youtube.com - 11/3/2009
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An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares I-X test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the v...
wiki.nasa.gov - 11/5/2009
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Constellation program managers agreed to reevaluate the proposed
Ares I-Y flight test during an Oct. 30 Control...
Board and plan to take the decision up the ladder to management at NASA Headquarters soon. The decision could result in the removal of the ...
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Managers reevaluating Ares I-Y flight test
spacefellowship.com - 11/5/2009
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Written by Nancy Atkinson Just one week after
the first test flight test of the Ares I-X...
rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn’t scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight because, currently, there ...
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NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight
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Video: Aerial View of Ares I-X Flight Test
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Chase Plane Footage of Ares I-X Flight
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Here's some great additional footage from the Ares I-X flight taken from a chase plane, which shows the entire flight, including booster separation and parachute deploy — and the problems that happened with the parachutes. The video was taken from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at an altitude of 12,000 feet. The videographer used a gyro-stabilized high-definition camera system mounted to the outside of the aircraft to capture this spectacular footage which provides extremely valuable engineering data, and imagery of the recovery sequence in ...
Chase Plane Footage of Ares I-X Flight
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Written by Nancy Atkinson Here’s some great additional footage from the Ares I-X flight taken from a chase plane, which shows the entire flight, including booster separation and parachute deploy — and the problems that happened with the parachutes. The video was taken from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at an altitude of 12,000 feet. The videographer used a gyro-stabilized high-definition camera system mounted to the outside of the aircraft to capture this spectacular footage which provides extremely valuable engineering data, and imagery of the recovery sequence in rarely-seen detail. This provides NASA ...
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