Project Super Orion Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Interstellar Ark
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Project Orion was a study of a starship intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion)
The project was eventually abandoned for multiple reasons such as the Partial Test Ban Treaty which banned nuclear explosions in space as well as concerns over nuclear fallout.
The biggest design was the "Super" Orion design; at 8 million tons, 7250000000 Kilograms it could easily be a city.
One design proposed by Freeman Dyson for the "Super Orion" called for the pusher plate to be composed primarily of uranium or a transuranic element so that upon reaching a nearby star system the plate could be converted to nuclear fuel.
Why build a city on Mars when you can send one.
These would be for the purpose of sending life to another star system.
@@MarkiusFox you wouldn't waste so much material and manpower and time to build something that just might fail half way there. You could just colonies the whole solar system and build a stellar engine
Becouse you made Giant nuclear fallout on Earth with this rocket
lmao
@@ImieNazwiskoOK The radiation on Mars is already terrible. It won't make a difference. Plus, Mars needs a bit of heat anyway.
In a world where a throat of a rocket engine is bigger than the Saturn V
Probably even bigger than the Sea Dragon...
Even the tip is bigger
@@AscendingBliss it is actually
Prob sea dragon can be its rcs thrusters
@@KIM-de3el maybe even multiple of them to rotate it like 20°
More please! This looks like the start to a great silent movie, no talking just visually and mentally stimulating scenes and situations. Why are they leaving? Where are they going? What happens when they get there? Did one ship possibly not make it and fall back to earth? So many things could be happening in this movie. Thank you for the great video
It’s an appropriate silent movie: it’s in space.
*SILENT IN SPACE*
From one scene, it looks like the ocean of the planet has dried out (that's why people are leaving their home planet). It made me so sad, supporting these many launches must have drained the last bit of resouces they can made out of it. With so many ships launched, many more people are going to stay on the surface, waving goodbye to the voyagers and waiting for their destiny.
@@miltonzhang947 actually it shows the earth covered in rising waters which suggests we are getting away from the planet. It all had to happen at once cos we are radiating the shite out of it when they all launch or even just one IG.
They are sending human sacrifices to the sun to be burned.
2:45 nice touch, the SRBs just sort of vaporize in the heat of the blast
Hazegrayart is great at attention to detail.
That's one way to deal with space junk.
Well, its megaton-scale Orion.
I'm not entirely sure they would vaporise, if you look at the trinity test, the tower was not atomised although it was severely damaged
@@samwoodfield7332 this thing is 1000 times trinity per second ;)
03:40
no one gonna talk about how the earth is covered with water due to climate change
man I love these details
Nice touch, but realistically, fixing climate change is considerably easier than building this monstrocity
They should really teach people about Climate change and how it existed before humans did. I can't tell you the number of science deniers that INSIST that humans are the cause for climate change and before then it didn't exist.
Never mind the fact that we're coming out of an ice age. The world is an awful place because you little people exist, now ignore me taking a private jet to pointlessly sit in a meeting room in Iceland to agree to some climate accord that I could've virtually attended on zoom. Climate change is serious guys trust me.
I'm all for taking care of the environment in a respectful and sensible way, but the leftist elites certainly don't and they don't speak honestly, instead they lie and in some cases even outright fabricate data in specific studies. These people cannot be taken seriously, they hate you and I and they certainly don't care to be honest with us about the reality of our situation on earth.
@@OGPatriot03 Climate change did exist before humans but greenhouse gases accelerated it
I fully concur with Patriot, being one myself. I was admiring this video for the concept of a fleet of interstellar Orions, bound for a new world.
