Getting some serious Sea Dragon vibes from this rocket. Yet another amazing animation. Us space fans really do appreciate your beautiful work. Thank you!
@jmwoods1902 жыл бұрын
And interestingly, Bono had proposed at least one other version of the ROOST that is bigger than the one above- one about the size of the Sea Dragon!
@curious58872 жыл бұрын
@@jmwoods190 what’s the name of the other design?
@skenzyme812 жыл бұрын
The lowered orange sea anchors at the end were clever. They appear flimsy but once in the water, the would have provided many tons of stabilizing force if the wind kicked up.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Needed since it was essentially a hydrogen balloon at that point :)
@sciencetriumph94882 жыл бұрын
Yeah, to bad it would explode during reentry
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
@@sciencetriumph9488 Why would you think that?
@skenzyme812 жыл бұрын
@@randycampbell6307 The technology is still pretty far away. NASA only demonstrated the first successful test of an inflatable heat shield just a month ago. Just look up "LOFTID Inflatable Heat Shield"
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
@@skenzyme81 Like many technologies inflatables (both habitats and heat shields) was being strongly developed in the 50s and 60s to a point where they could be live tested but lack of direct use for Apollo and budget issues meant they were shelved. We've essentially had to redevelop the concepts from square one.
@xlynx92 жыл бұрын
Nice animation. You're digging up some really cool concepts I'd never heard of without you.
@timbermicka2 жыл бұрын
What an insanely overkilll way to launch that tiny Mercury-Agena spacecraft
@tarunantony18662 жыл бұрын
I think its a Gemini spacecraft
@iamarokotmanson2 жыл бұрын
It's a Big Gemini
@tarunantony18662 жыл бұрын
@@iamarokotmanson oh yeah, I must’ve really undersized the launch vehicle. I see the differences now.
@davidstuckey92892 жыл бұрын
That's the most amazing use of the " ballute" concept I have seen
@Cruiserfrank2 жыл бұрын
I've heard a lot about Philip Bono's other Douglas rocket concepts, like ROMBUS and Pegasus/Ithacus, but I'd never heard of this. Time for some research! I love your inclusion of the H-34 Sea Horse helicopters and an old Liberty Ship type freighter. Gives the video a cool early '60s vibe.
@retrofan422 жыл бұрын
There has been a similar heat shield concept under development by NASA for several years, although much smaller (inflatable cone shaped). When the JPSS mission launches (planned for the next month or so), there is a payload called LOFTID (Low-Earth Orbital Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator). The concept has been tested several times at various altitudes in the atmosphere, this will be the first attempt to do reentry with it. You can choose this option in KSP as a supplemental heat shield.
@jesselopez00082 жыл бұрын
Im working on a similar concept as a part of my bachelor's degree
@michagrill94322 жыл бұрын
And it just was tested and it worked perfectly :D
@Dominion694202 жыл бұрын
Phillip Bono never fails to amaze me with all these designs. Should have been given a chance with atleast one
@Chris.Davies2 жыл бұрын
By far the nuttiest SSTO concept I have ever seen.
@brutalvous2 жыл бұрын
And please make that 1959 Aldebaran concept someday, I never heard about that one and it looks so cool.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
The Air Force seven Titan bodies powering two F1 engines booster or the really insane contained orion drive version by Dandridge Cole? (I suspect the latter but that's the problem with 1950s concepts, everyone was using all the names :) )
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
All that to deliver a "Big Gemini" to orbit :) Great animation as always. Looking forward to seeing if you do an LRV (Lenticular Reentry Vehicle) launch and landing at some point. Watching a half dozen tanks dragging the LRV lifted by a gigantic hot air balloon back to the launch site would be...cool? :)
@trr940012 жыл бұрын
SSTO means accepting pitifully tiny payload fractions.
@stuartyoung41822 жыл бұрын
Would it only be a Big G payload - or might something else be deployed from the payload adapter behind the Gemini? This is a Bono concept with which I was not previously familiar - so I was assuming that the Gemini was just used for guidance - was going to ask whether this vehicle could be launched uncrewed as a cargo craft only. I'll have to do an Internet search for ROOST to get the full picture.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
@@stuartyoung4182 See the "Spaceflight History" link I put down (August 2022) as he has a fully look at the ROOST design. Ya it was 'supposed' to have over 300,000lbs payload to orbit and a return payload of 30,000lbs and could be used crewed or uncrewed. Again though Bono was known for his optimism :)
@MartinDawson-u6i10 ай бұрын
The Gemini was to be used on test missions, later missions would have a 'proper' large payload.
