Well it launched, several of the raptors flamed out, it started "gyrating" and they blew it up before second stage separation.
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I hope they got good data anyway.
You could see a "sector" of raptor motors were out in the up the skirt shots. Mebby more than 6? pretty hard to counter steer that much unbalanced thrust. An issue upstream of the motors themselves?
Wales does it again today, but warmer:
There was not a cloud in the sky to be seen here on the back road from Pen y Fan to Penderyn. Rain forecast for tomorrow.
There was not a cloud in the sky to be seen here on the back road from Pen y Fan to Penderyn. Rain forecast for tomorrow.
Well, I would be naive enough to think exploding four minutes after launch was a failure. But the commentator said anything after clearing the tower was a bonus. So I'm with Marty, hope they got some good data.
Strap yourself to the top of a 400-foot liquid fuel rocket and hope it all works this time? Not me.
Strap yourself to the top of a 400-foot liquid fuel rocket and hope it all works this time? Not me.
You "Photoshopped" that, didn't you? LOL
I watched it and it was very exciting. Biggest firework rocket I have ever seen when it blew apart at the end.
Will ain't life a bitch and just set on making a liar out of you...
It certainly isn't raining in Wales today. Check out that sky...
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Rare atmospheric formomina event in Wales Tuesday 18th of April 2003. Blue sky was seen, some children had never seen such an event in their lives refusing to leave the safety of their house were seen peering out from doors and windows.
And again on Friday 21st of April 2003. Children were seen playing outside without a raincoat
This link might be blocked by a pay wall or regional thang but gives background to India's launch earlier today of a moon lander, rover and orbiter. Worth having a look for.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...aan-3-blasts-into-space-historic-moon-mission
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...aan-3-blasts-into-space-historic-moon-mission
Yeah... um.... that never happens to me.I get sucked into them on YouTube!
Youtube can be like the deepest of deep rabbit holes.
I tend to start watching a subject later in the evening after the wife is asleep and the house is quiet...next thing you know, its way past bedtime!
I tend to start watching a subject later in the evening after the wife is asleep and the house is quiet...next thing you know, its way past bedtime!
Ditto. Once went through a series of films with some guy making a blast furnace in his yard. So he could try and make his own steel. Dry sense of humour. After blast furnace #1 failed to meet his hopes, built blast furnace #2, which he said was an evolution of #1. Or was it just intelligent design?
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