Posted on 04/19/2015 2:52:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Ghost of the past: McGregor rocket test site before SpaceX, with Beal Aerospace
http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2uq0h6/ghost_of_the_past_mcgregor_rocket_test_site/
Here’s a pic showing the BA-810 firing on the test stand:
http://hydrogen-peroxide.us/history-US-Beal-Aerospace/BA-2_stage-2-hot-fire.jpg
Oh, my mistake, Beal started in 1997, and the BA-810 test firing was only *three* years later, in 2000.
:’) My all-time favorite TV spacecraft is still the Fireball XL5. The same track launch idea was used in Gerry’s later show, Space 1999.
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.
Think it only ran a season or two.
Had the old V2 looking rocket landing a$$ first on the moon, etc.
lazy ..... isnt that racist
Except the ultimate goal needs to be not landing “butt-first” but on a normal airplane runway.
They will eventually make this landing. When they do, it will deserve the Collier Trophy for the most outstanding achievement in Aviation for the year.
You are exactly correct when you said “they had to bring yaw and pitch angles and yaw and pitch angular velocities to zero at the same time that they got velocity and vertical rate of decent to zero, “
I believe this was what threw them off on this landing. Perhaps the barge position reference data is not sufficiently gyro stabilized and the slight rocking is confusing the sensors on the booster. They have managed to “stick” the landings on dry ground, though that was from an initial altitude of 2500’ or so.
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