SpaceX is the NASCAR of Space launch companies.
The whole deal is an embedded systems problem.
Believe me. This is a complicated problem...when they work it out it will shave mucho $$$ from the cost of a space launch.
It is ROCKET SCIENCE after all....
If I may translate:
It descended too fast because a sticky throttle valve limited the thrust required to slow the descent sufficient for the horizontal thrusters to maintain a vertical attitude and a soft landing.
If he’s so rich, why ain’t he smart?
;-)
Goddard knew that. Con Braun knew that.
They spent all this dough and just now realize.. Oops.
I’m sure Musk will have no problem sucking, er, up to Obama for more handouts in order to fix it.
A real capitalist would risk his own money with investor backing instead of shoving the risk onto the taxpayers...
Calling that a FAIL is ridiculous, makes the author look ignorant.
I think he came incredibly close to pulling it off, and I would bet that he will do it in the next couple of tries.
The transient response of the rocket guidance system looked very good to me. Remarkably good.
The software that controls that rocket has to bring the solutions of five or six differential equations all to zero at exactly the same instant in time. Being off by even a tiny fraction on any one of them results in failure. Even the slightest hang-up in any mechanical part will probably be unrecoverable.
A larger pad would cut down on the need for lateral positioning. Seems like they missed the pad, had to juke to one side, and lost control in the process. If the barge/landing area was larger, maybe they could have saved it.
Isn‘t Elon Musk an aftershave lotion from the 1970s?
They should higher me, I know how to adjust throttle springs.
I am 51 and too many jobs in the Obama economy and I can’t get anybody to higher me now.
lazy ..... isnt that racist