@simongeard48242 жыл бұрын
I've definite concerns about the practicality of that landing... a hot-air balloon landing at sea is going to have horrific problems with wind. And once down it seems to still ride very high out of the water... you're presumably relying on the balloon (ballute?) to keep the rocket out of the saltwater, but you'd need to get it at least partly deflated quickly to reduce sail area... towing it as-is would be challenging.
@kayboku72812 жыл бұрын
im pretty sure all this plus more is the reason its never been built!. For instance how absolutly humoungous must the hot air balloon be to be floating an empty rocket in air! Gonna need fuel to keep that hot air hot! When it hits the water it would cool extremely fast, hence no longer be floating. SO many reasons this was just an imaginery concept.
@luigeribeiro2 жыл бұрын
@@kayboku7281 How do you know there is hot air inside it? It could be hydrogen, helium.... about the cooling: the heat shield bellow wouldn't allow a rapid variation in temperature due to its very low thermal conductivity.
@JBM4252 жыл бұрын
Apparently, they are going to test the inflatable heat shield concept next month with a subsatellite payload called LOFTID. We’ll see how well that works in a small scale demonstrator.
@rolflandale25652 жыл бұрын
If it actually had thermal resistance for re-entering Earth atmospheres, then it should at least sustain weather at touch down, butthe touch down, one would be concerned about, the balloon will need to deflate or compress.
@simongeard48242 жыл бұрын
@@rolflandale2565 my concern about weather isn't simply that it could be damaged... it's about being able to control the descent and landing in anything more than a light breeze.
@webspiderc2 жыл бұрын
What material can make the "balloon" so strong , heat resistance and light weight?
Something similar is about to get its first orbital test soon. LOFTID. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6WviJ2Xj7usbrs
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Woven steel and heat resistant alloy threads with an inner hydrogen retaining liner. A 'bit' more than 'state-of-the-art' at the time but such materials had been tested and methods developed. Very similar to the inflatable heat shield concepts being tested today though our newer stuff is a lot lighter due to materials progress
@mased-v2j2 жыл бұрын
it's incredible how much improvement we see just in the one to two weeks between videos
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Added context and explanation of the concept can be found here: spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/reusable-one-stage-orbital-space-truck.html
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Can we get this pinned please for reference?
@solarsailor15342 жыл бұрын
As ridiculous as this seems, there’s some merit to the concept. The upcoming Vulcan Centaur rocket is planned to be upgraded with a first stage inflatable heat shield to protect the engines, avionics, and thrust structure during re-entry. Afterwards they can be caught with a helicopter and reused for future missions.
@quitegonejim11252 жыл бұрын
Great stuff as always! Congrats on 100k sub too, well deserved! 😁
@carl87032 жыл бұрын
That's... actually not a bad design.
@lewismassie2 жыл бұрын
That is a frankly absurdly massive inflatable
@X-JAKA72 жыл бұрын
Sea dragon reentry systems and this reentry system look a lot like cervical caps and menstrual cups.
@possum3032 жыл бұрын
What is the original audio for the launch sound?
@linkfan21092 жыл бұрын
Yoooo new vid! Your 3d animations are amazing
@austinmorris981 Жыл бұрын
So there was a Philip Bono design which was not profiled in the Kenneth Gatland book: "Space Frontiers". I did not know about this one. Thank you very much for this video!
@MartinDawson-u6i10 ай бұрын
That book was based on Ken and Phil's articles in B.I.S.'s 'Spaceflight' magazine in the late 1960's. Theres loads of imaginative idea's. Like Saturn V's with Minuteman first stages as strap ons ;o)
@conanotoole2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Visuals are fantastic! I did find one error though at 5:35 when the helicopter is flying past the navy vessel, the boats smoke seems to appear in front of the helicopter instead of behind it. Regardless, it's still a great video, keep up the good work!
@grandicellichannel2 жыл бұрын
Someone tell me who overfed a Mercury Redstone please is not healhy.
@upupup2222 жыл бұрын
what program do you use when you make this animation????
@mishapatapovich39962 жыл бұрын
Probably Autodesk Maya
@TheStoneAxe23Animation2 жыл бұрын
POV: someone gave NASA some extra zero's at the end of their budget
@koharumi12 жыл бұрын
sea dragon here we come.
