NASA test-fires SLS rocket engine in Mississippi

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  • čas přidán 5. 08. 2021
  • An RS-25 rocket engine was test-fired at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Aug. 5, 2021.
    Credit: NASA Stennis Space Center
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Komentáře • 192

  • @BrianMillerCEO
    @BrianMillerCEO Před 2 lety +20

    Would be cool to see a thermal camera on the engine and nozzle.

  • @GarageSupra
    @GarageSupra Před 2 lety +28

    so rad, this thing litterraly makes clouds. Also incredible is the fuel goes. from freezing cold to unbelievably hot in microseconds to create thrust. Chemistry bois

    • @gSalTX
      @gSalTX Před 2 lety

      I used to work at Stennis when they were testing the shuttle main engines. Those clouds would rain at the building where I worked

  • @UncleKennysPlace
    @UncleKennysPlace Před 2 lety +13

    Meanwhile, SpaceX did a test stack on the largest rocket ever made.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +6

      And what do you want to tell us? That Rocket-Jesus can now put two Lego bricks together? Every two year old child can do that. Maybe you noticed that this video isn't about Rocket-Jesus and his stupid fanboys.

    • @RajdeepDatta032
      @RajdeepDatta032 Před 2 lety +7

      @@ukk9031 Maybe u are stupid ignoring him. LOL.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      @@RajdeepDatta032 I think there are more stupid ones who believe him . . . but you’re not one of them, then calling you a stupid would be an insult to all really stupids . . .

    • @RajdeepDatta032
      @RajdeepDatta032 Před 2 lety +4

      @@ukk9031 Yeah, there are stupids who don't believe him despite his success. 😂💩 It's really hard for you to be butthurt.

    • @awoodcoc
      @awoodcoc Před 2 lety +2

      @@ukk9031 i agree with you 100%. You know the guy was unhinged when he started calling a diver in Thailand a pedophile because they didn’t want his “help”.

  • @RushworthRob
    @RushworthRob Před 2 lety +8

    I guess those locking pins will be safe to go to Mars now... tested!

  • @huntera123
    @huntera123 Před 2 lety +3

    So awesome. The Stennis facility has served NASA and America really well.

    • @andrewjensen8189
      @andrewjensen8189 Před 2 lety

      Not as well as SpaceX has in the last few years alone...

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +2

      @@andrewjensen8189 If NASA hadn't saved SpaceX a few years ago, Rocket-Jesus would just pick his nose today . . .

    • @andrewjensen8189
      @andrewjensen8189 Před 2 lety

      @@ukk9031 If by "save" you mean provide a lifeline, ergo an injection of billions of dollars of contracts and general funding, then I guess you could say that NASA saved them, but you could just as easily say that the US Treasury saved them since that's where the funds are coming from anyways. Regardless, putting who gave who "bailout" money aside, SpaceX's engineers, Elon and their organizational prowess is what got SpaceX where they are today, not the money

  • @Rotatinhatin
    @Rotatinhatin Před 2 lety +4

    The shit humans can create when they come together…🙌🏾👏🏾🔥🔥❤️

  • @chickenhunt5163
    @chickenhunt5163 Před 2 lety +21

    So sad these will just be thrown away in the ocean

    • @handyhammy1902
      @handyhammy1902 Před 2 lety

      Even sadder to see tax dollar being wasted

    • @chickenhunt5163
      @chickenhunt5163 Před 2 lety

      @@handyhammy1902 Nasa in general or only sls?

    • @atanasapostolov2731
      @atanasapostolov2731 Před 2 lety

      @@chickenhunt5163 sls.. Nasa does alot of great things and noone can deny that but cmon man 2 billion for this..?

    • @jswaggart01
      @jswaggart01 Před 2 lety +4

      @@handyhammy1902 I’d rather see taxes being “wasted” like this instead of ending up in politicians back pockets.

    • @weebgrinder
      @weebgrinder Před 2 lety

      @@jswaggart01 first of all I just want to preface this by saying that I'm a big fan of the SLS and I'm also a fan of starship. So I try not to be biased one way or the other but if you just Google or search engine search of your choice SLS core stages testing Senate bill you'll find this article about how the core stages have to be tested that is each one even though it's not required and this is just to make money for the district that the test facility is in which I believe is Alabama somewhere... Sorry for the lack of grammar I'm using voice input

  • @CJ_102
    @CJ_102 Před 2 lety

    I'm amazed that the building doesn't just get torn apart and implode

  • @anthalas9
    @anthalas9 Před 2 lety +8

    So these are the exact same engines that the space shuttle used. The tech is over 40 years old. So why do they need all this testing. The whole reason the SLS was to use the old shuttle engines was so they could save time by not having to design and test a new engine.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +3

      The user profile for the RS-25 engine is completely different for SLS! Among other things, they have to run longer on an SLS flight than on a shuttle flight.

