Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.
His Twitter Spaces was hilarious, basically said "guys, I need to lower expectations. Success is not blowing up the orbital mount, everything else is just icing. Goal is to get data"
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Go ya beauty!
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible
A real-life rocket scientist was explaining how huge a success the launch actually was and how the redundancy built into the rocket worked like a charm.
Amazing stuff.
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@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.
Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing
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@canefan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.
Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing
2x. And 150 metric tonnes to orbit.
A game changer.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible
Just watched it. Agreed it was unreal.
Would be nice if the lead nerd on the panel shut up a bit more, so we could hear the mission control dialogue.
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@voodoo havent had a chance to read anything about it so have only seen the headlines, were they testing something and it was meant to explode?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@voodoo havent had a chance to read anything about it so have only seen the headlines, were they testing something and it was meant to explode?
Someone else here will explain better, but I think ideally it wouldn't explode, but it definitely wasn't a concern that it did - the whole thing was about the launch which was successful, the rest was cream and data-gathering
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@voodoo you can see why people might take that spin...generally things exploding when they aren't planned too would be a bad thing
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@Kiwiwomble said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@voodoo you can see why people might take that spin...generally things exploding when they aren't planned too would be a bad thing
A couple of issues with that statement. It was planned to be dumped into the ocean, but more likely exploded with the flight abort system.
They have been saying all week that it's likely to explode as this is a prototype, not the finished rocket. The parameters of success for this launch was not to destroy the orbital mount or the launch tower as they only have one of each, and they 6/8 of the starships/boosters ready for the next test in a few months.
This was a wild success for a rocket that started design in 2019, incredibly fast progress. (@NTA I think seven didn't fire or exloded during ascent).
This is what their testing iteration looked like on their Falcon 9 landing program. This video is from SpaceX;
So much dumb shit is written about Elon at the moment, it's best to ignore anyone saying this a negative event. It's literally what they are trying to do. They have been destroying these on the ground with pressure tests as well, was that a "bad thing" too?
