To: jz638
The science-ignorant media just sees the flames at the event and wants to laugh at Musk.
Right. SpaceX just launched a booster with twice the thrust of anything ever flown and had it hold together for 4 minutes.
I'd say that was pretty good.
17 posted on
04/20/2023 8:54:42 AM PDT by
BikerJoe
To: BikerJoe
As I posted else where....
Partial postmortem..... Raptor exploded causing the APU which provides hydraulics to gimbal the engines blew.. total loss of engine control which caused the tumble ... failure to separate also due to holding pins being hydrophilic also.
from Nasa Space flight youtube feed
29 posted on
04/20/2023 9:06:17 AM PDT by
Robe
(A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: BikerJoe
Exactly
everyone just reads the headlines
67 posted on
04/20/2023 10:51:21 AM PDT by
Donnafrflorida
(Thru Him all things are possible.)
To: BikerJoe
Especially considering that the Soviet Union wasn’t able to even get it’s multi-engine rocket off the launch pad.🤨
86 posted on
04/20/2023 12:42:20 PM PDT by
BiteYourSelf
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