    • @eagleviewhd
      @eagleviewhd Před 2 lety +8

      You are right! SpaceX is so far ahead of NASA. They mounted 29 Raptor Engines on the Super Heavy First stage. Only took them 12 hours to do!
      NASA says it takes a week to swap out an engine on their test stand! Ludicrous.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +4

      @@eagleviewhd The only thing that is ridiculous is you. Typical Elon Fanboy, big mouth and absolutely no idea about space technology. You idiot are comparing two engines that are fundamentally different and you are comparing two processes that are absolutely not to be compared. I save myself the trouble and time to explain this to you because you are simply not able to understand it.

    • @ironagent45
      @ironagent45 Před 2 lety +7

      @@ukk9031 No, you aren't explaining it because you yourself have no idea what your on about. Go ahead, explain to me why Nasa fitting an engine and Space X fitting an engine can have so much difference in time. I'm listening.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      @@ironagent45 Even the question in and of itself and the relevance to the matter show me the pointlessness of an answer to you. Talk about the matter in your ‘Elon Fanboy Playgroup’. There you can sing with your playmates and clap your hands and be happy how quickly the Rocket-Jesus agricultural machinery fitter can install an engine . . .

  • @dakotapicou
    @dakotapicou Před 2 lety

    tell me again why we are testing on an engine we have flown how many times now on space shuttle?

  • @amangogna68
    @amangogna68 Před 2 lety

    Amazing !

  • @paulmurphy8549
    @paulmurphy8549 Před 2 lety

    Aren't they the shuttle engines?have they not been test fired enough?

  • @windowboy
    @windowboy Před 2 lety

    How much $$$ per second in fuel was used?

  • @SupraNaturalTT
    @SupraNaturalTT Před 2 lety +1

    The thing that amazes me is how powerful the flow of the fuel pumps are to supply enough fuel for the engines🤯

    • @surgemeister01
      @surgemeister01 Před 2 lety +1

      That's pushing 415,000 lb of thrust, now imagine the fuel flow to the mighty F-1 with over 1.5 million lb thrust. Insane amount of flow.

    • @SupraNaturalTT
      @SupraNaturalTT Před 2 lety +1

      @@surgemeister01 Absolutely, crazy to see the engine freezing over even though they are pushing some high temp exhaust.
      Really strange things go on in rocket engines. Recommend watching bell housing vs aero spike engines from Engineering Explained channel 👍

  • @johnbeckwith1361
    @johnbeckwith1361 Před 2 lety

    No wonder it so humid out there.

  • @fabioferreiragomes
    @fabioferreiragomes Před 2 lety

    INCRÍVEL..ESPETACULAR...

  • @SupraNaturalTT
    @SupraNaturalTT Před 2 lety

    Serious question not that anyone should be in the rocket nozzle are where you can see stairs and gantries, would it be possible to walk around while the engine is going since the pressure wave would be down stream of the thrust? Of course with insane amount of hearing protection.
    Wonder what that would look like being about to see it up close and personal 😃.

    • @michaelangelo6378
      @michaelangelo6378 Před 2 lety +1

      No, the vacuum from the flow of thrust sucks air, debris, anything loose even you down into flame trench. Watch slow motion of saturn ignitions.

    • @SupraNaturalTT
      @SupraNaturalTT Před 2 lety

      @@michaelangelo6378 I was kinda thinking about that of if there were any way to hold on to the railing or would it be too much vacuum force to overcome?

  • @bravo-93
    @bravo-93 Před 2 lety

    That is so old school. Just look at SpaceX.

  • @munikrishnan6374
    @munikrishnan6374 Před 2 lety +1

    Love space

  • @aggregat
    @aggregat Před 2 lety

    Is this engine 30 or 40 years old?

  • @awoodcoc
    @awoodcoc Před 2 lety

    Wonder how much that one burn cost… 🤔

  • @docbrown6550
    @docbrown6550 Před 2 lety

    Awesome

  • @darcyhildebrand9286
    @darcyhildebrand9286 Před 2 lety +4

    Gee, maybe this means NASA may actually attach it to something that actually can fly into space within the next several decades. Meanwhile, Space X will be landing on Pluto.

