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All but one engine successfully relit (the outer engine ring has no re-light capability) but they started to fail quickly afterwards. Scott Manley also has the
by pantalaimon 3y ago
All but one engine successfully relit (the outer engine ring has no re-light capability) but they started to fail quickly afterwards.
Scott Manley also has the theory that the maneuver caused a sloshing motion of the fuel and the water hammer ruptured piping on the engines, causing a cascading failure.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac
- lisper 3y agoI love how at the end of the video the SpaceX announcer refers to what just happened as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly of the booster".
- bronson 3y agoThat's an industry term. Lithobraking is too.
- lisper 3y agoOh, I know. I used to work at NASA. But I still think it's a delightful euphemism. (And yes, I'm being ironic.)
- sverhagen 3y agoIs it a humoristic (sarcastic) style form, or just a very neutral, matter of fact, professional assessment? I can't tell, in part, I guess, due to esl.
- hoseja 3y agoIt's in a similar category to FUBAR.
- lisper 3y agoIt's not clear either way. But as a neutral, matter-of-fact, professional assessment it sounds really weird because "disassembly" generally implies an orderly process, and this was not that.
- philistine 3y agoThe process is orderly. They tested and designed the explosion very specifically.
- lisper 3y agoThat's not what I meant. Disassembly generally implies a resulting state that makes reassembly possible. This was not that.
- Torkel 3y agoRUDimentary jargon