Friday, September 18, 2009

The most powerful rocket motor on the planet is tested

The booster rocket that is to push U.S. manned space flight back on track, to the moon and beyond, passed its first real test firing Thursday (sept 10) in front of the engineers who built it and NASA officials who say it's the only way to fly. More...
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3 comments:

  1. annom21 September, 2009 21:19

    Impressive. I did a quick calculation of its effective power (kinetic power): 20-24 GW (yes gigawatt), or 50 nuclear power plants like Borssele running at the same time.

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  2. annom21 September, 2009 21:32

    I just watched this video where they said it has 22 million horse power. That is 17 GW. Strange if the 3.6 million pounds is correct.

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  3. cybrbeast22 September, 2009 21:14

    Maybe it's some weird interpretation of horsepower. There seem to be quite a few.

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