Rocket Launch without the Rocket

6 responses to “Rocket Launch without the Rocket”

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   jurvetson

   Jul 29, 2013 at 12:09 am

   The next frame by Jacson Lubin… You can start to see a bit of the tail end…
   

   and off she goes
   

   But then all of the fins rip off in a supersonic shred overhead…
   

   Maney and his scorched rocket remains… with all of the fins missing on the right side…
   
   (it’s hard to keep those on with a minimum-diameter airframe design)

   I saw a similar vertical fireball on the first day, experimenting with a hand-held 800mm zoom:
   

   And it popped out of there like a Phoenix from the flames…
   
   With a vertical column of smoke rebounding upward

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   thepretenda

   Jul 29, 2013 at 1:58 am

   Looks like a missile silo launch!

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   js.brain

   Jul 29, 2013 at 7:23 pm

   Waited for those shots. Launch without a Rocket, is this possible? 🙂

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   jurvetson

   Jul 29, 2013 at 7:53 pm

   heh… makes me wonder.

   @Giovanni Portelli — Yeah, here’s a photo a friend took of an Super Arcas tube launch… in Antarctica!

   

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   js.brain

   Jul 30, 2013 at 2:04 am

   Agreed the photo shall include the Rocket. As phoenix from the flames, in supersonic speed, the Rocket appears!

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   Aksrockets

   Aug 2, 2013 at 12:36 am

   Manny’s Rocket actually had 3 Layers of Carbon Fiber T2T. Mach 3 didn’t care. It took them right off.
   Here is the video I got of the launch.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAEEQPQC1Y

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