@Тонилед2 жыл бұрын
Hmm, an elegant solution for the rescue of the first stage (in the USSR there was a similar project of an inflatable heat shield and a parachute for descending orbiters, plus a smaller version for individual spacesetting cosmonauts from orbit, a satchel with an analagic system that would allow an astronaut in a spacesuit to return to Earth independently).
@architgupta93952 жыл бұрын
great video
@fracturedgamer4202 жыл бұрын
Great video. One question though, wouldn't it have had to had a rope pulling it from behind while being towed to keep it from tipping over onto the towing boats?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Note that when it landed it had four (4) sea anchors deployed, the 'aft' most one would remain in the sea to provide drag and help with control. It's not going to 'tip-over' per-se since it's essentially a large hydrogen balloon as the ballute if filled and pressurized by hydrogen bleed off from the propellant residues.
@rubikmonat65892 жыл бұрын
What are the four small things ejected to the sides?
@pegasusted25042 жыл бұрын
They are the covers for the attitude control thrusters
@bazoo5132 жыл бұрын
Heh, that piston-engined Sikorsky helikopter dates the concept very nicely - nice touch! (I looked it up - 1953!) Inflatable hypersonic decelerator doubling as a hot air balloon is positively nuts, but might actually work - makes the whole job of propulsive landing unnecessary. But, we never succeeded making a SSTO craft, even winged and partially air-breathing. What was "secret sauce" here - extremely light airframe? (The propellant was supposed to be hydralox - I suppose that those engines would not be much different from F-1... Speaking of which, a tiny nitpick: the exhaust was too bright initially for hydrogen burning engines, IMO) Another beauty, Hazegrayart!
@alvis1686 Жыл бұрын
the secret sauce is size, ssto is relatively easy, they just have terrible payload capacity, if you make it enormous then that tiny fraction of mass that can be payload becomes useful.
@bazoo513 Жыл бұрын
@@alvis1686 You mean, if X-33 can lift a NASA decal worth of payload, something bigger than SpaceX SH/SS might actually have some meaningful payload? I am not sure that scaling works in that direction, but then, I am still drinking my first coffee... Thanks!
@brutalvous2 жыл бұрын
When was this concept proposed?
@blackasp0012 жыл бұрын
1963 actually
@acoitheadventurer10012 жыл бұрын
I can see why.
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын
Great video...👍
@fridaycaliforniaa2362 жыл бұрын
Damn, I don't wanna be the guy who will have to fold this thing 😂
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
"Guys" LOTS of "guys" to fold and inspect that after every flight :)
@fridaycaliforniaa236 Жыл бұрын
@@randycampbell6307 lol
@robertjacobs72232 жыл бұрын
Incredible pre- frontal work, guys & gals ..mind blowing Ideas .. how your cool visions & future is penetrated. CGI is mint! DON'T STOP..PLEASE MORE, MORE OFTEN.. IM A SUB..T.Y
@badrinair2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done ...
@nhhfdyhvdfghh2 жыл бұрын
Меня больше всего интересует, какой материал планируют использовать в качестве термозащитного для изготовления баллона?
@No.Inkognito2 жыл бұрын
И что происходит с газом во время нагрева щита? ))
@val827912 жыл бұрын
"Планировали" т.к. проект 1962 года. spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/reusable-one-stage-orbital-space-truck.html "he lower part of the drag cone, which would become its forward-facing "nose" during reentry (and thus would be exposed to the greatest aerodynamic heating) would comprise Rene 41 or stainless steel wire cloth coated with silicone sealant. It would be made up of "airmat" cells, so would tend to hold its shape even when not filled with gas" и.т.д
@caav562 жыл бұрын
ЕМНИП, металлоткань из рений-ниобиевого сплава плюс аблятивное покрытие поверх неё.
@val827912 жыл бұрын
@@caav56 о цене скромно умолчим...
@caav562 жыл бұрын
@@val82791 Планировалось отбить со временем за счёт многоразовости, плюс основная часть баллона была бы сталетканевой - рений-ниобиевый слой был бы только снаружи.
@richardm.newlands24172 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Looking forward to seeing if you do Bono's LRV (Lenticular Reentry Vehicle) .