@@OGPatriot03 "The leftist elites"
I lol'd
Gorgeous. It tells a story. I'm a huge Orion nerd, so I have one technical note. Each nuclear pulse unit was an a-bomb directing its energy into a big disc of plastic, which would then vaporize into a plume, with the nuke at the center. So the pulse detonations should have the nukes at the center of cigar-shaped pulse explosions, not at one end. It really was brilliant. The nuke directs its energy into a giant hockey puck of polyethylene, doped with something like tungsten so it would absorb the x-rays. It instantly flashes to a high pressure plasma. Given its shape, it expands along its central axis much faster than it does outward. You set the distance of detonation so that the cloud has expanded to the diameter of the pusher plate when it impacts. It's mostly hydrogen, which is very efficient at converting heat energy into thrust. You spray a thin coat of oil onto the plate after each pulse. The impacting plasma vaporizes the oil, creating a boundary layer that protects the plate from being vaporized. Also, the core of the cloud is moving faster than the edges, so your pusher plate is fatter in the center and tapers toward the edges, balancing the inertia of the plate against the distribution of the gas pressure so it accelerates evenly across its diameter. If you make the plate a uniform thickness, the center accelerates faster than the edges and it tears. What they couldn't establish without testing is if they could keep the plate erosion down to a minimum. Some designs called for each mission to require 2000 bombs at half-second intervals. So you would need to limit erosion of the steel to something very small. If you burned off .0001" per pulse, a 2000 pulse mission would shave your pusher plate down 0.2" in thickness.
2:45 *nuclear* + *chem-fuel* combustion, is NOT a stable nor safe way to travel in thick atmosphere, that 2:50 piston pulse effects isn't eighter, chem-fuel is effective by itself only, in VToL & emergency maneuvers. *Nuclear electric* thrust, non-idle in gravity G-Force acceleration rate, is effection in *solar orbit* travel.
Taking a *city portable* versus colonization in native planet resources, tourism travel *even more* efficient, as cycling of Earth external civilization BACKUP *between any scenario* of *both* Earth & Mars or any other ( Titan) *may* happen.
Would a passenger be able to withstand the g force from each explosion?
@@rayeremia6058 That's why it has giant shock absorbers. In fact the detonation acceleration would provide artificial gravity under 1 G.
Perhaps. I believe they also had an issue with radio emission steerage.
@@rayeremia6058 the thing was so massive that acceleration was only a few Gs. Imagine hundreds of punches on a semi truck
This whole video is a fantastic work of art, but I especially love the last moments, with the abandoned Earth. It really hit me that no one was left when darkness crept across the surface but no lights appeared on the night side.
Maybe there were people left, but because of EMP impulses from arks they don't have technology anymore. It's sad and beautifull.
If one day this happens for real, I won't want to leave
@@alertegeneralgilberttaxi3873 it wouldn’t happen for thousands and thousands and thousands of years
@@graullas8981 Well, I was thinking the Amish and other anti-technology types would stay. They wouldn't be concerned about dying on Earth since they believe in an eternal afterlife with God.
@@aliensoup2420 And good riddance to them
Yeah, this is a last resort "GTFO or die" system. The EMP's alone would cause mass destruction across the planet. I do like how you have the boosters on an interstage between the craft and the pusher plate. This is easily the largest rocket you've ever rendered, to the point of being obscene.
How could the EMP cause havoc on earth? Isn't EMP only affect electronics? Please explain(sorry for the bad english)
@@burgham6988 How much of our daily life depends on electronics? What would happen if all the utilities cut out?
The studies showed that launching it near the poles would prevent most of the EMP effects from being felt by the public.
Yeah. Plus, the sheer amount of resources it would take to build rockets that dwarf mountains would serve as a deterrent unless we needed to leave the planet. The shot at the end with the flooded americas also suggests that we suffered some sort of major ecological collapse.
This is the rocket we would use to leave Earth if the world were to be destroyed.
That made me horrifyingly sad if anything, really. I guess I was amazed by that gargantuant scale, too.
@@newrev9er Did you see earth at the end? Flooded and barely any greenery.
probably cuz of the music as well
@@5000mahmud , actually contradictory; the global warming should increase forestation, not decrease it.
@@АлексейШиро-х6ж maybe some other disaster in addition to global warming, bioweapon gone rogue, new disease that affects plants, nuclear summer etc.
Well, if the Chicoms keep starting viral pandemias every 6 to 7 years, not taking any responsibility for the damage - even greedily making money from them -, while destroying the rest of the world economies, and forcing a authoritarian political 'reset' of the Western nations ... I hope Free Humankind go out to Space in large numbers ASAP, expanding and thriving in the Cosmos.
Let the Hive 'Democratic' Socialists fight with the Caliphate theocracies for the impoverished and oppressed Earth!
Obviously this is a Soviet Orion. The melancholic music, and the launch area looks like Novaya Zemlya.
