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  • @theastronerd4090
    @theastronerd4090 Před 4 lety +67

    always loved the Atlas family
    such beautiful rockets

    • @orbitalair2103
      @orbitalair2103 Před 4 lety

      0.060 inch stainless steel skin, overlap welded together. Thats all it was, pressurized like a balloon, it had lots of strength and low weight.

    • @gunnykido7213
      @gunnykido7213 Před 3 lety +2

      @@orbitalair2103 Doesn't make them any less beautiful, does it?

  • @FrankyOs23
    @FrankyOs23 Před 4 lety +35

    They are amazing, Thanks ULA and Thanks Tory

  • @orbitalair2103
    @orbitalair2103 Před 4 lety +15

    I designed and tested 1/4scale Castor IVA srbs to get acoustic and pressure data for the blast deflectors, cause back in 91 the launch pads were already built(the original atlas launchers) and they needed to get deflectors in and around existing structures. I used mk36 cases to make motors. This was done at Thiokol Hunstville (gone now).

  • @3000gtwelder
    @3000gtwelder Před 4 lety +66

    Amazing how a missile that was developed to protect us from the Russians, came to have Russian built engines on it lol.

    • @TGentong
      @TGentong Před 3 lety +1

      Magic Smoke FPV lel

    • @Nithincr1
      @Nithincr1 Před 2 lety +3

      😂 👍🏻 RD 180 Cool Engine!

    • @dougball328
      @dougball328 Před 2 dny

      When I was in Russia in the early '90s I visited Tsagi. Got to tour the supersonic wind tunnel. The entire tunnel in underground. They built it underground to protect it from the Atlas ICBM. Ironically, in the test section, was an Atlas IIAS. The rocket that caused them to bury the tunnel was now a paying, commercial customer.

  • @pseudotasuki
    @pseudotasuki Před 4 lety +29

    Heck yeah, balloon tanks! Amazingly, it's still the closest we've come to SSTO.
    The "bold move" mentioned at 5:38 was driven by the need to prevent engineers from emigrating from the recently-collapsed USSR.

  • @weekiely1233
    @weekiely1233 Před 2 lety +4

    The first Atlas V launch happened a few days after I was born. It was the very first vehicle to leave Earth whilst I was a part of it.
    It holds a very special place in my heart

  • @ericeckstein4579
    @ericeckstein4579 Před 4 lety +16

    I take issue with the line "In a departure from conventional thinking, the Atlas V development replaced the [pressure stabilized] tank with a structurally stable, common core booster."
    This line could only have been thought up by a misinformed PR team, as the pressure-stabilized tank, in fact, was the departure from conventional thinking, and not the other way around.
    The Atlas V tank is not a departure from conventional thinking, but rather a return to it. I don't claim to judge which approach is better, but rather to point out that one shouldn't be fooled by the PR-speak in this video.

    • @orbitalair2103
      @orbitalair2103 Před 4 lety +2

      Its just easier to add more inert weight. Easier ground handling, less issues with punctures. They go with what they know, ULA, if they are some of the same people I worked with decades, will tell its all a KNOWN science, rockets that is.

    • @fcurran1
      @fcurran1 Před 3 lety

      Lop

    • @fcurran1
      @fcurran1 Před 3 lety

      Rocket away.

  • @EinChris75
    @EinChris75 Před 4 lety +36

    Not a single word, that the RD-180 is... from an external supplier?

    • @MrAzazel666
      @MrAzazel666 Před 4 lety +7

      Thankfully they're switching to the BE-4 for the Vulcan. So we can finally stop relying on the Russians.

    • @lucaxdls
      @lucaxdls Před 4 lety +15

      Really ironic that a vehicle which intentional purpose was to wipe out russians later took of from ground with the help of russian engines haha

    • @jmstudios457
      @jmstudios457 Před 3 lety +1

      It's manufactured by NPO Energomash, derived from the RD-170 on the Energia rocket

    • @renew1572
      @renew1572 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lucaxdls yes it was to appease the Russians to calm down tensions

    • @Nithincr1
      @Nithincr1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jmstudios457 Energiya is world's powerful rocket after Saturn V. RD 170 👌🏻

  •  Před 4 lety +4

    Beautiful video.

