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They'll need one that won't turn to a hail of debris and a crater though, that may be somewhat more work.
by dividedbyzero 3y ago
They'll need one that won't turn to a hail of debris and a crater though, that may be somewhat more work.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> need one that won't turn to a hail of debris and a crater They have these. At their permanent launch sites. This is a test site. That the rocket reached max Q suggests this isn’t a problem needing solving right now.
- baq 3y agoIt most certainly didn’t reach its planned max q, not with 6 motors out and the rest with nozzles dented by rocks at ground escape velocity.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> most certainly didn’t reach its planned max q One usually throttles down around max Q, so it's unclear from outside. > rest with nozzles dented by rocks at ground escape velocity Now we're speculating beyond the data. (Actually, we have counterfactual data: it reached max Q. That doesn't happen if you have mis-shaped nozzles causing flow separation.)
- bandyaboot 3y agoEarlier you seemed to imply that you could achieve max Q with six engines out by not throttling down as much. Why does the same not apply to overcoming possibly dented engine nozzles?
- baq 3y agoIt reached some max Q. I’m not convinced it reached the absolute Q value they hoped for.
- robryan 3y agoI think it is a bit premature to assert that the launch pad caused the engine failures.