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Space X Rocket Blows Up On Landing
Youtube ^ | 12/09/20

Posted on 12/09/2020 3:16:07 PM PST by Enlightened1

Here is the video

 

https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6889


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: explodes; landing; rocket; spacex
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To: G Larry

Low head pressure. Determined and fixable.


21 posted on 12/09/2020 3:35:34 PM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Enlightened1

Must has to be very pleased with this test.
Amazing take off, powered to vertical for free fall to Earth.
Engine firing and gimbal back to vertical for landing.
Landing pad target was perfect.
Not enough thrust for soft landing.
Musk is happy. Bezos is not.


22 posted on 12/09/2020 3:47:39 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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Is Kamala even going to allow these testosterone tests anymore?


23 posted on 12/09/2020 3:49:01 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I gotta buy stock in a body bag company.

Elon’s future “successes” are gonna have a high casualty rate.


24 posted on 12/09/2020 3:49:03 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: Enlightened1

Interesting take Elon has on developing space travel.

NASA’s approach was to front load all engineering. Failures were very costly and set programs back immensely.

Elon has a learn as you go philosophy. Everything is being worked in a massively parallel way. If you look at development of the Starship, it’s strewn with wreckage of test attempts. He even switched material for the rocket from composite plastic to stainless steel mid way through.

The important thing is that it works when it needs to. Time will tell.

He has gotten to this point using a lot less money than the traditional method. And he has the advantage of developed computer technology to work all the systems, and record in detail all the failures, for instant learning.


25 posted on 12/09/2020 3:54:14 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: tennmountainman

Green rocket exhaust explained, from a year ago

https://youtu.be/pqCatb2oApU


26 posted on 12/09/2020 3:57:09 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Enlightened1

It was a success. They expected to lose it. the SN 9 is complete and ready for the next launch. Amazing footage. Watch the whole flight


27 posted on 12/09/2020 4:01:41 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Enlightened1

That did do pretty well. But you can see at altitude around T +01.40 where the one engine flamed out, and apparently the unlit gas filled the lower chamber enough to catch things on fire when gas buildup reached the lit remaining two engines several seconds later. They were kind of lucky if there wasn’t any control wiring for the engine directional actuators that didn’t burn through that high up, otherwise that could have landed nearly anywhere if the engines locked in hard turn position.


28 posted on 12/09/2020 4:07:04 PM PST by Uber-Eng (Legends are made when people remember the good things you do and forget the rest...)
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To: Enlightened1

It was heading to landing pad too fast. Looked like the braking rocket didn’t fire soon enough.
But amazing technology, they will get it fixed


29 posted on 12/09/2020 4:09:55 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Rinnwald

Musk has the advantage of 60 years of test data to know what NOT to do.


30 posted on 12/09/2020 4:19:30 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Enlightened1

That they got the spacecraft positioned for a vertical landing was a incredible achievement. A fix of the fuel pressure problem will give us a flawless landing in later tests. Later models will have more robust engines with more than enough power for a soft landing.


31 posted on 12/09/2020 4:24:31 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Rebelbase
"She blowed up real good.

I give it a 8.9

32 posted on 12/09/2020 4:48:12 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: sissyjane

Just like auto racing:

Speed does NOT kill

It is the sudden stop that gets you.


33 posted on 12/09/2020 5:32:09 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: sissyjane

Just like auto racing:

Speed does NOT kill

It is the sudden stop that gets you.


34 posted on 12/09/2020 5:32:10 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: sissyjane

As my law school prof said, “You learn more from your mistakes than your successes.”


35 posted on 12/09/2020 5:39:20 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Kartographer
I give it a 8.9

On the Richter scale? :)

36 posted on 12/09/2020 5:41:48 PM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: G Larry

Sure looked late to me. I imagined a longer burn for the descent


37 posted on 12/09/2020 5:43:30 PM PST by daku
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To: Enlightened1

It’ll buff right out.


38 posted on 12/09/2020 5:58:59 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: Moonman62

Many Governments have blown up


39 posted on 12/09/2020 6:12:37 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Enlightened1

They made the announcement before hand that this launch for for learning.

Expensive lesson but that’s the way it goes.


40 posted on 12/09/2020 7:27:25 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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