A rapid unplanned disassembly!
Now that's some clever wording!
A rapid unplanned disassembly!
Now that's some clever wording!
For engines - 5 is enough? The NY Times video commentator thought it was funny. Oh, well. Not going to Mars soon.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
If you’re not blowing up rockets, you’re not doing rocket science. I’m looking toward to the Scott Manly video on this one.
Just think about all the rockets Little Kim has blown up and they just recently developed one with a 9000 mile range....so they say.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
No one hurt - Drive On!
I remember as a kid watching The Right Stuff and how funny I found the scene where all the test launches were resulting in failure.
Not even going to put a Tesla on Mars anytime soon. That's disappointing.Originally Posted by Glenn E. Meyer
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It kind of seems a bit mysterious why they would launch a 15,000,000 pounds-of-thrust rocket without using either a flame trench or water suppression, preferably both. The noise must have been volcanic.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I think SpaceX got a lot of data to help them figure out ways to improve. The last full 33 engine test they had pior to this, they had to keep it throttled back so it didnt take flight. Now they have a full duration, throttled up, flight test of the 1st stage to analyze. They made it through Max-Q (point of greatest aerodynamic stress), which is the most likely place for many fundamental flaws in a first stage to manifest Solid test. Likewise, they dont need the next flight to succeed. If they can successfully stage and get some flight time on Starship itself in the next go around, they will get the next iteration of useful data.
Good on the SpaceX team.
Stuff like this makes it a little easier to pay the Starlink bill monthly. I wonder if NASA is embarrassed?
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
No one is coming. It is up to us.
Well, it is a government program. No bucks, no Buck Rodgers. NASA will never see budgets like they had in the 60's again.
Last edited by Borderland; 04-20-2023 at 05:35 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
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