Russian Proton-M rocket explodes after flying wildly out of control Ben Brockert 2013-07-02 | At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan a Proton-M rocket with DM-03 upper stage, carrying three Russian Glonass-M navigation satellites went out of control, exploded and crashed at 8:38 AM local time, July 2 2013.The rocket propellant used is the hypergolic oxidizer dinitrogen tetroxide with the toxic and carcinogenic fuel unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, which leads to the brown smoke, massive fireball, and inevitable environmental contamination during the crash.Edmund Duke translated the audio and posted it in the comments, thanks!"...nav system GLONASS. According to plan it will happen four hours after the start... So here's start... What a sight... But looks like something goes wrong! Something is wrong! Looks like it's going to be a catastrophe... So, rocket heads on to the ground and falls into pieces, and explosion... So, it was a live broadcasting of an unsuccesful launch of rocket Proton-M with three satellites of Russian navigation system GLONASS abroad. Volumes of black smoke soar up into the air..."
Final Ariane 5 launch from Carapa viewing hill in Kourou, French Guiana Ben Brockert 2023-07-05 | Ariane 5 Launch woo
Large sea urchin and ornate wrasses Ben Brockert 2020-10-29 | Another non-rocket video, I know. But I thought it was funny how setting the gopro down immediately caught the interest of the wrasses. They seem like one of the more intelligent fish, less afraid of humans and happy to investigate any disturbances a person makes to see if there are any things to eat. The sea urchin is the largest one I've ever seen, perhaps nine inches (20cm) across. I saw a couple smaller ones a different day and was looking for them, but found this huge one instead.According to forums Cyprus used to have a lot of sea urchins but that is not the case now. I've been surprised how little life there is in tidal pools as well. Anemones are also very difficult to find.
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Cyprus Ben Brockert 2020-09-24 | I saw an interesting school of fish when snorkeling without a camera, and went back to see if I could find it again. Instead I found this turtle who didn't seem to mind my presence. Wikipedia suggests that it is a female because it has a short tail. Sorry about the annoying audio, I thought YT would let me overlay a good song or even just mute it, but apparently not.
Excited Liquid Propulsion Lab (USCLPL) team after their first static rocket engine test Ben Brockert 2020-07-18 | "On December 2, 2017 LPL had its first successful static fire. The static fire tested rocket engine "Blue Steel 2.0" and featured a newly designed test stand/feed system "Hydra"." - youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1S2aVcn5cYou can see better views of the engine firing on their channel, I though the team being totally stoked about their first test fire was more fun. But don't forget to purge!
SDSU solid rocket motor test at FAR Ben Brockert 2017-03-19 | Nice color and they were very excited. A few pops in the thrust, they said they think it was voids in the propellant. Looks like YouTube and iPhone slomo video don't agree on audio sync.
SDSU gimbaled LR-101 liquid rocket project static test Ben Brockert 2017-03-19 | San Diego State University rocket engine test on 18 March 2017. They watched from the bunkers because they are responsible adults, I did not because I am not.
Rowboat tour of Trang An Landscape Complex in Vietnam, leg powered Ben Brockert 2016-04-20 | The Tràng An Landscape Complex is a UNESCO world heritage site in north Vietnam, south of Hanoi. Sheer limestone karst hills are surrounded by rice paddies. This boat tour departs from the wharf in Tam Coc. Once into the channel between the rice paddies, the boat people row the boats using their legs. The tour goes through caves in three of the hills before turning around and going back. Ever opportunistic, at the turn around point the tourist is coerced into buying snacks for themselves or their rower, before being shaken down for further tips just before arriving back at the wharf.http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1438
Flow of traffic through a random uncontrolled intersection in HCMC Vietnam Ben Brockert 2016-04-19 | The basic rule of the road is that there is no right of way. You cross traffic by nosing through traffic until you get to the other side.The exception is mass; a car gets its way more than a scooter, and a truck or a bus will barely even slow down when it comes off a small side street onto a highway.
Kwun Tong Hong Kong from Kai Tak Runway Park time lapse Ben Brockert 2016-04-18 | Road traffic and a boat in Kwun Tong Typhoon Shelter as seen from the new park on the old airport's runway.
Snorkeling in San Juan, Puerto Rico Ben Brockert 2016-04-04 | Snorkeling at one of the small beaches in San Juan. Quite shaky due to the surf pushing me around. Some kind of underwater caterpillar was crawling around on a mossy rock.
