Scott Manley video, looks like the hold down claps may have ripped the bottom off the booster, allowing it to take off.
What makes it a “SpaceX Clone”, is it because it’s a reusable rocket?
That and kerosene fuel and engine configuration (9 engines). Grid fins and landing legs etc.
The fact that any headline with SpaceX in it gets more attention.
Genuinely crazy situation, I don’t think that’s ever happened before. Either they underestimated the thrust they had, or they saved money on hardware. Possibly calculated shear force for the full stack instead of just the booster. Somebody is definitely fired.
They must have bought the couplings on Temu.
When AliExpress is just too expensive.
Y’know, some of these are built so the bottom doesn’t rip off at all.
Well there are a lot of these ships flying around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that rockets aren’t safe.
Was this one safe?
Well I was thinking more about the other ones.
Was this rocket safe?
You gotta calculate the uggas AND the duggas.
How do you even handle that? Do they load an actual flight program for these tests, or does it just go off uncontrolled until range safety hits the destruct button? (Do they even have range safety and a destruct button?)
Task failed successfully.
You should see what happened to the “original”
What do you mean by that?
SpaceX
I don’t recall Falcon 9 ever breaking free from the test stand and launching accidentally…
You are right, out of the bingo board of things that could go wrong, this one they have yet to check. Check again next year, they might get it by then!
