Hey-I was out at the launch this morning. There were plenty of people with cameras at the little back road where I was watching, so hopefully something will pop up.Everything looked good on the launch from an outside perspective. It took off nice and straight, burned for 3-4 seconds. It didn't seem to wiggle much, which was great considering the strange motor configuration. The bottom segment fell off, sucessfull chute deploy. The dummy capsule segment then deployed two small chutes, and decended about 2/3 of the way back to ground. The capsule then descended from the MLAS cone, deployed two drouge chutes, and then the mains deployed. It seemed like the mains deployed very low (under 1000 ft possibly), but that might have been part of the test considering it only flew to about 5000 ft.
the rockets are under it,and not on the sides?
So its not that important..they dont check the real rockets...so oly the upper capsule with the rockets will be in the final design..we know when they will test the actual rockets?
just a waste of money?
why this sytem will save some weight (you know exactly how?)for a better Orion...
Mlas can be guided?because of 4 rockets there a many possibilities...