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It failed successfully. It was right from the word go, meant to be a destructive test flight. It flew, it was destroyed and in the process they learned a lot a
by senectus1 4y ago
It failed successfully.
It was right from the word go, meant to be a destructive test flight. It flew, it was destroyed and in the process they learned a lot about stage 0 and about the performance of the engines and the structural strength of the whole thing.
very very successful.
- ehnto 4y agoI am surprised it's been so ambiguous for some. It is what it is, they did a test and learned some stuff. We can bikeshed all day about how good of a test it was but we aren't the ones sifting through the telemetry and making fixes. There was also so much to be impressed by, the integrity of the vehicle at those speeds and spins was really cool to see, and that it got off the ground for the first fully integrated was awesome. Lots went really well. It doesn't take much going wrong to blow a rocket up, so I am impressed with SpaceX in this instance.