The Ares I-X flight is the first of three planned test flights for the Ares I rocket.

本次试飞的“战神i - X”是“战神i”火箭的三个飞行试验计划中的第一个。

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The Ares I-X weighs 1.8 million pounds (816,466 kg), slightly less than the full Ares I rocket.

战神i - X火箭则重达1.8万磅(816466公斤)，略低于装满燃料的战神i火箭。

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The rocket is Ares I-X? A suborbital prototype for the Ares I rocket NASA plans to use to launch its shuttle successor, the Orion spacecraft.

这次发射的火箭“战神i - X”是“战神i”(Ares I)的亚轨道原型机，美国国家航空航天局计划使用“战神i”发射猎户座太空船。

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The proposed Ares I rocket and its crew carrier called Orion are both at an advanced stage.

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It is up to Barack Obama to make a final decision based on the options presented by the panel, but none of the options considered viable includes the default path, the shuttle-derived Ares I rocket and Orion spacecraft, to service the space station.

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Yet now that the Shuttle has been scuttled and a proposed Ares I Constellation rocket program has been canceled, other than hitching Russian taxi rides, our astronauts currently have no way to get there and back.

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