The pendulum movement of a split hollow sphere is visually pleasing Ben Brockert 2015-10-23 | A 9" diameter stainless steel float off McMaster, split in a hydraulic burst test.
Hyperlapse up Cocoa Beach Ben Brockert 2015-10-20 | 6x speed biking up Cocoa Beach, with the Hyperlapse app.
Time lapse of landing at SFO, starting at the edge of the Central Valley Ben Brockert 2015-09-27 | On an American Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale, thankfully not piloted by the famous SFO pilots Bang Ding Ow or Ho Lee Fuk.
Swimming with Longnose Gar in Blue Spring State Park Ben Brockert 2015-09-21 | At 1:10 there are two gar and I switch to following the one with more spots. Gar are the apex predator among the fish in this freshwater stream. Above them are alligators and humans.
LOX/Methane rocket engine hard start slow motion Ben Brockert 2015-04-29 | 600fps, i.e. 1/20th speed video of a lox/methane engine hard starting. The purge is on, then the igniter fires. The engine is burning, the igniter goes out, and then a stream of mixed lox/methane comes out of the engine. The stream is lit by the remaining fire outside the engine, and re-lights the engine. It briefly reached 6000lbf, on a roughly 2000lbf engine. It then shuts down quickly.The engine was fine, and was run normally afterward.
Nasa Super Guppy takes off from the Shuttle Landing Facility Ben Brockert 2015-04-21 | Super Guppy Turbine N941NA, the only one out of five Super Guppies built that remains in operation, takes off from the SLF at Kennedy Space Center.
Curious armadillo jumps when poked Ben Brockert 2015-01-26 | Half of the armadillos I see run like hell when they notice me, the other half completely ignore me. I've now touched two of them because they wandered right up to me, and it's hilarious when they jump and scuttle away. The poking and jumping is at 1:40.
Worlds largest plane takes off from Shuttle runway; Volga-Dnepr Antonov AN-124 Ben Brockert 2015-01-16 | An Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the highest gross weight production cargo aircraft, takes off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on 2014-01-16. It flew direct from the UK, loaded some cargo near where the shuttle mate/demate device used to be at the south end of the field, and took off a few days later. On a 15,000 foot runway it lifted off in less than 5000 feet. The video was shot from midfield just in front of the SLF control tower. The flight designation was VDA4403 departing at 12:10 eastern time, cruising at 30,000 feet and landing at Houston Bush Intl. at 13:59 central.
Rocket destroys another rocket in space Ben Brockert 2014-06-24 | The Missile Defense Agency's Flight Test 06b Ground-Based Interceptor launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on June 22, 2014.http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_gmd.htmlhttp://www.mda.mil/news/14news0005.html
Rocket engine throttling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Ben Brockert 2013-11-01 | An animation of a rocket engine throttling up. More info at http://ablesc.com/blog/2013/10/31/throttling-rocket-engine
Infrared time lapse of clouds Ben Brockert 2013-10-20 | Photos taken with a Canon point and shoot camera with an IR filter added, then assembled into a time lapse movie. My back yard in Ames Iowa, September 2004.
American Gothic house stop motion rotation Ben Brockert 2013-10-20 | The house depicted in the Grant Wood painting "American Gothic" is considered by some to be the second most recognizable house in the US, after the White House. In 2004 I visited the house, in Eldon Iowa, took photos, and assembled them into this movie.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
3D Vicsek/box fractal flythrough Ben Brockert 2013-10-20 | I modeled this in 2003 using a recursive Perl script and POV-Ray 3. It's been sitting on two hard drives for the last decade. Today I found it when looking for something else and figured it might as well live online too.This is the saltire form, not the cross form. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicsek_fractal
Rocket engine startup visualization: the first 0.001 seconds Ben Brockert 2013-09-24 | Computational fluid dynamics rendering of the startup of a small rocket engine.The top shows the pressures, the bottom shows mach number of the flow.
Solidworks Simulation animation of air density around a supersonic nose cone Ben Brockert 2013-07-26 | A test for Sugar Shot to Space, using Soliworks Flow Simulation. Approximately Mach 4.9 at 13.7km MSL.No audio.
