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It actuallyoriented perfectly, but due to the flip, fuel pressure was lost leading an oxygen rich exhaust eating away the engine (becoming what's known as engin
by tenuousemphasis 6y ago
It actuallyoriented perfectly, but due to the flip, fuel pressure was lost leading an oxygen rich exhaust eating away the engine (becoming what's known as engine rich exhaust) before it was able to complete the landing burn. They should just have to fix the fuel pressure problem to have a complete success.
- Koiwai 6y agoI'm very dumb so I'm asking: is "engine rich exhaust" a real term?
- jholman 6y agoWhat do you mean by "real term"? Real rocket science teams really use phrases like this, including this one. Is it a joke? Yeah, kind of. Is it what they would say if they had no sense of humour? No, probably not. Is it still a thing the experts actually say to actually talk about what's going on? Yeah, it is. a few more examples: "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" : explosive destruction of the rocket "Lithobraking" : it's like aerobraking, but with less aero and more litho