No this is KSP. Just look at the boosters, and the fact there are no citys
@@haydenrueps6866 its KSP 2 (upcoming), on steroids, with every insane mod installed
Yeah they use all the engines they have in there country at once like at the time of space race in N2
@@MrMayo-og9rj Haha noice
@@chandraguptsingh8153 Chelomey will smile from afterlife - knowing his engine save someone even after union collapse.
Absolutely beautiful, even the music was perfectly matched to the graveness of this last ditch situation. The last shot of the earth with the coasts as we know them already submerged by ice melt. What a magnificently executed work.
the ice must come from Greenland and Antarctica
The Ice Must Come From: Alaska Montains, Iceland, Greenland, North Pole And Antartica.
The ice must be made out of water.
@@helicocktor the ice must be in solid state also
As humanity realized that the C02 they were outputting was too much, and that attempts to stop it were futile, alongside natural disasters ravaging the planet, world governments decided on one thing, the evacuation of humanity from earth.
That was hauntingly beautiful. My only regret is that I can't watch these epic launches for hours.
Why
He was about to die
@@totallylegityoutubeperson4170 wait what
Calling this movie "a masterpiece" is a massive understatement.
This is like a work of art, it actually tells a story instead of just being 'cool rocket launch'. I love your normal stuff, don't get me wrong, but i REALLY like this too.
Kewl rocket launch is a story...
First Stage Separation after like 5 seconds into Flight :D
Well yea there already 90 miles in the atmosphere
@@thatGamer12man No, the first Stage ( small SRBs ) gets separated like 1 or 2 Miles up.
Which is extremely fast.
@@Intrepid17011 maybe its just a little push up to get some clearance between launch site and the big SRBs?
They could also be small liquid fueled rockets or small, low specific impulse SRB’s that go through their fuel really fast to boost it away from the surface at extremely high thrust. It is like launching an entire city the size of a mountain, so yeah the thrust needed would be insane...
@@MrMayo-og9rj I would rather go with SRBs ( those are definetly bigger than the STS ones ) and that they really serve an initial kick.
I still found it funny because its so "kerbal" to have a stage separation less then 15 seconds into the launch.
"hey, dude it's the end of the world"
"oh snap I'm not finished with the Knight Rider lights on the Ark Ship"
"yeah, lotsa people loading up, should we charter a bus?"
"no, let 'em walk so they can see my dope ass Knight Rider lights"
(this film was awesome, thank you for making it.)
yeah, that made me laugh.
This was dystopian to the point that it really really really scared me. Especially the shot in the end, Florida and half of south america re just gone, underwater and everything that was spared is a barren desert.
First I wanted to complain about the radioactive fallout produced by starting the pulse detonation drive in LEO, but it doesn't seem like there is much left to save.
Exatcly, this is just doomsday, we fricked up so badly, we need to leave earth forever
Yup. It's a final desperate measure to try and save something of our planet, in some small way, if possible
Plus the real ones might have used Californium 252 - so less mass and a far shorter half-life per device. Lol but then that was a reason they and Project Pluto, RB-36, Mars - earth nuclear engined "tug boat"... were never put into production.
There wouldn't be much fallout anyway and it looks like the survivors are leaving a dying earth.
I would give it a more fascistic interpretation: the poor have made those rockets while only the rich board them and leave the poor behind to die... this is the bad ending timeline.
love the detail of the city lights shutting down at the end.
...and the whole world has gone dark
3:32 holy moly, is this some kind of planetary mass evacuation vehicle? Look at how many are being launched!
Yup, exactly that.
Yes. This is the sort of ship you use when you know there is NO coming back for the planet (even an asteroid impact isn't bad enough to justify it, since you can build decades-long underground cities for a fraction of what these bad boys will run you). We're talking 'Hey there's this blue Super-giant star approaching us, and looks to be running out of hydrogen, too... It should be going supernova right about the time it gets within 2 light years...' sorts of ohgodno-level evacuations.
each one can evacuate about 10k people but requires work of milions to be build, not going work
@@hphp31416 I mean, if you can hide the fact that only 10k people get to leave until the very end, it might...
@@hphp31416 With how rapidly automation is expanding though....
that scene where the camera pans up showing the ark gives me mad homeworld vibes
Kharak is glowing...
Just think this was Freeman Dyson's idea with 1950's tech!
I thought it was 1960s technology?
