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blackshire 06-22-2022 02:10 PM

Nuri--a new scale subject!
 
Hello All,

South Korea has joined the space club, orbiting its own satellites with its own rocket (see: https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...atellite+launch ), which gives us another scale subject, too! Also:

Until they (KARI, see: https://www.kari.re.kr/kor.do ) really get going with commercial (and contracted, for other countries and companies in them) launches, keeping track of their launches will be easy. They've run a "box-ticking" space program--of sounding rocket and orbital launches--thus far; there's nothing wrong with that (although it reduces the amount of experience-by-doing), but their launch rate has been very low so far. (They have flown fewer than ten sounding rockets [if memory serves], three Naro-1 orbital vehicles [the mostly-Russian vehicle, with a South Korean solid propellant second stage], of which the last one achieved orbit, one suborbital test of their all-indigenous Nuri SLV, its first [failed, although it came fairly close to succeeding] orbital test flight last year, and now yesterday's successful launch--into a Sun-synchronous orbit--of a large flight performance instrumented satellite and four operational CubeSats; upgraded versions of the Nuri vehicle are also in development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuri_(rocket) - Argh...it's one of those Wikipedia articles that will only open after entering its name, "Nuri (rocket)" [without quotation marks] on the main page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page .)

I hope this information will he helpful.

Ez2cDave 06-22-2022 05:33 PM

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I found an image . . .

To me, it's reminiscient of the ATLAS-AGENA in overall shape.

Dave F.

blackshire 06-22-2022 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ez2cDave
I found an image . . .

To me, it's reminiscient of the ATLAS-AGENA in overall shape.

Dave F.
I agree--the Nuri particularly resembles the last USAF Atlas-Agena vehicles (the very last one flew in 1978), which had very long, 5' diameter payload fairings; their Agenas, with those long payload fairings, looked like the Nuri's second and third stages.

blackshire 06-22-2022 05:52 PM

Also, Finescale Models offered a 1:144 scale KSLV-1 (Naro-1) plastic model kit (see: https://www.scalemodelnews.com/2013...orea-south.html ). It was/is a PMC conversion candidate. If they also produce a Nuri model kit, it could also be a PMC model.

ghrocketman 06-22-2022 08:12 PM

Always remember the "C" in "PMC" is for "CRASHER".
I love PMCs. They give me a greater than 50% chance of seeing a POWR-PRANG.

blackshire 06-22-2022 09:57 PM

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Always remember the "C" in "PMC" is for "CRASHER".
I love PMCs. They give me a greater than 50% chance of seeing a POWR-PRANG.
The luck of the Unicorn Folk must ride with me, then (the comment directly below *this* https://www.furaffinity.net/view/18588029/ portrait a friend of mine did for/of me mentions an interesting happening), because I've never had a PMC crash. (I made one out of a 1/72 scale Saab Viggen, and a scale-like one using the Apollo CM from a Revell 1/96 scale Saturn V.) Also:

Although they weren't/aren't "officially" PMCs, the all-plastic Estes Firing Line RTF--and Cox RTF--model rockets always flew true for me, even though--like most PMC models--they were/are rather heavy for their size. I even had a ^very^ short (just ~8' peak altitude), but safe and complete (it looked like the "typical flight profile" drawing--but 'flown to scale'--that is included in model rocket catalogs), flight from a Cox Honest John, when I accidentally loaded it with a 1/2A6-2 motor, instead of an A8-3.

Ez2cDave 06-22-2022 11:46 PM

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I've never had a PMC crash.


Arguably, the greatest PMC crash of all time might be the one that occurred in 1975, at NARAM-17, in Orlando, FL. I was an eye witness to the event.

Jim Hartman's "PAN AM SPACE CLIPPER ORION" lifted off and, at about 25-30 feet, veered sharply into horizontal, powered flight. It headed towards the edge of the flying field and, at about 200 mph, struck a high-tension power line. It, literally, disintegrated into a cloud of "plastic dust" and, to the best of my knowledge, no wreckage was ever recovered !

Dave F.

This photo was taken by the late "Micromeister". It closely approximates Jim Hartman's model.

blackshire 06-23-2022 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Ez2cDave
Arguably, the greatest PMC crash of all time might be the one that occurred in 1975, at NARAM-17, in Orlando, FL. I was an eye witness to the event.

Jim Hartman's "PAN AM SPACE CLIPPER ORION" lifted off and, at about 25-30 feet, veered sharply into horizontal, powered flight. It headed towards the edge of the flying field and, at about 200 mph, struck a high-tension power line. It, literally, disintegrated into a cloud of "plastic dust" and, to the best of my knowledge, no wreckage was ever recovered !

Dave F.

This photo was taken by the late "Micromeister". It closely approximates Jim Hartman's model.
Hopefully the event didn't cost that NAR Section any money for an insurance claim (high-tension power lines are rather expensive per foot of length, and I can see an electric power utility wanting to replace it even if it appeared to be undamaged [what if it broke and fell later, starting a fire and/or carbonizing people under it?!]).

Bill 06-23-2022 07:09 AM

The best PMC prang is this one...

https://forums.rocketshoppe.com/sho...p?t=2433&page=2

I was hiding behind my camera the whole time.


Bill

Ez2cDave 06-23-2022 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by blackshire
Hopefully the event didn't cost that NAR Section any money for an insurance claim (high-tension power lines are rather expensive per foot of length, and I can see an electric power utility wanting to replace it even if it appeared to be undamaged [what if it broke and fell later, starting a fire and/or carbonizing people under it?!]).


It was 1975 ... I doubt if FPL ( Florida Power & Light ) ever knew that it even happened ... "Loose Lips Sink Ships" !

I think that George Gassaway has footage of Jim Hartman's PMC crash, in one of his prang films.

Dave F.


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