whats funny is they all cheered when it happened. Must be nice to have money to burn.
“unexpected spontaneous disassembly” Was something of the term used.
If you are going to build rockets, “burning money” is almost exactly what you are doing.
I suspect the multiple engine failures is going to be the hardest problem to solve. The fact that the thing could cartwheel without collapsing means it’s built like a brick outhouse.
The explosion was only due to the automatic flight termination system when it got outside it’s flight corridor.
RUD - rapid unscheduled disassembly
If anyone’s seen the special on Elon , he was 1 or 2 more falcon explosions away from going broke. He was heavily leveraged at that point and he said as much. He was so into what he was doing at space x he was using his other companies to support what was going on at space x.
The annou b cers used that expression because they thought it was funny. They did not have a clue..
whats funny is they all cheered when it happened.
The announcers who seemed to be giddy even after the explosion I think were ‘in-a-zone’ because they were experiencing their ‘15-minutes-of-fame’. Too young and too inexperienced to be thrust into that job.
I wouldn’t call the failures it took to reach the market capitalization of space X burning money
It’s the path to succes unless he fails
I think the first rockets failed first three times
Now he’s planets largest payload provider to orbit
Around 140 billion in outstanding shares valuation
1200 per pound per payload or around 62 million per launch so they claim
I think musk average smaller rocket like now carries 25 ton payload
Or around 65 million per launch revenue
I think he’s launched over 220 revenue generating payloads so far
Around 14 billion revenue
And he did it burning money at first
A big chunk of his personal worth
If he believes in it he’s all in
“whats funny is they all cheered when it happened”
They cheered that “self destruct” worked and it didn’t fall all in one piece on something.