@@nathanluciow5938 late 1950s early 1960s around then pretty sure. Either way imagine what we could do with this idea now
The idea actually goes back to the 1940's and the early bomb tests. Stanislaw Ulam (Manhattan Project mathematician) came up with the idea and even had permission to test it on one of the early shots. He hung graphite spheres on the tower where they could intercept the plasma from the exploding device and be blasted sideways. He calculated how far they would be blown by just the pressure wave and how far if the plasma impingement created some extra thrust and toss them further. They were found well beyond the pressure wave limit.
The company "General Atomic" (patterned after "General Electric" to create useful products from this new technology) was founded in the early '50s. This was their first big project and it started around then. They worked on it for a decade only to have it halted by the nominal Test Ban Treaty between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The treaty was informal (never ratified by either country's legislatures) but the effect was to stop all airburst testing just when they (GA) were going to start validating their theories in actual blasts. This is all in George Dyson's (Freeman's son) book on the project.
Ironically, it was Freeman's own calculations that killed the project. Obviously, they couldn't be lifting off the planet by putt-putting away from the surface with several 100 KT devices per second. Sort of like this video shows, the idea was to assemble everything in orbit, brought up by chemical launch vehicles, then start the nukes up there. Unfortunately, Freeman showed that every bit of ionized radiation would follow the Earth's magnetic field lines right back to the surface, pretty much turning the north and south magnetic poles into nuclear wastelands.
"Tech" is a term far flung with this nutty sci fi idea.
@@hagerty1952 i think turning snow wasteland into nuclear wastland was low price for alpha centauri colony with travel time permiting going both ways in human lifetime
There’s an alternate history where we’re in the Proxima Centauri system with this monstrosity
Yep :(
Whats it called?
If the Apollo program cost 4.5% of the US budget imagine what it would've taken to make this!
@@_MaxHeadroom_ probably a similar amount: space travel isn't nearly as expensive anymore. Only reason we aren't coasting around the solar system with nuclear-propelled spacecraft is because the greenies are all terrified of the word 'nuclear', when even nuclear power stations cause negligable pollution; and because of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which should really be altered to allow nuclear warheads for propulsion purposes.
@@babynuggetplays2688 I'm gonna have to disagree and say that creating a spacecraft the size of a small city would be a just a *little bit* more expensive than the Apollo program. 😅 The research and development alone for something at that scale would be astronomical (pun intended). Not sure if spaceflight has gotten much cheaper either since the Saturn V cost $2.5 billion in 2024 dollars compared to $1.5 billion for SLS
You've outdone yourself. Take a bow. This was beautiful.
"Cave Johnson here, we decided to send the entire facility to another star system. We haven't got approval on the rocket, so you're in charge of testing it."
In GLaDOS voice: "... They never sent the rocket..."
this is a certified aperture science moment
Kudos! You got the directed explosions part right! That's one detail of Project Orion that lots of people get wrong: They figured out how to do shaped nuclear explosions to increase the drive's efficiency! (And yes, that means that the US knows how to build shaped charge nuclear weapons!)
Soviet already knows that.
There's some novel where tanks have become so large and ridiculously armored that their primary ammunition consists of shaped nuclear charges.
@@jaffacalling53 Bolo?
@@stcredzero Yes that's the one
@@Nnneemo does Soviet have any real equivalent to Project Orion?
I love the 'Last walk on Earth', by the approaching crew/passengers.
A few bus loads of kids or whatnot, but most people are taking that very final stroll upon their home world.
Along with the melancholy music, this put me right into the outlook of one of those people. Lovely.
Can you do the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket? I really wanna see what Scott Manley meant by a "Non-stop Chernobyl shooting out the back of the rocket"
Just imagine:-
1. An average chemical explosion (e.g. dynamite, TNT)
2. Compare that to a rocket engine's continuous ignition
3. Now imagine how much larger a nuclear explosion can be to point 1
4. Now make the same comparison as in points 1-2, using point 3 as a reference
I think Zubrin must've been a little nuts when he came up with the idea
@@pplesandoranges I mean, have you seen Robert Zubrin? He sounds like Doctor Octopus built a space program
@@pplesandoranges yeah. I mean i wont be riding THAT thing. I would rather ride super experemental plasma drive than that thing.
@@erridkforname I'd still trust it before Antimatter rockets though, yikes
Gross tonnage to orbit: Yes
Cost per pound: YES!!!!!!
Honestly in this kind of situation cost would not matter.
