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Don't know if this comes from SpaceX or SES. But Musk is definitely good at coming up with 'interesting' new terms. See RUD - Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (a
by the_duke 10y ago
Don't know if this comes from SpaceX or SES.
But Musk is definitely good at coming up with 'interesting' new terms.
See RUD - Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (aka Crash).
- marvin 10y agoRUD has been a rocket engineering term for decades, same as e.g. lithobraking (slowing your spacecraft down by smashing it into the ground)
- the_duke 10y agoYou can always learn something new on HN. ^^ I only ever read in articles about SpaceX.
- alphaBetaGamma 10y agoI also like the concept of "engine-rich exhaust" (also known as "the engine is melting").
- tehbeard 10y agoPretty sure he nabbed that one from the KSP community. Also its not so much a crash as the rocket falling apart.
- JshWright 10y agoThe term is _much_ older than KSP (going back to at least the 70's)