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...
Friday, September 18, 2009
The most powerful rocket motor on the planet is tested
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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.
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.
Maybe it's some weird interpretation of horsepower. There seem to be quite a few.
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