    • @stephenrowley4171
      @stephenrowley4171 Před 2 lety

      I recon SlS will win the heats but Starship will win the race

    • @bravo-93
      @bravo-93 Před 2 lety

      Yeah… I would’ve bet on anything involving the government. All bets are on the private sector.

    • @obamama3121
      @obamama3121 Před 2 lety +1

      spacex wont land humans on mars by 2035 so lol

    • @stephenrowley4171
      @stephenrowley4171 Před 2 lety

      @@obamama3121 I doubt they ever will tbh. I also can't see NASA allowing manned missions on a space system without an escape system.
      But I can see starship being dropped and using superheavy as a launch vehicle.

  • @kjireland3567
    @kjireland3567 Před 2 lety +9

    That's me when I blow out a bong rip

  • @Sheeeshy6969
    @Sheeeshy6969 Před 2 lety +3

    Zero pollution.Good work.

  • @l214laus
    @l214laus Před 2 lety +1

    According to the description it says 5th August.

  • @edwardlecore141
    @edwardlecore141 Před 2 lety

    There's something reassuring about Nasa's habit of doing full duration burns.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      NASA's many years of experience have shown that this is the right way to go. It costs a lot and takes time, but the result was worth it. In the end, it saved costs and saved lives.

    • @RajdeepDatta032
      @RajdeepDatta032 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ukk9031 Lol, when did NASA for the last time save costs? 😂

    • @wino99999
      @wino99999 Před 2 lety +1

      And I seem to remember NASA knew about the O-rings and the Foam falling off the External tank, and did nothing to save those lives..... Seems they just want to test test test these engines when in practice the un-tested (but known problems) take the lives of our Astronauts!
      When are they going to test BE-4's....... much more worthy, late to the party, test needed right there!

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      @@RajdeepDatta032 Heeeeey Apu, shouldn't you be selling rotten Chicken Tikka Masala in your Kwik-E-Mart?

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 Před 2 lety

    Far out👍

  • @bijoybanik8628
    @bijoybanik8628 Před 2 lety

    Why are there cars in such proximity of the test facility 😳😳😳😳

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety +1

      Did you want the engineers to walk?

    • @bijoybanik8628
      @bijoybanik8628 Před 2 lety

      @@dogwalker666 what i meant was wont the cars break because of sound and heat?

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      @@bijoybanik8628 ah right well I would not park my car that close.

  • @valamaas
    @valamaas Před 2 lety

    To fall asleep to.

  • @hoimaoilcitylifestyle5840

    We need that smoke in Mars , for green houses 😳

  • @marvinmartinsYT
    @marvinmartinsYT Před 2 lety +1

    8:37. Neighbourhood. O thank god.

  • @beetlekey
    @beetlekey Před 2 lety

    40 year old, need a history licence plate.

  • @eagleviewhd
    @eagleviewhd Před 2 lety +11

    SpaceX made history today when they stacked second stage on to the super heavy first stage! The most powerful racket ever built. Look forward to watching it launch soon! While NASA is still,playing with outdated technology!

    • @davidgriffeth4912
      @davidgriffeth4912 Před 2 lety +2

      Senators are to blame fro their dinosaur thinking. Lawmakers are unbelievably dull and unimaginative a d have focused on jobs in certain states to get votes on an extremely expensive launch system. Lawmakers should have listened to scientists, engineers, and not just a reuse of costly tech. The space shuttle was a perfect example of government and military goons messing with science.

    • @nagaea7409
      @nagaea7409 Před 2 lety +1

      Ah yes racket

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +1

      @Eagle View HD Wow, Rocket-Jesus put two trashbuckets on top of each other, wow, what a gigantic, historical world event! I thought I had already read the most stupid Elon fanboy comment today. But no, your comment tops everything. Just as a reminder for you an all the stupid Elon Fanboys, SLS will soon be flying to the moon, probably this year, while the Vaporware-King alias Rocket-Jesus is still playing with his exploding trashbuckets. Oh, how we laughed and enjoyed ourselves at Elon's fireworks show this year. And he even gives us an encore, what an entertainer. But most of all I'm looking forward to the SLS Artemis moon missions and to the stupid faces of the Elon fanboys who have to wait a very very long time until their Rocket Jesus can do anything even closer.

    • @daltonpethel5697
      @daltonpethel5697 Před 2 lety +8

      @@ukk9031 I think you are confused I'm no fanboy but I didn't know this was a competition these two spacecraft will be operating in the same program called Artimis. NASA has paid space x to build a version starship to go the moon and land people so they are very much going to be a team in getting people to the moon not at all a competition.