@vwasson67252 жыл бұрын
Payload capacity? Rocket engines, type/power/quantity? Kind of skimpy on the deployment of the "bubble". What are the composites of the materials? Are the boost engines still in there somewhere? That's a huge sail area to manage in open seas in comparison to the apparent weight distribution. Pretty but where's the details? Or is this just someone's imagination being animated?
@caav562 жыл бұрын
>Pretty but where's the details? Or is this just someone's imagination being animated? Real project from back then, but yeah.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
See link to article at the top of the post. (Spaceflight History blog post for August 2022) Payload was to be about 360,000lbs proposed to orbit with a possible return payload of up to 30,00lbs (Again Bono was an optimist :) ) Engines were an new-build hydrolox engine (12 of them) each capable of at least 1 million pounds of thrust at sea level. (Note the SSME produced 418,000lbs, while the RS-68 produces 660,000lbs of thrust at sea level) The ballute is stainless steel and Rene41 cloth weave of which small batches had been tested. The boost engine are still in there, yes :)
@sjvche76752 жыл бұрын
Talk about f'ing a rolling donut. This concept has been around for decades, I think. Has there ever been a small scale proof of concept?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Well 'technically' the hydrogen "toroid" that made up the balloon section was about the size of the airships Akron and Macon combined so I guess you could say the 'concept' was tested :)
@ajds2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@memespeech2 жыл бұрын
is the bottom part - inflatable helium balloon?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Upper part of the 'cone' is a toroidal hydrogen balloon actually
@AndrewHillis_20244 ай бұрын
I LIKE R.O.O.S.T. LET'S BUILD IT ! ! !
@danmacgowan8242 Жыл бұрын
There is something wrong with the visual for this rocket. Given a estimated 35000 return weight, you are looking at approximately 17000 cubic meters of gas envelope to support that weight. Goodyear blimp: Gross weight: 12,840 lb (5,824 kg) Volume: 202,700 cu ft (5,740 m3) times 3. I think it would be a little bit bigger.
@TiberiusMaximus2 жыл бұрын
whats the material used for the combination heat shield balloon? Do we even have such a material?
@caav562 жыл бұрын
ReNe alloy. Yes, we do, but it's quite expensive.
@mishapatapovich39962 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a realized version of the British Interplanetary Society's Moon Rocket concept!
@mathiaslist6705 Жыл бұрын
So Bono was the first coming up with the inflateable heat shield? (as far as I know this just tested in the 21st just one or two years ago)
@bigcatsliontiger2 жыл бұрын
what program do you use to create those videos ?
@braderickson99962 жыл бұрын
Crazy enough to work. Once in a while, NASA does crazy. Such as landing on Mars, in a cluster of ballutes, bouncing to a stop.
@mrdavidgreen2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant animation - as always from Hazegrayart! But two things caught my eye this time.. someone has already mentioned the Navy helicopter passing behind the smoke of the ship, but it also would have been good to have seen its reflection in the dome of the heat sheild ;-)
@rustyneedles3743 Жыл бұрын
Your animations are top notch, love them, I am curious, what do you use to animate it all? Blender? again, awesome work
@d.cypher29202 жыл бұрын
wait, that Philip Bono?!! the singer, politician? i didn't know he was a 'rocket enthusiast' as well!!? 🇺🇸😎 great video!!
@retrofan422 жыл бұрын
That was Sonny Bono.
@pegasusted25042 жыл бұрын
I think it should be refurbishable and not reusable since you need replace lots of bits that get ejected ie the attitude control covers and the covers around the base.
@Historianization2 жыл бұрын
True, but all spacecraft even Falcon 9 require -something- to be replaced, and covers are much cheaper than engines or tankage.
@rolflandale25652 жыл бұрын
Goes from A to B & then B to C, that parts very sstol, the whole vessel has an air ballon for re-entering & land. Nice. Feasible with a temporary heat shield paint coat, what's the bottom of the balloon made of? And how to assure it drifts down on target pot?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
It's a hydrogen, not hot air balloon. It uses bleed off gas from the propellant residues to inflate and pressurize. The ballute was to be made of woven steel fibres with a special refractory metal fiber 'overlay' of the lower (and most heated) sections. Assuring it drifts down the 'targeted' spot was an issue since it had no control so the idea was to 'target' the equatorial 'doldrums' to avoid weather issues if possible. The downside was this would mean a long tow period or using overseas bases to process the booster and then ship it back to the US by a large barge.
