Ascent-Abort 2

August 01, 2019

My kind of firework. Part ICBM, part test flight, $256,000,000 a shot.

Falcon 9 Booster 1063’s 9 Merlin 1D engines.

FLOODED

Static Fire of Northrop Grumman’s Flight Support Booster 2. This is the world’s largest solid rocket booster, producing 3.6 million pounds of thrust, just roasting a hillside in Promontory, Utah for science. Full video on @nasaspaceflight_ig’s YouTube channel.

Up and Out #F18 #full_afterburner #sidewinderlowlevel #heatdistortion

When the pilot looks right at you while doing 500 knots at 300 ft. Not much better.

A C-17 flying the Sidewinder low level route through Death Valley last week. #sidewinderlowlevel

The explosive first launch of Firefly’s Alpha rocket - One of four engines shut down early just after liftoff, resulting in a slower than nominal ascent and eventual loss of control of the vehicle as it hit Max Q. Range safety officers detonated the rocket using the flight termination system as a safety measure.

☢️ CONTAMINATION AREA ☢️ This is the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Pile, basically a unlined waste pond from a uranium mill next to the Colorado River in Moab, UT. Neat.

L A N D R O V E R - 🎵 is Night Patrol by @fm_skyline. I shot this footage forever ago and finally felt like finishing the edit and posting it. Enjoy.

An Energomash RD-180 engine muscling an Atlas V rocket off the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base’s SLC-3.