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      @@daltonpethel5697 Bullshit, Artemis and Starship are two different programs! SpaceX was commissioned by NASA to develop the Moonlander for the Artemis program and nothing more. The Moonlander to be supplied by SpaceX has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the Starship. The Moonlander has a completely different requirement profile than the Starship. SpaceX is only the Moonlander supplier for the Artemis program as it Grumman Aerospace Corporation was earlier for Apollo. I seriously doubt that SpaceX can do that anywhere as well as Grummun.

  • @dcraexon
    @dcraexon Před 2 lety +1

    If the rocket can handle all those geez why not put it on a rail gun and then fire the rocket when it gets to an altitude ?

    • @headbanger1428
      @headbanger1428 Před 2 lety

      And which rail gun would you choose? For clarification, it’s not “geez” but “G’s”.

    • @dcraexon
      @dcraexon Před 2 lety

      @@headbanger1428 not spellchecking spellcheck Thanks 🙏 English teacher

    • @equation1321
      @equation1321 Před 2 lety

      Mainly Because it would break from the g force. To launch it up from a push it would easily get over 30 Gs and it’s not going to survive that. It would probably severely damage the avionics and computer systems. That is 10 times as big of a g force than a normal launch.
      Correct me if I’m wrong

    • @nickbisson8243
      @nickbisson8243 Před 2 lety

      @@equation1321 pretty much sums it up

  • @djpsycosmiley1
    @djpsycosmiley1 Před 2 lety

    Go.......

    • @jakemckee1923
      @jakemckee1923 Před 2 lety +4

      Away flat earther?

    • @djpsycosmiley1
      @djpsycosmiley1 Před 2 lety

      @@jakemckee1923 That assertion was never put forth. Interesting response. This could be interpreted one of three ways; what do you think they could be?

    • @johnbiggscr
      @johnbiggscr Před 2 lety

      @@djpsycosmiley1 I would interpret it as he saw your previous posts declaring it all fake, saw that your channels include several flat earth ones, and extrapolated from there.

  • @williamstephens9945
    @williamstephens9945 Před 2 lety

    Why are they testing a 40+ year old design?

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      Why has nature been testing all life forms since their formation billions of years ago?

    • @_mikolaj_
      @_mikolaj_ Před 2 lety +1

      This engine is test article on which Aerojet rocketdyne tests parts of new RS-25E engine before it itself goes on test stand. It allows them to test part before first engines are built

  • @jonathanbaldwin1280
    @jonathanbaldwin1280 Před 2 lety

    You vape bro?
    “Lol yah. Watch this”

  • @jannowaak7010
    @jannowaak7010 Před 2 lety +1

    Where is Greenpeace?what sort of polution it is?

  • @MrChiefsmaster
    @MrChiefsmaster Před 2 lety +2

    yeah, another throw-away rocket! another few billion dollars of waste

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      All throw-away rockets built worldwide have made it possible to develop new rocket technologies! Even this would-be rocket Jesus and vaporware-king from Texas would be just a fart behind the moon without these thron-away rockets.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      Have yo seen how much money the military waste.

    • @rpmhart
      @rpmhart Před 2 lety +2

      @@ukk9031 What the hell does that mean?? New rocket technologies are here...and they're reusable. NOT 'thron-away' anymore. These are wasteful dinosaurs, and that's OUR money that's being wasted.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      @@ukk9031 hail the white paper! Hail Hyperloop! 😂

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +1

      @@dogwalker666 Yeah, exactly . . . 👍

  • @charliew.1122
    @charliew.1122 Před 2 lety +2

    It's a whole ass static fire and still everybody chose to watch Starship get stacked instead, speaks volumes.

    • @MrBigShotFancyPants
      @MrBigShotFancyPants Před 2 lety

      I sure did tho came straight here asap after noticing the starship unstacking(stage separation)get under way.

    • @456fredva
      @456fredva Před 2 lety

      True true, see there is two stages attached to rocket motors 6 on one and twenty something to the other, and not just a rocket motor fixed to a test stand........ Still blooming amazing though

    • @tae5216
      @tae5216 Před 2 lety

      SpaceX’s static fires are also quite common. I think it’s just the fact that SLS progress is not really shown live, while SpaceX does all their rocket stuff in the open.

    • @taliskerskye
      @taliskerskye Před 2 lety

      Seen this before, not seen starship stacking before

    • @ericssmith2014
      @ericssmith2014 Před 2 lety +1

      A space shuttle main engine better static fire successfully without me looking over its shoulder, they must've done one of these when I was in nursery school.