@rolflandale25652 жыл бұрын
@@randycampbell6307 my first question was the balloon *texture* source. NOT the dought of how it floats or what's in it, the *re-entering* initiative... Technically the desending after can be hosted by adjacent drones, capturing the entering craft, after troposphere height, the final part wasn't complicated. Yet we all recognize they never demonstrated that eighter.
@larryliles40792 жыл бұрын
Love this guys work. Really would like to know what software package he is using to produce this those. I would love to try it for my own project.
@ultralaggerREV12 жыл бұрын
2:15 on camera shots like this, add some “wavy” distortion effect if possible
@smiskowiak2 жыл бұрын
The concept looks workable enough. My only question is how big is the payload bay? I saw the capsule separation, but that little thing can't be the payload. Otherwise you have this massive rocket hauling up a capsule no bigger than the Dragon capsule. It would be major overkill of a rocket.
@caav562 жыл бұрын
The capsule is plenty big (it's a Big Gemini, with enough space for 9 men and consumables for resupplying space station), but yeah, that's the payload. Such is a curse of SSTOs.
@fromnorway6432 жыл бұрын
@@caav56 Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation is _brutal!_
@John_Weiss Жыл бұрын
@@fromnorway643It's often called, "The tyranny of the Rocket Equation," for a reason…
@paulhaynes80452 жыл бұрын
I'd never heard of this, so didn't see the end coming. This has got to be the weirdest of all the STTO ideas!
@Northedoggie2 жыл бұрын
Who's up there filming this??
@LUIZ07982 жыл бұрын
Very good 👏
@a_Zkat2 жыл бұрын
Great work as always. This ballute seems too heavy, but it would be better than a Space Shuttle-type big wing for SSTO.
@eudell022 жыл бұрын
Tá aí um treco que eu nunca esperei ver kkk
@IanValentine147 Жыл бұрын
Amazing, does not even get wet!
@DJRonnieG2 жыл бұрын
I first saw inflatable heat shields ("ballute") on Zeta Gundam.
@ysts3452 Жыл бұрын
for heat shield, possible to use a smaller one with accurate angle control. for decelerator, why not parachute?
@jonbravo86102 жыл бұрын
That was a pretty large rocket to Just Launch a capsule.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Big Gemini and cargo module, about 40,000+lbs :)
@koharumi12 жыл бұрын
though the most effective way to get to space would be a tether. like the kurzgesagt video suggests.
@joedizzelfoerizle Жыл бұрын
Yeah SON, light that candle! 💪😎🇺🇸
@homesimcockpit19542 жыл бұрын
I kept waiting for stage separation, and it never happened. LOL What an odd concept for reentry.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Something that's bulky but very light weight has a lower heating pulse and decelerates faster in the upper atmosphere than something that's compact and heavy. The same concept is being applied to NASA and other agencies inflatable decelerator projects which allow a much bigger heat-shield/drag device in smaller packing. Note that every spot where you'd expect a 'staging event' this concept just shut down a couple of engines :)
@exprecordsco2 жыл бұрын
Would this really work? What kind of gas would be inside of the cone and wouldn't it explode on reentry? The animation is great though.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Yes it's similar to the current idea of inflatable heat-shields/decelerators many space agencies are working on today. No since there's no air in space and only hydrogen in the balloon it can't explode and once it's lower in the atmosphere pressure inside is higher than atmospheric pressure so no air can leak in.
@ClinchfieldRailfan92111 ай бұрын
Introducing the little brother of the Sea Dragon!!!!
@IanValentine1472 жыл бұрын
Fab is that ballute lighter than air?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Yes, but not with the weight of the engines it's only MOSTLY lighter than air :)
@Estes7052 жыл бұрын
Is it carrying a Mercury capsule? Or something else?