To survive, ship cost doesn't matter compare to the cost of mass destruction and extinction.
I didnt think that these rockets would get weirder
You underestimate the imagination of a rocket scientist.
Other than in size, Hazegrayart's other videos show crazier rockets
@@chris-hayes "now how do I add a nuclear power plant+a coffee machine on this thing"
Steel and cobalt with titanium and molybdenum.
Ooh, that took a bit of a dark turn at the end there...
What was it?
@@monkeymode232 the world at 2100 due to oceans rising global warming
I see what you mean. Florida is gone. Georgia is an inlet. There's a huge inland sea in South America. I didn't spot that the first time through.
If you're doing a ground launch of an orion things are bad.
tbh with technology like that, ships that can travel to different worlds. Who gives a damn about the earth anymore
Leaving a comma planet? Hope not our future!
It was theorized that such a nuclear pusher type of rocket would be able to accelerate to a significant percentage of the speed of light
About ten percent.
You have to go very very big for those speeds. Fission has great energy density but when accelerating things to relativistic velocities it doesn't quite cut it. You would have to use fusion bombs aka thermonuclear bombs to achieve higher energy density but even if you fused hydrogen with perfect efficiency it only converts 0.7% of its mass into energy. If you want to fill 90% of your ship with bombs that's 0.08c and 97% would be 0.1c like you said. Just barely possible.
@@sankang9425 Plus, you have to use half of it to accelerate, and the other half to decelerate (presumably as you approach your destination.) That's a detail many people forget.
This is giving me ideas for KSP2! Beautiful video.
as a last resource to save mankind, it is kind of amusing. All those Orions starships, escaping a drowning earth
Not drowning earth but "brown giant" "neutron star" that is approaching witch already destabilize star system.
Not just drowning.
But slowly losing structure integrity.
Because there nearby our system is a very heavy object...
This is the type of content that sparks wonder and curiosity. Thanks Haze! Another master piece of space animation (and I loved the music!).
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun...
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
@@dangerzonegaming5187 it's from a song called After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Chemical rocketry for the initial boost phase would allow far less radioactive contamination in the atmosphere, far fewer warheads and much less heat ablation to the pusher plate. Well done.
Well, seeing the state of the earth in this video, I don't think radioactive waste really matters
This video is beautiful and I actually cried when I watched this. Partially from the sight of such a majestic rocket launching; something technologically feasible and capable of carrying humanity to another star at five percent of light-speed. Partially because of the dire situation the ship and it's launch implies; it can only mean the world is dying and humanity is not prosperous enough to build the arc in orbit with space industry.
That was beautiful, terrifying, inspiring and depressing all at once. Nice.
Nice. I liked how the final set of chemical boosters were jettisoned, started peeling away from the main ship and falling slightly behind, and then *blam* they're just gusts of vapor.
Logic will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere
-Albert Einstein
I love this concept. I noticed that once the Earth's continents were visable, that climate change had melted most of the ice caps raising ocean levels and flooding most of the former coastlines. Great visualization. Thank you.
JESUS.....Look at the size of it. Love how you give it the sense of size / scale when you start at the bottom and slowly move upwards.
You are INSANELY under rated. Thanks for what you do.
My computer is sweating nervously as I plan to make this in Kerbal Space Program
I challange you to land it on the VAB
@@YF-23 oh no.
I'm not crying, you are!
We're all crying
I sure am.
Crying for it's oxygen waiting to get wasted and malfunctions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I believe I speak for everyone involved...that this...
Was wonderful, I couldn't be more satisfied by the result
Отличный мультик. Главное, чтобы не сбылось.
The scene with many "Orions" blasting off, along with the music, made me feel depressed. Leaving our withering cradle behind...
Mind. Officially. Blown. You’ve outdone yourself Hazegrayart. I am......speechless with awe! Slack-jawed with wonder. And heavy of heart at how we’re seen abandoning this world to search for new worlds to call home.
Did I mention your video has blown my mind?!! ✨😔✨
Man, the music in this animation is really fitting my mood today
Wow. Imagine an Alien civilization working on not just 1 megaproject like this, but hundreds. Incredible.
Well to evacuate Everyone we need at least a toused of these.
So many breath-taking moments here! Revealing the true scale of the rocket at 0:40, and seeing the boosters get vaporised at 2:47 - spectacular work!