  • @thorodinson524
    @thorodinson524 Před 2 lety +2

    If going to moon was a lie, why do all of this again??

    • @piggypiggypig1746
      @piggypiggypig1746 Před 2 lety +3

      They built the Ford Model T, so why keep testing cars in 2021.

    • @dorkle9085
      @dorkle9085 Před 2 lety +1

      @@piggypiggypig1746 Exactly, but OP isn't saying the moon landing was fake

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety +1

      Exactly,

    • @WildPhotoShooter
      @WildPhotoShooter Před 2 lety +4

      If going to the moon was a lie why did they do it seven times ( with one failure) Wouldn't once have been enough to dupe people ?

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      @@WildPhotoShooter good point.

  • @michaeldomansky8497
    @michaeldomansky8497 Před 2 lety

    A Space Shuttle Engine …… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @EZ-qg7hp
      @EZ-qg7hp Před 2 lety

      No, it’s the sls rocket engine!

    • @jakemckee1923
      @jakemckee1923 Před 2 lety +1

      @@EZ-qg7hp it is an STS engine though. Just reused.

    • @nagaea7409
      @nagaea7409 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jakemckee1923 it has different plumbing, that’s why they’re testing the engines out

    • @jakemckee1923
      @jakemckee1923 Před 2 lety +1

      @@nagaea7409 yeah, well changed for new purposes, but it’s still the same engine.

    • @nagaea7409
      @nagaea7409 Před 2 lety

      @@jakemckee1923 I’d say it’s pretty different, for instance the Merlin 1C and Merlin 1D have totally different specs

  • @ukk9031
    @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

    Those steaming pipes on top of the engine . . . just great . . .

  • @infinitejack2115
    @infinitejack2115 Před 2 lety

    meh, hoxe

  • @williamryder9785
    @williamryder9785 Před 2 lety

    so this to get ready for shitting down the whole program?

  • @meditatingstuff
    @meditatingstuff Před 2 lety

    Happy ice melting at the polar caps 🤦‍♂️

  • @windowboy
    @windowboy Před 2 lety

    Hope that steam was full of vaccine !!

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety +3

      Well that's an idiotic comment, although anti vaxers should be shot with dart guns, bunch of cowards.

    • @frankie_boy_
      @frankie_boy_ Před 2 lety

      @@dogwalker666 no more idiotic than yours. And less violent.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety +2

      @@frankie_boy_ how is it violent, they do it to vaccinated wild animals, and animals have the excuse of not knowing any better, Anti-vaxers are just selfish ignorant cowards.

  • @carlhancox9699
    @carlhancox9699 Před 2 lety +1

    So we can't buy petrol cars from 2030 but they can do this mad init

    • @stuartrules456789
      @stuartrules456789 Před 2 lety +1

      Don't forget to to buy little power saving light bulbs too.

    • @failandia
      @failandia Před 2 lety +6

      This is not even 0.00001% of c02 of the day from cars, you don't understand the scale of the problem

    •  Před 2 lety +4

      Rocket fuel isn't gasoline. Ever googled it?

    • @nickbisson8243
      @nickbisson8243 Před 2 lety +6

      It's literally water vapor

    • @stuartrules456789
      @stuartrules456789 Před 2 lety +1

      @@failandia Ships and Military's are the biggest c02 producers, not cars. Farts even cause more c02.

  • @AdrianSchouten
    @AdrianSchouten Před 2 lety

    Why bother...

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety +4

      Why not . . . ?

    • @AdrianSchouten
      @AdrianSchouten Před 2 lety

      @@ukk9031 nothing worth launching lol

    • @ukk9031
      @ukk9031 Před 2 lety

      @@AdrianSchouten What is it worth to launch?

    • @itishappy
      @itishappy Před 2 lety +1

      @@AdrianSchouten Hydrolox engines are sexy beasts. Best in class specific impulse with way lower emmisions that SpaceX's methalox Raptor (and even better than the RP1 burning Merlin).
      SLS is a money pit, but these engines are good tech.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety +1

      @@AdrianSchouten says a guy using space technology to make a comment.

  • @djpsycosmiley1
    @djpsycosmiley1 Před 2 lety

    Not A Space Administration

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      Idiotic comment of the day award goes to!

  • @sagunkhadka9786
    @sagunkhadka9786 Před 2 lety

    Cut more trees n fire more carbon

    • @ironagent45
      @ironagent45 Před 2 lety

      The RS-25 rocket engine is fueled by Oxygen and Hydrogen which produce H2O as on output, also known as water.