NASA Tests The XRS-2200 Engine And Its Amazing

this thing is INSANE…

Check out this test which may be used in future space missions by NASA.  In the last year or so, NASA has made a lot of headlines with the discussions and tests of new kinds of propulsion systems.  They even tested an EM Drive propulsion successfully which is a “microwave” based system although don’t use it to make popcorn 😉

Here is an intro on the XRS-2200:

This engine was designed to be modular and was going to power the long since cancelled X-33 Venture Star. I knew I had seen a video of this before but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Found it finally through a dead hotlink to a Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) news release still on their server but it doesn’t turn up under any Google or NASA site searches for Aerospike. This video is property of NASA so if they request it to be removed I will do so. It was filmed in late 2000 or early 2001 and I believe this is 80% of max thrust.

Let’s watch them fire this thing up in the video on page 2

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173 Comments

  4. Aaron Hobba said:

    “i have the theory of magnetics too” is probably one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen in regards to the incorrect usage of the word theory. You have a hunch, which if you have way to test something it is then a hypothesis. If you come to something convulsive it is then a model, and only after many many years of testing do you have a theory.

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  11. Aaron Fesser said:

    Fucking$#%&!@*- the pseudo science fucktards are stupid on a whole new level in here. Unless the magnetic propulsion was a poor reference to magnetically constrained plasma as in the VASIMR engine – you need to take some remedial physics courses.

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  12. Aaron Fesser said:

    John Roberts how are you going to make sufficient thrust to reach escape velocity on your magical solar space plane? Better yet – no currently know electropropulsive engines exist which have the thrust needed to get into orbit. Its not a matter of just floating up high enough – its an issue of speed. The best electric engines in labs dont make more than a couple grams of thrust. Chem engines are the only show in town for orbital insertion for a really good reason…..playing kerbal space program does not make you a rocket scientist bruh.

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  13. Aaron Fesser said:

    Josh Young no. You do not have a theory. You have a fucking hypothesis. If you fail to grasp that basic – yet non negligible -fucking difference I doubt you have anything but a vague idea floating around the void between your ears.

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  14. Aaron Fesser said:

    Aerospike engine. Neat concept in theory but not liable to get used anytime soon. Its more efficient over all but the associated risks with new and untested engine mean it probably wont move past static testing. Maybe a private company if the fule savings outweigh the risk but that is a huge if. Space programs are as risk averse as possible for something that straps humans to a mountian of explosives and pulls the pin. Good find.

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  18. Dustin Erdmann said:

    Who gives a$#%&!@*what is it for warren buffet when the apocalypse starts he can fly off sucking bill gates$#%&!@*while he’s sucking oprahs$#%&!@*while she’s sucking on chicken

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  28. Caleb Gregory said:

    This article is completely off base. That’s not an EM drive engine. That’s a linear aerospike, and the video is probably a decade old if not more. The EM drive has some…issues.

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  34. John Touchstone said:

    Joshua dupree sr….. Go outside on a clear night around 4 am as the sun is making its way up… You can see the$#%&!@*satellites with your own dumbass eyes you stupid twit.

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  35. John Touchstone said:

    With regard to your 1000/500 spinning mumbo jumbo… You lack the simplest perception and understanding of physics. Even a small child can understand how an airplane reaches its destination regardless of the Earths spin.

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  36. John Touchstone said:

    Everything is spinning. We are all in suspension and movement within the suspension is relative to the movement of everything else in the suspension.

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  41. Billie Jean Washburn said:

    No…I meant exactly what I said. It seems this planet has learned ‘some’ things…but “NOTHING” important. Just wanna keep destroying the air we breathe, the foundation beneath us and they don’t stop there. They love to pollute the galaxy too. Earth has become a sore in the galaxy, if you think about it John, and just like a human body, a sore that is not tended to..will rot, fester and cause death. So, no, I did not mean to say “anything”..I meant exactly what I said. 🙂

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  44. Philip J Fried said:

    This isn’t a new video it was filmed in late 2000, they haven’t brought this engine back and are looking at totally different engines to get us to and back from Mars estimated to be 2030.

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  46. John Roberts said:

    Yes i am aware of the engines behind theorized in use for Mars and how this one is not being used, but this aerospike engine design is being thought to be used for other thermospheric aircraft and one of these engines was just 3d printed. The video is old yes, but new designs of this model may be implemented on aircraft. I still consider it newish and really wasnt feeling the hate messages.

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