX is has guys on a rented lift welding together stainless steel space cans outside with an off the shelf TIG welder. NASA did a great job getting space travel to happen, now they should focus on means of making it practical.
@greatestdirector friction stir process. Heat is generated from friction no fill material is used..
@ivanleo
Woah, good catch. I repeated his use of that word without stopping to realize what I was saying. Yes, interSTELLAR, rather than intergalactic. There should be enough variety in resources in our own solar system that there's never a practical need to leave it, though.
At that rythm, It'll be ready in 2020.
@youjerkass Reusable spacecraft are not actually reusable, they are extremely expensive to refurbish after each fligh, that is why. The space shuttle is the reason why we were limited to low-earth orbit for 30 years.
that robot looks like a spacecraft already xD
@GCMLAX33 Ahhh, I wondered why it was rotating. Thanks for the info. Google time!!
what's happening here in the video? what part is this? who designed it? why is it important this is being welded? Who are the people working here? the director? what inspired the design? What building are we in, or for that matter what state? This looks ;ike the human carrying capsule but there's no information in this video. It was interesting yeah, and cool to see the facility and a little how things are done, but there's like no information here
It is a process called ultrasonic friction welding, it allows for near seamless welds so in space where leaks are bad on spacecraft this is a huge advancement maybe. The craft is the Orion capsule, NASA's planned craft for manned missions. It is looking to be launched in the next few coming years actually for its first few test flights. Along with the other 2 crew capsules by SpaceX and Boeing. Boeing's capsule uses the same welding process as NASA. Hope this helped 2 years later XD hahaha. The facility I do not know, NASA has many assembly plant buildings they maintain in Alabama and California.
@MartianStories You do have a point there. I'll get back to you on that.
@AlpineLV
more like a shuttle pod. But I hear they're planning a purely space-born vessel for exploration. Google Nautilus-X.
@Zamboro That is true, but that's interstellar, not intergalactic. To get to the nearest galaxy, even at 1c, would take over a million years
I've got a mill just like that one! I wish...
@Bluedrake42 They meant that the last one to be built was 20 years ago, not that this one will be built in 20 years. It was oddly worded. I thought the same as you at first.
@Theropissed Well as a geologist that's been to a number of professional meetings discussing Mars and missions to it, there is quite a bit that humans can do that robots cannot. There is a serious mobility issue with rovers and the stationary labs such as Pheonix. It's been decided that a sedimentologist like myself will be on the first manned mission. The ability to move and view things from different angles rapidly and be on the ground is HUGE for geologists. Robots can't do it all.
im looking forward to new technology, and i think a new form of propulsion is needed in spacecraft cuz fuel is really inefficient.
@Tounushi I was not implying the craft is boring. they could have chosen better footage.
@4:26 And steering wheel already on place.
@Jace1283xmod Then we'd get to test their re-entry too
Sean Connary builds space ships?
@ArcLi7e
@ArcLi7e
We've had the capacity for intergalactic travel since the 1970s. Watch Freeman Dyson's TED talk about Project Orion, which his father worked on for the airforce. It was a massive bullet shaped vessel the diameter of a city block propelled by small nuclear bombs shot out the rear, through a small hole in the shock absorber plate and then remotely detonated one after the next. It's capable of .1 C, sufficient to reach the closest star in around 45 years.
Pimp my Ride!!
@illustriouschin ...You're kidding me, right? Do you think we would have jet liners if we didn't figure out how to use them multiple times without tearing them apart? Hell, the average aircraft has 10, 000 flights in its lifetime, with only repairs. The point is, we need to explore how to make these spacecraft reusable, and like the video shows, we're practically there. It's not 'on paper', it's in practice. Besides, 'gettin 'er dun' is related directly to spacecraft efficiency.
@greatestdirector
uses friction
What was that ? A drill ?
Whoops, i take that back. It is Friction Stir Welding, NOT Linear friction welding.
May I go?
@AlexandtheUniverse At this point that is only words on paper, you can't send human beings to the Moon, Mars, and Asteroid Belt on words. What is the most important thing here, reusing a spacecraft or gettin 'er dun?
