Just wondering... Am I looking at a booster sep of a redstone rocket at 8:31 in this footage?
Quote from: Hoonte on 11/13/2014 10:54 amJust wondering... Am I looking at a booster sep of a redstone rocket at 8:31 in this footage?It definaterly looked like a booster seperation. A warhead platform would not only kick away much harder, but would kick in the main engine within seconds of clearing the first stage.
AMBA called the Reentry Body a "Body Unit". The Redstone booster itself was called the "Thrust Unit" They were separated by explosive screws and pneumatic cylinders shortly after booster cut-off. The "Body Unit" had the missile's inertial guidance system. It steered itself a bit upon reentry using the four "air vanes".
Quote from: edkyle99 on 11/13/2014 03:43 pmAMBA called the Reentry Body a "Body Unit". The Redstone booster itself was called the "Thrust Unit" They were separated by explosive screws and pneumatic cylinders shortly after booster cut-off. The "Body Unit" had the missile's inertial guidance system. It steered itself a bit upon reentry using the four "air vanes".I think you are right, it looks like the view is looking forward to one of the vanes in this screen grab. (~8:40)
Quote from: Hoonte on 11/13/2014 10:54 amJust wondering... Am I looking at a booster sep of a redstone rocket at 8:31 in this footage?What we are seeing is likely the separation, or ejection, of a camera pod from the base of the Reentry Body (the forward section that carried the warhead and guidance system and that had earlier separated from the Redstone booster after the boost phase). This may have been part of a project called "Television Feasibility Demonstration Project" that was performed using four Redstone missiles (CC-2011, CC-2014, CC-2021, and CC-2022), from White Sands in 1960. The idea was to test whether it might be possible to assess target damage via. television signal transmitted from a pod that trailed the warhead by 10-15 km. I believe there were earlier engineering tests that included film camera pods that were recovered via. parachute.AMBA called the Reentry Body a "Body Unit". The Redstone booster itself was called the "Thrust Unit" They were separated by explosive screws and pneumatic cylinders shortly after booster cut-off. The "Body Unit" had the missile's inertial guidance system. It steered itself a bit upon reentry using the four "air vanes". - Ed Kyle
Also reinforced by the view of the checkerboard roll pattern just before the Body Unit slides out of view.
Why is the accuracy of the missile quoted in meters rather than feet or yards? In that era, the use of metric units in the US would seem to have been very scarce.