What an incredible thing. SuperOrion/NPP type spacecraft are well known to be huge but I've never really appreciated the sheer scale of these spacecraft before. A really beautiful video. I think the high altitude/space nuclear explosions would linger more, even using the small bomblets. You'd get trails like strings of bubbles as the plasma expanded and interfered with older explosions. Said plasma bubbles would also be moving at speed, fading gradually away. Like the light of human civilisation fades on the world they leave behind.
Amazing animation, your compositing is always very good, especially the shot showing multiple launches at once
Your visuals keep getting better with every video, great work!!!
That opening scene looks just like it was taken from the Stephen Baxter novel Ark where the Earth was flooding and humanity had to leave. Great job!
Frankly, my first thought was the movie Serenity, from the series Firefly.
When there isn't enough thrust. MOAR BOOSTERS
Every time one of these goes up its like finding someone left a chocolate candy on your desk!
For more background, read "Ark" by Stephen Baxter
A ship that huge would be impossible to built on the ground.
Not impossible. From sea would be easier
@@Kkj657 as i say, on the ground haha
@@calimio6 Why imposible
@@СоюзниксОкинавы the weight for one
@@СоюзниксОкинавы too heavy to fly and for the materials to withstand the huge dynamic loads of a flight attempt.
1:17 aladeen ... Pointy is scary... It should be more pointy
Engineers... Ok we'll do it pointy
Science has gone too far this time.
@@aslanmonahov6238 We can, technologically it's a non-issue. It's the cost that's the problem. No government feels like it can throw tax payer money to send people to the moon, there's a million other uses for that budget here on Earth. Private corps on the other hand, it's only a matter of time until space is up for the taking.
Lets nuke mars. No lets nuke everything on the way to mars lol.
@@aslanmonahov6238 What use would there be?
The only thing I can see that the moon might be of use for is ³He mining for use in fusion reactors.
But we don't yet have fusion reactors that would need a ³He mining infrastructure...
Yes, we can go to the moon.
It's hilariously expensive and there's no use to do so.
So why bother?
Elon musk will never succeed with his Mars colonization bullsh*t, it's just a marketing tool to attract stupid people and make elon richer
@@Johncena-od8gu Someone's salty. Why?
me after seeing thumbnail for 1st time: oh. so the booster size is same size as space shuttle, N1, new gleen, saturn v, starship, and sea dragon.
me after seeing thumbnail for 100 time: oh.
The best visual concept of how the Orion nuclear propulsion was supposed to work. You can clearly see the plasma hitting the pusher plate. Also, the last few seconds of the flooded globe reasons for the desperate effort of poisoning the atmosphere with the fission fallout coming from the thousands of ships.
You are truly an animation god. This was brilliant. From a realism standpoint, though, if the Earth is dead why even bother with the solids? Just light up the nukes at 0 AMSL and simplify the whole thing.
The shockwave and debris would destroy the vehicle. You wouldn't just need to leave the ground, you'd need to leave the atmosphere before detonating the nukes to prevent it from destroying itself.
@@Sammy197 Not true. The US modeled a vehicle like this (Orion) that would have detonated nukes at ground level and it was technically feasible, but not politically feasible
@@10000words1 it probably would’ve been a reality if the test ban hadn’t come along.
It was in the script, because it looks cool.
The original was to be built atop towers that elevate it so the first blasts are above ground.
They weren't too worried about debris coming back at them.
Gentlemen welcome to today's class
Today we learn how to send a entire city to Mars in a single launch
SSTM, single stage to mars
(I know it wasn't single stage)
not mars. Maybe sirius-β...
Seeing all those engines make me have n1 flashbackes
My God its huge
Ayo wtf is this?? mega Orion?
It's a rocket design.
when will orion plus、orion pro and orion pro max come?
It's a rocket concept from the 1960's. It's a city sized space ship that drops nukes out the back for propulsion. The boosters are only there to stop the things from damaging themselves when launching as the Shockwave from the detonation would otherwise bounce of the ground and hit the ship again
@@destroyer1667 True
@@带带大师兄-b9k Who are you??Please dont make joke about Project Orion.It's a *masterpiece* not a silly phone commercial like Iphone
Still can't decide if this is good or bad
It's both. Simultaneously beautiful and horrifying.
*Untitled Space Craft Intensifies*
its so sad the y thwy stopped this project. It combindes 2 of my faverate things. Nukes and space flight
Dude, amazing quality, bravo. This made me little cry with music. I convey my best wishes. Good luck in this job.
