Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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Seemed to drift sideways and they tried to catch it but too late.
It's supposed to have that exaggerated belly flop. Looked like it went pretty well, with the exception of the booster failing.
The final version is going to have more than three too, so more redundancy for a thruster failure like that.
Pretty amazing they appeared to get it back to the landing pad like that, thing was gliding.
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@Machpants said in SpaceX:
@NTA Looked like it just hit too hard, that was going into touch down at some speed
Yup
Musk said immediately following the landing mishap that the rocket’s “fuel header tank pressure was low” during descent, “causing touchdown velocity to be high”.He added that SpaceX had obtained “all the data we needed” from the test and hailed the rocket’s ascent phase a success.
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@canefan no end in sight either! insane!
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@Paekakboyz said in SpaceX:
@canefan no end in sight either! insane!
The crash is bound to come, but who wants to bet against him? I only wish I bought a wedge of stock back in March 2020
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Work do on the landing, didn't get vertical this time. Looked like it might be slow enough if it was the vertical to land though.
Looked like it flipped back too far? My recollection of the first one was it didn't get through vertical.
I think it did, just landed too fast.
I think the guy said for SN9 that the second engine looks it didn't relight so not enough thrust to get back to vertical.
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@Kirwan just reading about it and that's what what Spacex have said
"During the landing flip maneuver, one of the Raptor engines did not relight and caused SN9 to land at high speed and experience a RUD."
edit: looked up "RUD" = rapid unscheduled disassembly
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@Kiwiwomble They have the best acronyms.
BFR was my favorite. Big Fucking Rocket.
