"Fearless Felix" approaches speed of sound in second Red Bull Stratos jump Skydiver "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner has done it again - successfully carrying out an 18.3 mile (29.5 km) skydive from the Red Bull Stratos balloon high above Roswell, NM. His top speed was 536 mph (865 km/h). At that altitude, the speed of sound is about 673 mph (1083 km/h), so Baumgartner's top speed was Mach 0.80!
"Fearless Felix" approaches speed of sound in second Red Bull Stratos jump
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tratos capsule being prepared for today's launch
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
Stratos capsule during launch
Pumping helium into the Stratos lifting balloon
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Early this morning, Baumgartner, wearing a fully pressurized space suit, climbed into an eight-foot (2.4 m) diameter pressurized capsule to await launch for his second test jump.
Felix Baumgartner climbing into the Red Bull Stratus capsule
Felix Baumgartner climbing into the Red Bull Stratus capsule
The capsule hung about 150 feet (46 m) below a 600-foot (183 m) helium-filled balloon. After launch, it took about an hour and a half to reach the jump altitude. Although this flight was intended for a 90,000 foot (27.4 km) jump, this goal was overshot, resulting in a jump from 96,640 feet (29.5 km).
Stratos capsule during launch
Stratos capsule during launch
The Stratos capsule rises on its way to an altitude of nearly 100,000 feet
The Stratos capsule rises on its way to an altitude of nearly 100,000 feet
Prior to and during the 90-minute ascent, Baumgartner was breathing the capsule's eight psi (55 kPa) pure oxygen atmosphere, equivalent to air pressure at 15,000 feet (4.6 km). These conditions help to prevent the bends (formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream), should the capsule or his space suit be breached. The reduced pressure and the long period of breathing pure oxygen reduce the amount of dissolved nitrogen as well as the pressure change involved in becoming exposed to the near-vacuum in the upper stratosphere.
Baumgartner checking the inside of the Stratos capsule
Baumgartner checking the inside of the Stratos capsule
After jumping, his space suit life support systems took over, maintaining a pure oxygen pressure of eight psi (55 kPa) from two bottles of oxygen gas attached to his spacesuit.
Baumgartner in his protective suit
Baumgartner in his protective suit
The air pressure when he left the capsule was about one percent of sea level, meaning that his blood would boil without the protection of his space suit. After an estimated free fall of three minutes and 48 seconds, he triggered his parachutes, and landed outside of Roswell ten minutes and 36 seconds after he jumped from the capsule. The capsule descended to Earth on its own parachute system for reuse.
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
The Red Bull Stratos project is aimed at carrying out a freefall jump from an altitude of 120,000 feet, breaking the sound barrier during the descent. NASA is paying close attention to these jumps, wanting to apply the Stratos lessons to potential escape systems for future spaceships.
The final Stratos jump is scheduled for late August or early September.
Source: Red Bull Stratos
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
Stratos capsule during launch
Pumping helium into the Stratos lifting balloon
View all
Early this morning, Baumgartner, wearing a fully pressurized space suit, climbed into an eight-foot (2.4 m) diameter pressurized capsule to await launch for his second test jump.
Felix Baumgartner climbing into the Red Bull Stratus capsule
Felix Baumgartner climbing into the Red Bull Stratus capsule
The capsule hung about 150 feet (46 m) below a 600-foot (183 m) helium-filled balloon. After launch, it took about an hour and a half to reach the jump altitude. Although this flight was intended for a 90,000 foot (27.4 km) jump, this goal was overshot, resulting in a jump from 96,640 feet (29.5 km).
Stratos capsule during launch
Stratos capsule during launch
The Stratos capsule rises on its way to an altitude of nearly 100,000 feet
The Stratos capsule rises on its way to an altitude of nearly 100,000 feet
Prior to and during the 90-minute ascent, Baumgartner was breathing the capsule's eight psi (55 kPa) pure oxygen atmosphere, equivalent to air pressure at 15,000 feet (4.6 km). These conditions help to prevent the bends (formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream), should the capsule or his space suit be breached. The reduced pressure and the long period of breathing pure oxygen reduce the amount of dissolved nitrogen as well as the pressure change involved in becoming exposed to the near-vacuum in the upper stratosphere.
Baumgartner checking the inside of the Stratos capsule
Baumgartner checking the inside of the Stratos capsule
After jumping, his space suit life support systems took over, maintaining a pure oxygen pressure of eight psi (55 kPa) from two bottles of oxygen gas attached to his spacesuit.
Baumgartner in his protective suit
Baumgartner in his protective suit
The air pressure when he left the capsule was about one percent of sea level, meaning that his blood would boil without the protection of his space suit. After an estimated free fall of three minutes and 48 seconds, he triggered his parachutes, and landed outside of Roswell ten minutes and 36 seconds after he jumped from the capsule. The capsule descended to Earth on its own parachute system for reuse.
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
A successful landing for the jump outside Roswell, NM
The Red Bull Stratos project is aimed at carrying out a freefall jump from an altitude of 120,000 feet, breaking the sound barrier during the descent. NASA is paying close attention to these jumps, wanting to apply the Stratos lessons to potential escape systems for future spaceships.
The final Stratos jump is scheduled for late August or early September.
Source: Red Bull Stratos
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...space-elevator (orbital station ramp)… Faraway high beyond Earth surface at 150,000 kms...fast orbital speed 11.4 kms/sec...with only 0.08g centrifugal, 0.8 mts/sec² (somebody who has 80 kgs gravitational force on Earth equator radius=6378.1 kms; over there with a radius=156378.1 kms only has 6.64 kgs centrifugal force...gravitational force downwards minus centrifugal force upwards)...could be, if someday is cheap the maglev-track, the counterweight Terminal Orbital Station-Ramp… Awaits passengers in Earth-Station a hyperspeed vertical electric Train of Magnetic Levitation… "Spatial Train coming from Orbital Station-Ramp and Orbital Station-Wheel at these moments arriving will depart again after one hour, passengers with Moon destination please embark on SHIP-COACH when will be hooked at Train´s end, this Sunday normal service will be stopped by celebration of Parachuting World Championship jumping from 100 kms height"... (((if Train´s mass=10 Tm and its vertical max-speed=10000 kms/h... CORIOLIS EFFECT AGAINST TRACK downwards to East, upwards to West: acceleration=0.4 mts/sec², FORCE=0.41 Tm... How Track is attached on Earth´s equator, this Lateral Thrust occur in the same orbital plane, orbit forward or backward, and thus almost there are Not Precession´s problems in the system...except because due to slight cyclic oscillation (nutation and precession) of Earth´s axis, would that doing each a certain time some correction, with their own axial maneuver´s rockets, for reorientation of Wheel´s axis)))… medium-speed = 5,000 kms/hour: Earth/Orbital Station-Wheel, distance = 35,786 kms...total travel time = 7 hours… Orbital Station-Wheel/Orbital Station-Ramp, distance = 114,214 kms...total travel time = 23 hours… Well seized from retractable cogwheels, with slow-speed at the beginning travel of strong gravitation from Earth, with conventional Zipper-Track: MAGLEV-ON... COGWHEELS-ON... THE TRAIN DEPARTS>>...
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