Commander Chris Hadfield discussed on Have I Got A Bit More News For You S45E07 Ben Brockert 2013-07-06 | Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity comes up on the long-running British news panel show.
Successful autonomous plane flight at the 2013 Sparkfun AVC Ben Brockert 2013-06-11 | It looks like a normal R/C plane, but in fact it's flying itself fully autonomously, from takeoff to landing. This was one of the best flights I saw at the Autonomous Vehicle Challenge, and they should have gotten a prize for doing it with a plane, rather than a quadrotor.
Netburner wins a heat as a skeleton go-kart takes out a competitor at Sparkfun AVC Ben Brockert 2013-06-11 | Netburner gets off to a hectic start before completing the course, while a gas engine-powered go kart, piloted by a skeleton, heads for the fence and runs over a smaller car.All of the vehicles are autonomous, mostly using GPS to drive around the course.
Random autonomous car testing chaos at the 2013 Sparkfun AVC Ben Brockert 2013-06-11 | Between the three blocks of heats the course was open to competitors to do test runs on their vehicles. This was generally the most entertaining part of the entire competition, as people started asynchronously and often accidentally interfered with each other.
Out of control robots at the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Challenge 2013 0x25 Ben Brockert 2013-06-10 | Not my best videography ever, I apologize.
An autonomous plane heads for the crowd at the 2013 Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Ben Brockert 2013-06-09 | One reason I prefer pushers for autonomous propeller planes, it's a bit safer for the stuff you run into. That said, I 100% agree with the Sparkfun AVC policy of "safety is #3".I have this same plane, it's not very durable but it is dang cheap.
Nasa robotic peroxide rocket lander filmed by quadcopter Ben Brockert 2013-05-29 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lunarquest/robotic/13-069.html"The Mighty Eagle, NASA"s robotic prototype lander managed out of NASA"s Marshall Space Flight Center, recently completed a test series to monitor its systems functionality after coming out of winter storage. This latest series included a test flight that was recorded by the Quad-Copter -- a small vehicle also developed at Marshall that was equipped with a video camera allowing for never-before-seen footage of the Mighty Eagle."
Recon of the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition ground route at the Boulder Reservoir Ben Brockert 2013-04-19 | My first video with closed captions. I drove out to the location of the 2013 Sparkfun AVC to get an idea of the course conditions. Hopefully they're planning to fill the potholes.
Xombie Rocket flies higher than the Empire State Building, lands vertically 1000 feet away Ben Brockert 2013-04-02 | "Masten Space Systems' Xombie space-access technology demonstrator recently flew its highest and longest flight to date, guided by Draper Lab's GENIE navigation and control system that is designed to replicate the speed and angle of a planetary approach. Xombie Ascended more than 1,600 feet above ground and flew almost 1,000 feet laterally before making a pin-point vertical landing on another pad." -- http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/Flight_Opportunities_Program/HTML/EM-0111-02.htmlI built much of Xombie when I worked at Masten Space Systems. It is now, as far as I know, the longest lived VTVL rocket testbed in the world. I built the avionics, welded together the frame, did much of the plumbing, and ran its early test flight program. I'm really happy to see it continue doing really amazing flights.
ORBITEC rocket engine on Garvey P-15 rocket, Flight Compilation A Ben Brockert 2012-10-27 | A successful flight test of an ORBITEC Vortex Liquid Rocket Engine on a Garvey Spacecraft Co. launch vehicle on October 20th 2012.More details in the press release at http://orbitec.com/documents/ORBITEC_Rocket_Launch_Test_Mojave.pdfNot my video, I am not involved with either company. I just like to see rockets fly, and this wasn't on YouTube.
Pixel rocket not vampire, mach diamonds during day 2006/09/02 flt 12 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Quad rocket Pixel like a fat sparkly rocket bird flight 11 cam 2 2006/08/31 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Quad rocket Pixel like a fat glittering rocket bird flight 11 cam 1 2006/08/31 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Pixel the Rocket hits abort limits flt 10 cam 2 2006/08/29 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Pixel the Rocket hits abort limits flt 10 cam 1 2006/08/29 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Tether flight of Pixel rocket flt 9 cam 2 2006/08/29 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Tethered test of Pixel rocket flt 9 cam 1 2006/08/29 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
Three camera view of beastly rocket engine 2006/08/24 Ben Brockert 2012-10-06 | More at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=333
