As I understand it, those are (basically) the same engines that takes the Soyuz rockets up still.. Truth be told (I'm no expert but have seen some articles to this effect) the Russian rocket engines where much superior to their American counterparts such that since Russia put some of there political views up on the shelf, these motors have been imported into the U.S. in fairly good numbers.
Just 'cause it's old doesn't mean it won't work. Might not be as efficient as new technology but if you factor in the cost of acquiring(creating) new technology, sometimes the old stuff is still more efficient. Fwiw Jarrett Johnson All grammar and spelling errors, compliments of my iPhone > On Oct 29, 2014, at 18:54, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10/29/2014 5:20 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: >> 2014-10-29 18:34 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com>: >> >>> I think that Nasa should resurrect the Constellation program. Nasa >>> received most of the tooling required to make the Ares rocket. They >>> even installed and tested the tooling fixtures. >>> >>> Having to pay Russia to launch our crap into low earth orbit is an >>> embarrassment. >>> >> And imagine how far we would be now if they hadn't cancelled the Apollo >> program. >> >> I've been reading something about the VASIMR motors to reduce the >> travelling speed and they would be testing the first prototypes sometime >> near 2013/2014, but I don't know if that happened or not. Reading wikipedia >> it says that with this motors the duration of a possible trip to Mars would >> be of 39 days. Pretty impressive. >> >> Anyway, the Plasma motors only would be useful in space, we still need the >> rockets to escape from the earht's gravity, unless they come with a better >> system. > > Funny that you mention Apollo... > > I just heard that the engines on the Antares rocket that blew up last > night was using 40 year old refurbished Russian rocket engines.. (no > joke - Apollo vintage) > > A quick search verified that. They were originally made in the 1970's! > http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/29/russian-rocket-crash-virginia > > I'm always looking for a bargain, but why would anyone in their right > mind use refurbished Russian Rocket engines from the 1970's for a launch > in 2014 ?? > > Wouldn't that be a RED FLAG for most engineers?? > > What were they thinking?? :-( > > Dave > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