  • @Truck_Company_84
    @Truck_Company_84 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Nothing will beat the Atlas-Centaur D. The SM-65 will always be my favorite missile and space launch vehicle! I’m currently remaking them in Juno: Origins.

  • @Nithincr1
    @Nithincr1 Před 3 lety +3

    My favorite launch vehicle number 2
    Atlas V 500 series!

    • @Nithincr1
      @Nithincr1 Před 2 lety

      Number 1
      *Titan 3E , Titan IVB Centaur* ❤️

  • @starcatcherksp1517
    @starcatcherksp1517 Před 3 lety +4

    Fun fact: 9 yo kids that are watching doesn't know the RD 180 has 2 nozzles, came up thinking the core stage was powered with 2 engines
    (I laughed so hard when the narrator says "vital for our nation" bcuz I'm just a Vietnamese came watching this)

  • @SG71_
    @SG71_ Před 4 lety +9

    Atlas ❤

  • @lifesentencesuxsodoesplayz7861

    Its too bad the rd-180 engine had to be soviet technology. Its a beast of an engine!
    1 engine....2 nozzles or engine bells

    • @starcatcherksp1517
      @starcatcherksp1517 Před 2 lety

      The Soviets are the only ones creating multiple-combustion chamber engines.

  • @buster4713
    @buster4713 Před 9 měsíci

    I still to this day remember as a kid growing up in Cheyenne Wyoming in the 50's and 60's when the Atlas ICBM"S rolled through Cheyenne on their way to Silos west of town. They came through town on trailers, covered with just a large tarp. Going to silo sites west along old highway 30, now interstate 80 not too many miles west of Cheyenne. Those were the days when my parents built a house out northeast of town, complete with a 12 x 12 foot "bomb shelter" under concrete and 3 feet of earth. The days of Sputnik really scared the crap out of most Americans in the 50's. The Atlas Rocket has such a very long history to this day, although not still the same rocket but improved and still named "Atlas",,,

  • @javiervazquez2815
    @javiervazquez2815 Před 4 lety +6

    Mighty Atlas 🔥💪🏻😍

  • @alexandermoore5541
    @alexandermoore5541 Před 4 lety +10

    So Atlas went from a pressure stabilized ICBM used against the Soviets to a structural rocket using Soviet engines. Why is it still called Atlas?

    • @jmstudios457
      @jmstudios457 Před 3 lety +5

      kinda what happened to the delta rockets. It evolved so much it's practically an entirely different machine

    • @TheMrPeteChannel
      @TheMrPeteChannel Před 3 lety +2

      The tank diameter was the same. The new aluminum tank could still be made on the same machinery.

    • @dougball328
      @dougball328 Před 2 dny

      @@jmstudios457 Yes, but the Delta actually started out as the Thor.

    • @jmstudios457
      @jmstudios457 Před 2 dny

      Delta was always passed through the upper stage. So you had the Thor-Delta, which eventually just became Delta, and they just kept stretching and strengthening the Thor. Eventually the old Delta stage got replaced with the DCSS with Delta III, and Thor got completely replaced with the CBC on Delta IV.

  • @nickcarriero8274
    @nickcarriero8274 Před 4 lety +5

    Nice job ULA! Keep innovating!

  • @danielalejandroochoaalvare590

    The atlas-centaur is a great rocket, i missed it. Next rocket: Atlas VI.

    • @starcatcherksp1517
      @starcatcherksp1517 Před 3 lety +3

      Nah bud, it’s VULCAN now, turning to Methane fuel.

    • @Delta-V-Heavy
      @Delta-V-Heavy Před rokem +1

      @@starcatcherksp1517 But at least the Centaur name will live on, in Vulcan's upper stage.

  • @geomodelrailroader
    @geomodelrailroader Před 4 lety +3

    The Mighty ATLAS has done it again it placed the X37 into space now to launch Starliner.

  • @lordcraycray2921
    @lordcraycray2921 Před 4 lety +2

    Great video. 10/10.

  • @gokulnathg5801
    @gokulnathg5801 Před 3 lety +2

    Most beautiful powerful rocket ever,,, RD 180👍❤️🔥🔥

    • @oren2000
      @oren2000 Před 3 lety +1

      RD-180 is an engine.

