Elon Musk Releases Supercut of SpaceX Rocket Explosions

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Elon Musk is demonstrating how one should not land an orbital rocket booster: the video, currently trending on YouTube, is essentially a blooper reel of SpaceX rocket tests that went explosive. While the company has more or less perfected launching Falcon 9 rockets, it is still working hard on recovering as much of the multi-million-dollar system as possible.
 
SpaceX has killed a lot of Kerbals.

Amazing what they've accomplished so quickly. They should just let Musk run the Mars rocket program.
 
That was pretty good. SpaceX occasionally makes me wonder if I didn't switch out of Aero....
 
If you can't oooo and aaaaahhhhh at your unmanned rocket 'sploshuns, your in the wrong business.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
One thing I can tell you: Jeb did not give a fuck.
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The "radar glitch' had me laughing for a while.

I'm showing my age, but every time (EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!) I see one of these land it's like Sci-Fi/LooneyTunes coming to life. Especially the droneship landings, which almost look fake because my brain is going "SHAZBOT, no friggin WAY!!!!"

With LEO sorted out, it's good to see him stretching. At this rate, if the Heavy goes well, Elon could be setting up shop on the moon and laying groundwork for a Mars shot in 3-5 years.
 
Full Otto said:
I'm showing my age, but every time (EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!) I see one of these land it's like Sci-Fi/LooneyTunes coming to life. Especially the droneship landings, which almost look fake because my brain is going "SHAZBOT, no friggin WAY!!!!"
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I'm the same way--no matter how many times I watch these, I get giddy. Being an engineer only makes me geek out even more, because I have a greater appreciation for all the work that has to go into the control systems in order to accomplish this.
 
So some of those that did make the lading target, but then tipped: are they just full of explosive fumes, just itching to explode? Or is that a range safety charge blowing the rocket because it's too far off axis?

Reminds me of a video I saw in school of the many liquid- and solid-fueled rocket mishaps the US had on its way to getting to orbit.
 
LodeRunner said:
So some of those that did make the lading target, but then tipped: are they just full of explosive fumes, just itching to explode? Or is that a range safety charge blowing the rocket because it's too far off axis?

Reminds me of a video I saw in school of the many liquid- and solid-fueled rocket mishaps the US had on its way to getting to orbit.
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Rockets are strong in one axis--up-and-down. Any sort of lateral or bending stress will break them relatively easily. When they break, the liquid oxygen and kerosene escape and kaboom. Fortunately, when the rockets land on the droneships or at the landing pad, there's very little fuel left in them, so the size of the explosion is typically much smaller than what you'd see if it exploded during launch.

The one with the "engine sensor failure" (the one early in the video that blew up in mid air) might have been set off by a self-destruct, I don't know.
 
If Elon gets this together, Maybe I CAN retire to the moon, to work on electronics for the next 100 years. :)

I was really Pissed when Nixon Cancelled the rest of the Apollo Program.
 
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