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Wonder if hot staging caused issues with both vehicles or it was two separate issues.
by mechhacker 3y ago
Wonder if hot staging caused issues with both vehicles or it was two separate issues.
- dotnet00 3y agoI could believe that hot staging might've affected the booster, since it seemed to blow up right as it tried to light the engines again for boostback. But I don't think the ship would've made it so long if it were seriously damaged by the hotstaging.
- pixl97 3y agoDamage to the grid fins mechanism is a potential failure mode here. Even a small amount of damage to the flight control systems could make the procedure uncontrollable and eventually trigger the FTS.
- anovikov 3y agoAt this altitude, the vehicle is pretty much in the vacuum and grid fins have absolutely no control authority. It could have resulted in failure later on but not at that point where the booster blew up.
- pixl97 3y agoSaw that Scott Manley video that came out right after that and it looks like fuel issues to engines probably caused it. All but one engine started up, but they started failing after that. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac
- anovikov 3y agoThen it's not hot staging but maybe sloshing of fuel in the tank just simply.
- anovikov 3y agoHow could hot staging affect the engines of the booster? If it affected the tanks then the three engines still running through separation would also fail so no flip-around could be possible with no thrust to go with.
- midasuni 3y agoThe booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after boostback burn following the successful stage separation