SRB Separation Movie Link

[Octane]

Hi all,

Not sure if this has already been posted, but I found this tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4RGr8RRHQ&search=space%20shuttle

Approximatey 10 minutes in length. No idea how large the file is.

Watch it, and weep.

Regards,
Humayun

[Shawn]

Astounding flick, whatched it twice,,,Its cache is 18meg. quite a size....
pity that the second blew rubbish all over the booster cam though huh ?.
spoiled the re-entry pics a little,...

[phobos]

here is the view of the orbiter and external fuel tank after srb separation.

http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/wm.nasa-global/sts-121/srb_sep.asx

[iceman]

Great movie! Had not seen a view like it before.

Amazing watching it tumble through space, start to smoke on re-entry and then the parachute steadies it as it splashes down into the ocean.

Amazing. What sort of antenna would it need to record and transmit that? And to withstand the heat, too.. not a ToUcam I bet! :)

[phobos]

I doubt that it is transmitted, more likely stored and recovered with the SRB, would be difficult to maintain any sort of link with all that tumbling.

[Volans]

A very cool movie clip indeed. Have a look at this site:

http://www.spaceline.org/rocketsum/solid-rocket-boosters.html

It tells you all you need to know about the SRB's and how they separate from the external tank and then go through re-entry.

Peter.