  • @gardencornrobber
    @gardencornrobber Před 8 měsíci +1

    We never walked on the moon! Someone blew the whistle.

  • @hipotures
    @hipotures Před 4 lety +3

    Just reading S.Baxter's Voyage :)

  • @mariasirona1622
    @mariasirona1622 Před rokem

    Mariner 4 footage is used when talking about Mariner 2...

  • @troykirkland4132
    @troykirkland4132 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow

  • @Espzn
    @Espzn Před 4 měsíci

    Rip atlas and delta

  • @beachboardfan9544
    @beachboardfan9544 Před 4 lety +1

    How are those hydraulic clamps able to move so damn fast?

  • @miltonzhang947
    @miltonzhang947 Před 4 lety

    Plz don't delete the old video

  • @stevengaming3689
    @stevengaming3689 Před 3 lety +1

    Atlas launched again!

  • @NepNepYT
    @NepNepYT Před 3 lety

    4:32 - 4:37 i just spit out my coffee

  • @mickkeyful
    @mickkeyful Před 4 lety +3

    RD-180 is best of rocket engine.

    • @jmstudios457
      @jmstudios457 Před 4 lety +6

      It is a very good engine.

    • @Nithincr1
      @Nithincr1 Před 3 lety +2

      Russian Rocket Engine 🔥🇷🇺

    • @gokulnathg5801
      @gokulnathg5801 Před 3 lety +1

      USSR 👍💝

    • @jeremiahpurba3882
      @jeremiahpurba3882 Před 2 lety

      @SFS NASA Those are gas generator open-cycle engines, the RD-180 is a closed-cycle engine, which is more efficient.

  • @williamduffy1227
    @williamduffy1227 Před rokem

    If the Executives at ULA/ Boeing/ & Lockheed hadn't been so cheap and greedy, they would have funded building RD-180's in the USA 20 years ago.

  • @StarshipFairing
    @StarshipFairing Před 4 lety +2

    Go ULA

  • @SailingStarCatcher
    @SailingStarCatcher Před 4 lety +1

    RD-180 engines were supposed to be phased out, no?

    • @AmbientMorality
      @AmbientMorality Před 4 lety +6

      will be with Vulcan. Atlas V is too close to retirement

    • @Ethan_Frost
      @Ethan_Frost Před 4 lety

      Appable
      Yeah, Vulcan will use BE-4 engines, from Blue Origin. Vulcan set first flight in 2021

    • @TheMrPeteChannel
      @TheMrPeteChannel Před 3 lety

      Plans were made to make a copy of the RD-180 in American factories if Papa Putin decided to cut off the engine supply. It almost happened because of the Crimia invasion.

    • @jeremiahpurba3882
      @jeremiahpurba3882 Před 2 lety

      @@TheMrPeteChannel It has happened now. And no, you can't just copy the RD-180, the closed-cycle engine contains technology and alloys that aren't easy to copy.

  • @AloysiusDente
    @AloysiusDente Před 4 lety +6

    Pretty patriotic video considering the RD-180 is Russian lol

  • @gokulnathg5801
    @gokulnathg5801 Před 3 lety +1

    RD-180 👍💪💪💪💪💪 USSR

  • @psychos1s.
    @psychos1s. Před 3 lety +1

    Why ULA aren't ambitious like SpaceX, launching satellite is just normal 🤷‍♂️

    • @dummyjoe7895
      @dummyjoe7895 Před 3 lety +4

      ULA does more high Techicnal orbits that SpaceX can’t, like direct to GTO SpaceX can’t do that. Also with high energy orbits, IE mars and other solar system missions.

    • @constellation-sj8xn
      @constellation-sj8xn Před 3 lety +1

      But spacex is launching satellites too in lower orbits

    • @dummyjoe7895
      @dummyjoe7895 Před 3 lety +1

      @@constellation-sj8xn yes SpaceX dominates LEO orbits, but anywhere else ULA can do better.

    • @emman.5995
      @emman.5995 Před 2 lety +2

      Well SpaceX hasn't launched a single rover.

    • @starcatcherksp1517
      @starcatcherksp1517 Před 2 lety

      Wrong. The falcon 9 gets more payload to Mars than the Atlas V

  • @EaglesFan202
    @EaglesFan202 Před 3 lety

    What no atlas 4 ?