How A Rocket Ride Really Sounds -- Thanks To Star Wars Tech | Video
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2012
- Skywalker Sound, the George Lucas audio department responsible for so much science fiction, turns its golden-eared genius to mixing and enhancing the real sound of a Solid Rocket Booster from lift-off to splashdown.
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watching the vapor cone form around the leading edges of the shuttle was probably one of the coolest things I've seen.
1:19 - Breaking mach 1. nothing else like it.
@glasseay I've been out at sea on the SRB recovery ships. It's quite thrilling to see - and hear - the boosters sailing overhead, then splashing down. They make sonic booms on the way in. And it's amazing how fast they travel in the lower atmosphere; even quite close to hitting the ocean.
whoever came up with the idea to do this is my hero.
As one old audio-post guy to another: Couldn't agree more! To your questions:
1) Yes, falling ice was well-known on later Shuttle flights and is the major reason the whole side-mount design was a bad idea - and will not be repeated in future vehicles
2) There have been two failed attempts to put a "Mars microphone" on landers: Mars Polar Lander crashed and Mars Phoenix failed to activate the mic due to a computer card error. btw. what mic would you use? I'd go with an SM7B myself!
Now this is cool. As a blind person i always wanted to know what it sounds like inside the shuttle. So cool!
The time that the boosters are in the upper atmosphere without air is amazing! All you hear are the vibrations of the internal structures because there isn't any air for the sound to vibrate with. I love it!
amazing video.
I actually got a feeling of "ahhh home" when it touched back down.
0 - 60 in 4.3 seconds, not bad
and that's the slowet acceleration it gets because of all the unburned fuel....
Also because fuel is being burned at such a rapid rate, the vehicle is getting lighter as it ascends, so acceleration is increasing the entire time engines are lit
The Large Hardon Collider that's what i said....
pretty impressive for a rocket but not for a tesla roadster 2 which can go 0-60 in 1.9 seconds
I would like to see the roadster pull the same acceleration vertical...
Sound waves need a medium in which to travel. A camera attached to the side of a booster will have no problem picking up sounds, as the sound waves are traveling through the shell of the rockets and into the camera. The sounds will be slightly different than what we hear through air here on Earth. It would be similar to pressing your ear agains a guitar as you play it. In a vaccum, you wouldn't be able to hear a guitar, BUT if you placed your ear on the guitar itself, you would hear it fine.
@wozopza There's plenty of sound in space. There's not much AIR (or anything else) to transmit that sound. But if you mount an acoustic transducer on an acoustically conductive object (like a rocket body) you will record that sound. In this case, a lot of the booster's flight is within the thick portion of Earth's atmosphere.
After all the hard work they put into getting the shuttle into space, they're just ejected with the push of a button. Rocket boosters: the unsung heroes of the shuttle program.
Well, yeah. But also an homage to the inventor Tomlinson Holman, whose eXperimental theater audio system while employed at Luacsfilm turned into the specs for all such systems.
1:13 that is too cool,breaking the sound barrier
Beautiful sound
I love the creaking sounds coming from the boosters. Its like they are alive.
Incredible. I can't thank you enough for these videos.
Sure you can....just try really hard
If that was a rollercoaster ride, i'd totally go on it.
Wow... This is amazing. I feel like an Astronaut.
I could be wrong about what you're referring to, but if it's the white chunks @0:33, then that's just the protective coating that protects the shuttle at the launch site from rain and other weather.
I hope Skywalker Sound would also make "Falcon 9: Riding the booster up and down in 9 minutes"
I always wondered how the rockets and fuel stuff got back to Earth. I always just figured they disintegrated reentering the atmosphere.
This is the real deal. This is crazy. Makes me feel like I am THERE that's pretty fucking cool.
Amazing video !! Thank you !
That is the most amazing video I ever saw!
Great work!!!!!!! So enjoyable!
wow this was really neat to watch
That's incorrect. Sound is defined as mechanical vibrations transmitted by any medium of sufficient strength to excite sensory receptors in organisms who can correlate the impulse of those receptor within a brain to form a sensation. Things in space make sound. The vacuum of space precludes the transmission of that sound ONLY when the receptor is separated from the source or any other transmissive medium. "Recording vibrations and playing them back so we can hear them" EXACTLY means "sound."
That noise... so pretty
Hitting the water was soooo cool
@VideoFromSpace Is the 'sonic boom' effect displayed in this video? If not, was it because there was a lack of moisture at the specific altitude that the spacecraft achieved supersonic speed?
This video is amazing. I use to be scared of space, but now I just love it!
*haha Challenger*
Loved every second...
Awesome video
Good bid. Thanks. Do they reuse them or is that just bs ?
Awesome video.
I don't know where you get the idea that '2G doesn't happen'. The maximum G force the astronauts are exposed to during a shuttle launch is about 3 Gs. The acceleration will increase with height, due to there being less drag and a smaller payload (less fuel), so you can expect something along the order of 1.5 Gs at liftoff. I'm not sure what the fuss is about.
this is AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0.24 Im amazed at how much the SRB's sound like the rockets from Thunderbirds, the sixties got it right for a change =P
Super cool man!
Wonderful, i love it!
That's pretty sick!
HOW COOL!! THX.
WOW thats awesome!
When you talk about ice, if you're referring to the white objects falling past the wings right after launch I can tell you that's not ice. They're fabric covers which protect the orbiter's thrusters prior to launch and they pose no threat to the vehicle.
This is haunting but so damn cool
Space is so.... so much stillness, quiet eternal stillness.
