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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on April 20, 2023, 06:43:52 AM

Title: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Rush on April 20, 2023, 06:43:52 AM: LMAO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on April 20, 2023, 07:21:05 AM: Guessing they blew it up. Notice as it was ascending it had five of the thirty-three motors non functional. I wonder how many they can lose and still make the flight safely.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Anthony on April 20, 2023, 07:46:18 AM: Who was flying it? Alan Shepherd or Yuri Gagarin? Are they ok?
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Rush on April 20, 2023, 07:49:31 AM: The whole point was just to get it past the launch pad. Anything else was icing on the cake. They collected tons of data to continue development. They consider the mission a success.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Anthony on April 20, 2023, 07:57:25 AM: Quote from: Rush on April 20, 2023, 07:49:31 AM
The whole point was just to get it past the launch pad. Anything else was icing on the cake. They collected tons of data to continue development. They consider the mission a success.

I read that also. They're just glad the launch pad is still intact. lol.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on April 20, 2023, 08:09:43 AM: "as promised, an exciting end to..."

nice spin. :-/
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Username on April 20, 2023, 08:54:28 AM: Quote from: Anthony on April 20, 2023, 07:46:18 AM
Who was flying it? Alan Shepherd or Yuri Gagarin? Are they ok?
Alan Shepherd would have just pitched the booster and carried on.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Jim Logajan on April 20, 2023, 10:07:24 AM: Looks like it was a ground control ordered rapid disassembly when stage separation didn't happen as planned. Even with five engines out their ground control chatter continued to report nominal operation on the remaining engines. Speculating: perhaps because a loss of some engines means the boost phase has to then go longer to reach the target velocity it almost looks like the booster flip that should occur after stage separation was attempted by the booster while the upper stage was still attached. So perhaps staging failed.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on April 20, 2023, 11:27:50 AM: Pretty sure they'll figure it out.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: President in Exile YOLT on April 20, 2023, 06:42:57 PM: Quote from: Username on April 20, 2023, 08:54:28 AM
Alan Shepherd would have just pitched the booster and carried on.
Jose Jimenez on approach.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Anthony on April 20, 2023, 07:51:53 PM: Quote from: President in Exile YOLT on April 20, 2023, 06:42:57 PM
Jose Jimenez on approach.

That's a great movie. Al Shepherd was the real deal.
Title: Re: “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on April 25, 2023, 08:25:28 AM: https://gab.com/Dissident_Priest/posts/110259424327368498