Rocket Sled Impact Test In Slow-Motion

[Music] to ensure the safety of the purity and reliability of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile Sandia National Laboratories conducts extensive modeling and full-scale testing this video shows one of the many tests Sandia conducts using an inert unit to ensure our nation's nuclear weapons are safe secure and reliable for Nike rocket motors accelerate a massive steel and concrete target down Sandhya's rocket sled track the reverse ballistic configuration allows the test team to stream sensor data out of the test unit through the orange cable bundle which is routed to a hardened mobile instrumentation unit that records the test events the test unit is suspended from above to allow target impact to be representative of impact conditions safety is paramount operations are remotely controlled from a hardened bunker all possibilities are planned for specialized emergency response teams standby [Music] five four three two the massive target is accelerated down the track into a test unit moments before impact flashbulbs illuminate the camera view [Music] the event itself is only a few hundredths of a second sensors gauges and quantitative high-speed imaging systems provide data for the supercomputer models at these impact speeds almost nothing remains the test was performed successfully capturing all data as planned you

Channel: Sandia National Labs

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Keywords: Sandia National Laboratories, Slow motion, slow mo, slo mo, Super Slow, super slow mo, super slow motion, large-scale testing, engineering, big science, full-scale testing, high speed photography, stockpile stewardship program, applied physics, physics, sled track, impact, impact test

Id: fvqDj3me37o

Length: 3min 7sec (187 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 17 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/jlazthespaz]

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[u/sdzw]

Pretty sure this is the same place mythbusters used all the time. I also love the fact that it’s easier to test a rocket by treeing the ground at it than throwing it at the ground.

[u/Zimlokks]

Asww yeahhhhh

[u/LordOfPies]

Could someone ELI5 this video?

[u/usernameinvalid9000]

The narrator reminds me of the start of Half-Life 1 on the way into the lambda facility.

[u/TodayILurkNoMore]

GOAT

[u/lordalgis]

good fuckin post

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone know how they use this data for their supercomputer models? Are we just getting forces and thermo data during impact? Are they using the slow motion data to make better FEM data? Anything else?

[u/metricrules]

Wouldn't the kinetic energy be different than having the rocket hit the ground? Idk