{"id":194900,"date":"2008-08-10T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/the-sad-twisted-tale-nasas-ares-rockets\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:05:00","slug":"the-sad-twisted-tale-nasas-ares-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/the-sad-twisted-tale-nasas-ares-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad, Twisted Tale NASA&#8217;s Ares rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that, much like the shuttle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/08\/310555\/the-battle-goes-on-for-nasas-ares-rockets.html\">NASA&#8217;s Ares rockets are proving difficult to develop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally intended to rely heavily on existing equipment, largely based on the Shuttle, nothing is going that way:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Beyond the much publicised CLV solid-rocket motor oscillation problem, other issues for Ares I include pocket buckling in its upper-stage liquid hydrogen (LH2) tank, an immature first-stage forward skirt avionics box design, protection for parachutes against the interstage&#8217;s shaped linear charge separation system and first-stage thrust vector control (TVC) changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect this to be both behind schedule and over budget, again.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20270734\/329355398.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20270734\/329355405.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20270734\/329355420.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that, much like the shuttle, NASA&#8217;s Ares rockets are proving difficult to develop. Originally intended to rely heavily on existing equipment, largely based on the Shuttle, nothing is going that way: Beyond the much publicised CLV solid-rocket motor oscillation problem, other issues for Ares I include pocket buckling in its upper-stage liquid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1036,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-nasa","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}