@mallan4liberty It's a friction welder >_
Pop a few nacelles on that thing, add some photon torpedoes and a Vulcan scientist, and that thing would be perfect! No? Ok, just getting into space would be cool too.
@mariamole011 They don't know what it is. They have photos of it, but they haven't really figured it out yet. Google "Mars monolith." There's plenty online about it.
Yes, I've seen 2001 many times. It's my favorite film.
Mars has two moons, both of them are captured asteroids.
Mars is a fascinating world. It has the tallest mountain in the solar system, and the deepest canyon in solar system. You should find out more about it. It's a very impressive place.
@mallan4liberty it IS welding, you shouldn't speak about topics you don't understand. The technique they're using is a very complex and very advanced form of ultra-high quality welding called Friction Stir Welding. This method of welding can join two materials without melting them first, and thus the resulting union doesn't present areas of metal with altered characteristics, something very common in other more traditional welding methods.
RAWR!!!111 ^_^
@huffster777 Friction stir welding
renewal of an artificial atmosphere with oxygen, it is possible?
i wish i had a ufo.lol
@MartianStories Mars is worth fighting for? What about the moon.
@mallan4liberty indeed. very frustrating video, waiting for the welding to start. and waiting. grrr.
I say build about 2000 of these babies along with 1000 heavy launch vehicles and build a real space station capable doing some real work on a bigger ship.
they should put 1 billion in cash in a rocket and send it to the moon and say, if you can get there you can have it!
y did i quit aerospace engineering? :(
@Jace1283xmod It's cost more to get there, than the $1billion.
@eLLriDe420 sorry to burst your bubble, but intergalactic travel is likely never to happen. but this craft will give us the capability to go to mars.
@nrvrine427 whats your point
@ArcLi7e
Yes, I know. See my reply to ivanleo?
@modeltrainman12345 Uh, well, sure, I guess. Let me know as soon as they find water on the moon...
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@BLITZKRIEGRECORDS000
history in the making.
now don't go saying history is boring.
@mariamole011 I'd be very happy were that true. There are some strange things there, though. There is an extremely tall Monolithic tower there, on the surface of one of the moons of Mars. They have no idea what it is. That's probably why they are sending a space mission there first, before they even go to the surface. If we can find the money, there are amazing times ahead of us. If the country doesn't go bankrupt and cease to exist from the wars first...
@eLLriDe420 I don't think that's realistic in our lifetime or many generations to come, it would be awesome though.
I was rather expecting a guy in a visor getting his hands dirty :D #facepalm...
@eLLriDe420 A whole lot sooner if you do your best to contribute instead of simply sit and wait.
It's a wery "funny" weld ! No light from the weldingmashine?
@MartianStories For 200years? and 8 months to fly there and 8 back? no thx bb
My vote is for nuclear propulsion! Bring back NERVA!
@MartianStories Satellites and Probes (which can be the same thing) are not spacecraft? There's hardly anything Astronauts/Cosmonauts/Taikonauts can do that robotic spacecrafts can't do on Mars. Name one thing Humans can do of scientific value on Mars that robots can't.
@1Nekit1 "200 years?" Huh? Yeah, it takes half a year to get to Mars these days. It won't always. And if we never go because we are too scared and too lazy, then that will be our eulogy. Sad thing to have on the tombstone of a species:
"Here lies man. He had a lot of potential. He invented fire, the wheel, writing, could record his symphonies to be played back a thousand years later. Even walked the Moon. But Mars was too far. IPad and Afghanistan were much closer. RIP."
No thanks, Brah.
Who the hell could dislike this?! Flat-Earthers?
No Gundams?
I hope it's not as slow as the previous space craft.
It should definitely be much faster than the shuttles which were designed decades ago..
If that's not the case...NASA stale mate with space activities, and how we have to use russian rockets, makes me not want to go to college for anything space related.
So discouraging.
@Jace1283xmod google with the lunar x prize offer 30 million to the first private company who can send a robot to the moon
@legendsveil Nope you're not funny...
Boring