Yup, that too. However I was referring also a bit further back to the 1971 Lucas film THX 1138
Could you imagine just chillin in a fishing boat out in the middle of the ocean, then all of the sudden a fucking rocket booster just lands next to you? That would scare the shit out of me. lol
that was so exciting!
Best video EVER!!!! By the way, this does CONFIRM that ghosts live inside these solid rocket boosters as confirmed by the moaning sounds @ 5:01 - 5:03!
Holy fuck! The sound barrier was cool to watch =D
The white pieces falling from the shuttle after launch aren't ice but paper coverings from the shuttles RCS
All i can say is wow!
I enjoyed watching this video as it explains how the shuttle goes into the atmosphere. Made me Very Dizzy, when u could c the rockets propel off. Do they disnagrate n the atmosphere? Thought about the Shuttle that blew up, w/the teacher & other astronuots aboard. Thanks again.
That's awsome!!!
Best go pro commercial ever
You don't really think they use a go pro?
Kelpwoud they use a gopro
So freakin cool. Science, FTW!
Wonderful !!! Earth from space space from earth !!!
COOL.. st 5:06. look at the smoke trail rocket produced from ground to upper atmosphere.
A question to you gentlemen, if I may. I take it at these heights, the Athmosphere is a near vacuum. Is the sound of the Boosters falling the actual real sound, just "loudened" to enable us hearing it?
The life of Rocket Booster
Oh and at 7:50, I like to imagine it as two probes landing on an alien ocean
The shuttle itself has hydrogen-oxygen powered rocket engines. They work all the time, but the flames are rarely visible as the booster rockets' flame is way brighter and produces a lot more smoke because the fuel is different. If the shuttle's engines would turn off, the whole structure would start tumbling, obviously.
I agree this is amazing. But thats actually not ice, if you look at videos from the cockpit, its actually plastic/paper/etc coverings on the forward rcs ports. Im guessing to keep things out of them. They are blown off shortly after launch by the wind.
I think there was a mic on the skycrane or rover of Curiosity. Not sure though.
My respects.
5:01
Now I know that whales do actually live in the upper atmosphere
It is frightening.....in an awesome kind of way.
50 mph is not nearly sufficient enough to cause significant damage to the components. However, its not like they load 'em up, refuel, and launch again without any other work. They are refurbished and brought to spec before being re-used. This is much cheaper than constructing entirely new SRBs before every launch. Sadly (not really), the external fuel tanks have a very different fate. The altitude which they are jettisoned is too high to safely re-enter, so they end up burning up on re-entry.
OMFG THE SPEED
VISCERAL!!! YOU CAN SEE THE ORBITER BENDING TOWARDS THE EXTERNAL TANK AND BACK AT SSME IGNITION!!!
I'm not sure what that sound was from space, but I know there can only be sound where there is air or something like that. Correct me if I'm wrong.
7:50 What's the small parachute in the distance?
Seeing those chuncks-o-stuff slamming into the wing at 0:33 really makes me shudder...
Why, you could break a wing panel that way!
Tell that to Husband, McCool, Anderson, Ramon, Chawla, Brown and Clark.
Or tell it to their graves, as ***exactly that*** is what killed them.
During launch on 16 jan 2003 a chunk of foam-and-ice slammed into the wing of shuttle Columbia, flying mission STS -107, breaking a wing panel.
On 1 feb 2003, during re-entry, this broken panel killed the shuttle and its crew.
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DONT tell me to not worry!!!!!
i have a few questions someone could hopefully answer, 1. as the SRB was going through mach effect on its way down, is that also when the troposphere starts? 2. why does mach effect stop immediately after hitting 790 MPH?
700 MPH, Breaks sound barrier.
7:44 The Kraken is attacking the space debris!
nice
The white rocket boosters :)
Do these drop below the sound barrier at a low enough altitude to create a sonic boom?
7:22 awesomee......!!!!!
7 minutes 30 seconds of pure adrenaline. Who wants to ride??!!??
My favorite part was when the air suddenly clouded up around the craft when it broke the sound barrier.
What's the object coming down under a parachute at the end of the clip?!
Damn acceleration is CRAZY !!
Holy smokes!! did you see the Speed rate going from liftoff to a wind breaking speed of 750 Mph on just 48 mins, - On Land, we'd get concerned driving only at 100 or 130 mph. on an empty highway.
48 seconds*
Imagine if they did this for the Saturn V...
Why the hell do you need to go to the movies now?) This was way more fun!
we live on an amazing planet
The speed is estimated, and using the clock and speed provided, the acceleration during the first 3 seconds is ~ 4.5 m/s², so by my calculations they were experiencing about 1.5 Gs. Again, these calculations are based on the speeds provided - which are estimated. In fact, the speed in the first angle at 3 seconds is about 28 MPH. When the angle switches, the timer reverts, and then is at 49 mph at 3 seconds. Fake? No. Inaccurate? Admittedly. Again, they estimated, and its close enough.
....and now I have vertigo. (But still...freakin' AMAZING video!)
1:14 - 1:22 The breaking of the sound barrier!
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Once it goes outside the atmosphere, there isn't any sound. When the ship re-enters the atmosphere, the sound returns.
05:47 - you don't see that every day!
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I would expect the speed indicator to show a massive drop the moment when the parachutes are opened. I didn't happen.
Also, during the first seconds of the launch the rocket appears to be experiencing 2G, which doesn't happen.
The speed is fake.
Otherwise... awesome video...
IM GONNA THROW UP
Wow, amazing. This gave me the chills.
I wish that I was actually riding it lol.