@iamarokotmanson2 жыл бұрын
It's carrying a Big Gemini. Basically an enlarged Gemini for more crew
@aec0072 жыл бұрын
Excellent animation and cool concept from that era. Sadly at the time we did not the computer simulations we have today, because it is obvious that the payload would have been minimal at a very heavy cost. Contrast that to SpaceX Falcon and soon to be Starship that use a 2nd stage (reusable in starship) to make access to space at a much reduced cost as needed with massive payloads. Also the balloon in the video, although correct in scale, seems extremely small for such large rocket... I think it would have dropped like a rock... not a soft hot air balloon landing.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
It's payload was kind of meant to be 'minimal' in general (note it delivered a Big Gemini capsule and cargo pod into orbit) the idea being a single stage would be easier and cheaper to refurbish than multiple stages. (Still an argument of the SSTO crowd today :) ) It landed like a balloon because at that point is IS a balloon. The ballute is filled and pressurized with excess hydrogen gas from the propellant so once in the lower atmosphere it would tend to 'float'. Hence needing the sea anchors to hold it in place and why it sits almost complexly out of the water. (The engines would have been out of the water too)
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
@@TomTheGrouch Bono's designs were quite often "optimistic' in the extreme. NASA (and others) have done quite a bit of inflatable research and they can be quite robust AND lightweight. No doubt this was pushing that envelope but it's probably the least of the issues :)
@Opusss2 жыл бұрын
Why not attach the fairing pieces to the inflatable and recover them as well?
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
Leaving them attached would create aerodynamic 'hot spots' on the ballute which is just a woven steel mesh and inner hydrogen liner and would cause drag issues during reentry that might throw the vehicle off trajectory. (Or worse cause it to tumble) As SpaceX found out, fairings are pretty cheap and recovery can be not-so-cheap so expending them makes more economic sense.
@caav562 жыл бұрын
@@randycampbell6307 And SpaceX also recovers fairings by equipping them with their own parachutes.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
@@caav56 FYI No they don't any longer, they quit doing that because it was not cost effective.
@watchth1ngs2 жыл бұрын
Logan’s Run soundtrack?
@kaelandin4 ай бұрын
So he designed something similar to the HIAD back in the 60s?
@_MaxHeadroom_2 жыл бұрын
Is it really so worth not having multiple stages that you make a gigantic rocket to get a tiny capsule to orbit 😅
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
In theory? Yes, or so the argument goes but keep in mind that's a LH2/LOX stage which is why it's so big. At the time LH2/LOX was the only propellant combination that could 'close' a case for SSTO, today we know different BUT the issue with SSTO is always that the payload would be vastly smaller than a two-stage system but the argument was that recovering and maintaining only a single stage might (note that point) be more cost effective. And the payload isn't that 'small' really considering it's a Big Gemini and payload module which comes in at around 40,000lbs all-up.
@duho77612 жыл бұрын
So, why didn't we go with something like this?
@iamarokotmanson2 жыл бұрын
There was no real purpose, Saturn V could get people to the moon just fine and after Nixon killed Apollo we didn't need big rockets anymore
@wingsley3 ай бұрын
I just cannot understand how American politics can keep throwing way billions after billions when we could have re-usable launch vehicles like this, making space so much more accessible and so many opportunities to learn and expand into space and find new ways to make things and new resources to put people to work. We are really missing out.
@mathiaslist6705 Жыл бұрын
So Bono obviously was an inspiration for decades to come but none of his SSTOs was ever build
@hawknewbie69152 жыл бұрын
an ssto? but giant?
@Praxonico2 жыл бұрын
Super improvável
@nimeshjain55232 жыл бұрын
Can you do Indian rocket animation
@argus1512 жыл бұрын
Nice I would like project MOL animation
@dogwater4u Жыл бұрын
nice
@NickyLunaLove5 ай бұрын
Big stupid heat shield balloon is certainly a new one lol
@spitfire12able7 ай бұрын
this must be the land launched version of sea dragon
@FatovMikhail2 жыл бұрын
yeah, what can go wrong here? the plan is perfect
@scottmcintosh43972 жыл бұрын
🚀🐺 With one of these, Wiley Coyote might finally be able to catch the Roadrunner 🪶 🌌🔭
@KamepinUA2 жыл бұрын
This is actually funny a bit
@oljimeagle2 жыл бұрын
This guy could have had Kerbal 2 and 3 done by now.
@CallsignAegis2 жыл бұрын
Ok I’m interested
@silverfox86152 жыл бұрын
There's no way that thing doesn't tip over in the water... the plumb drops can't weigh much for the unforgivable addition of dead mass. The rocket motors however should be the majority of the mass left. That should lower the center of mass a bunch. If so, it seems like it should ride much lower into the waterline.
@randycampbell63072 жыл бұрын
The ballute is actually (at this point) a hydrogen balloon so it doesn't "tip over" because it's 'mostly' lighter than air and 'floating' hence the soft touch-down and how it's towed back.