NASA SLS Booster Nozzle Plug Pieces Fly During Test - Ultra-slow-motion

[Winston]

[video=youtube;JDuBLdCaxHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuBLdCaxHo[/video]

 

[MClark]

How many Pyrodex pellets were glued to that forward closure?!

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[blackbrandt]

That moment when you let Crazy Jim make an igniter for you....

 

[aerostadt]

This is a cool video, which I have not seen before. Thanks, for posting it. I remember on the old 4-segment Shuttle SRB these plugs were made of styrofoam. I imagine that is still the case. To some extent I imagine the nozzle plug (The plug is in the divergent nozzle exit cone. It may be held in place by some weak adhesive.) was a hold over from the idea that some plug was needed to burn up pressure in the chamber to the get burn-rate up rapidly. (Even Brinley talked about this in his Amateur Rocketry Handbook nearly six decades ago.) In all likelihood the plug acts more as a weather seal. The plug is not necessary for the SRB ignition. Somewhere out there is a video of a Shuttle SRB static test with no nozzle plug and a camera looking down the bore of the motor catching the entire ignition event. It is a cool video. I remember seeing the video years ago. You can see the flame spreading in the forward propellant fins. The ignitor has choked flow with high under expansion, which means that the exhaust expands like crazy outside of the throat (there is no divergent nozzle).

 

[SaturnV]

Yes, I watched it yesterday. NASA continues to hold such an idiotic structure as was the shuttle. Oxigen- hydrogen engines and solid boosters. I think the rockets SpaceX and Amazon are much more promising.Especially rocket of Amazon seems most well thought out.

 

[Cabernut]

I'm sure somewhere there's a video taken inside a motor during ignition. What kind of pressures would there be inside an SRB? I wonder if a solid-state camera with a thick quartz lens would hold up for a while at least??

In this video, you can see a bit of the ignition event down the bore. Really cool!

 

[Winston]

In all likelihood the plug acts more as a weather seal.

Yep, that's what they said it was for in the full test video.

Somewhere out there is a video of a Shuttle SRB static test with no nozzle plug and a camera looking down the bore of the motor catching the entire ignition event. It is a cool video.

Any idea where it's at?

[video=youtube;XIJG0klUVhw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIJG0klUVhw[/video]

[video=youtube;juJhOC_ByQk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juJhOC_ByQk[/video]

[video=youtube;kaGuVRfwzv4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaGuVRfwzv4[/video]

[video=youtube;H0BgLPq6PkE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BgLPq6PkE[/video]