Good lord that’s the most kerbal thing I saw!
Me trying to land on Tylo:
Yeah
Yep
uh huh
Me trying to get enough fuel and engines to Eve:
The launch of one of these things is covered quite nicely in "Footfall" by Niven and Pournelle. And it didn't use any rockets to get it off the ground either... just set the first bomb off and hold onto your hats.
This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Approx 300 years before the events in Firefly/Serenity...
Project Orion was one I've been looking forwards to for a while, nice job!
The Orion project was to use nukes from the ground up with no chemical booster rockets. It would have used about 200 nukes to get out of the atmosphere, then it's off to the races. There would have been many chemical rockets onboard, but they would be used for probes, shuttles, and such.
Economics, Aerodynamics, Gravity, Kerbal Space Programm, Size, Imagination:
LEFT THE CHAT
Imagination tops the lot.
It's possible, you just need enough thrust per square meter to lift it. The raptor engine should be enough for example.
2,261kN/m² Raptor-FT
1,582kN/m² Raptor
1,394kN/m² Shuttle SRB
1,358kN/m² Merlin 1DFT+
1,164kN/m² RD-191
1,162kN/m² RD-193
1,159kN/m² RD-180
1,104kN/m² RD-181
1,099kN/m² RD-170
1,051kN/m² Merlin 1D
1,013kN/m² RS-27
959kN/m² BE-4
946kN/m² RD-275M
930kN/m² H-1
923kN/m² NK-33
900kN/m² RD-275
880kN/m² Viking 5
862kN/m² Viking 2
764kN/m² Rutherford
752kN/m² RS-56 OBA
673kN/m² RS-68A
647kN/m² F-1
636kN/m² RS-68
487kN/m² RD-107
411kN/m² RS-25 SSME
363kN/m² Vulcain
311kN/m² Vulcain 2
Not shy here are we? I am humbled and amazed as always! We need a 2021 version of worlds collide!
I'm getting Simon Stalenhag retro - futuristic technology vibes from this rocket.
It won't be long before we get our first Sci-Fi short from
Hazegrayart. Awesome video.
When you need a big rocket in ksp, but you only have unlocked the small fuel tanks, LVT engines and the biggest fairing.
Best rocket animations ever.
Just WOW we can dream this Big.
It would be awesome to see an interstellar Super Medusa, it's Orion-type derivative that uses a solar sail with pulsed nuclear bombs in a reel/rigging setup that catches more of the detonation while being considerably lighter, increasing efficiency even more.
Ozone Layer be like: igth imma head out
Fun fact. We currently have the technology to create the Orion. Only thing is at least we don't need to launch the damn thing and risk radiation on the planet. Just shuttle the parts of the ship then build it on a station then send it to a destination of choice. Proxima is only 4.2 light years away. Current estimates shows with Orion we can get to the star system in around 40-50 years a remarkable feat in speed for a starship without true FTL. Only problem is its likely a one way trip for the crew. Any long range explorer will need to be a generational ship able to carry several thousand people to insure a healthy gene pool and colonization equipment and not to mention it needs sometype of way to have a enclosed eco system, and artifical gravity.
isp of project orion?
Lovely animation, especially the thrusters. I'd have liked a little more info on the range of the ship, max crew / passengers etc but it was a lovely video regardless.
This reminds me of the books:
Flood and Ark
By Stephen Baxter.
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His ship was much more modest, but at the time of launch, the flooding was a lot worse.
Beautiful Animation.
Like other people have said, this could be a movie. I was feeling like an anime for some reason.
The cinematography here is masterful
Nice touch with the Amazon basin flooded and Florida gone.
Can you do mini-series like a Futuristic spaceship maybe? Like warp drive or FTL travel/sub-light travel, wormholes teleportation. Or a rotating habitat , O'Neil cylinder perhaps. See how humans are doing by then, how far have we go, what secrets lies out there waiting to be discovered
This last shot feels like its close:(
This is incredible! Super awesome!
2:12 I was honestly expecting to see Bob float in front of the rocket
And that think taking off would VAPORIZE the mountain and the atmosphere, there would literally be a vacuum under the vehicle
Well, if you need this thing the world is already doomed anyways.
This is beautifully done but so incredibly depressing.