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Wait, did it land or not? Retrieved or sunk? Couldn’t tell from the video.
by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Wait, did it land or not? Retrieved or sunk? Couldn’t tell from the video.
- ipnon 2y agoIt did not land. The plan was not to attempt a landing. But it maintained a controlled descent into the ocean and splashed down upright.
- wilg 2y agoHard to land if no land.
- almostarockstar 2y agoIt sead.
- thfuran 2y agoIt's sean, actually.
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- harperlee 2y agoHonest question, did they sink the remaining fuel? Or did they just burnt all remaining fuel whilst hovering? I would imagine that's pretty toxic. Edit: Thanks for the answers!
- ralfd 2y agoPropellant is not kerosine, it is only liquid gas: oxygen and methane
- cschmatzler 2y agoMethane and oxygen are not very toxic.
- dotnet00 2y agoDepends on how packed the room is ;)
- trollied 2y agoLiquid Oxygen & Methane, and not much of it.
- jstsch 2y agoIt's methane, so not a big deal (like hydrazine)
- bzzzt 2y agoThere was not much remaining, but it's just methane so not that toxic.
- furyofantares 2y agoI'm just happy so many people got to show off their knowledge of rocket fuel in response to this comment
- baq 2y agoObligatory link to Ignition! https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... If you’re reading this thread and haven’t read the book, stop immediately and open the pdf.
- sbuttgereit 2y agoPlan never was to retrieve this one. It was to simulate a landing, but over the ocean and then sink. That looks like it happened successfully... of course we'll need to wait to hear if it actually did things like hover in the right spot, etc. But looked pretty good; despite what looked like some issues with engine lights.
- arrowsmith 2y agoIs there a better video then the one in the link? 90% of the screen in this one is taken up by the ocean and it's not clear at all what is happening.
- db48x 2y agoIt made a vertical “landing” burn and touched down on the surface of the ocean. Then it fell over, for the obvious reasons. How was that not clear?
- lupusreal 2y agoI wonder what happens to it now. Does the USN scoop it up or do they wait for some other navy's submarine to start prying at that sweet ITAR hardware?
- creshal 2y agoThere isn't much to be gained from mangled, corroded remains of what used to be ITAR hardware at some point, so nobody really tried it before. All the Apollo engines e.g. are still where they were dropped (unless recovered by the US), because you'd really need to abduct a few of the designers or engineers involved to gain useful insights.
- lupusreal 2y agoI think you're definitely wrong about that. It's generally believed that the US Navy puts a lot of effort into picking scraps of foreign missile tests up off the ocean floor, to see what they can learn. Hard to confirm from unclassified sources, but I believe it.
- thepasswordis 2y agoIt simulated a landing over the ocean, but there was nothing there to actually catch it.
- mannyv 2y agoGuess they didn't want to sacrifice "Of Course I Still Love You" for this test.
- thepasswordis 2y agoOf course I still love you is not even close to large enough to catch this booster, is it?
- pintxo 2y agoCatch, yes. Float: not so much.
- dotnet00 2y agoI think technically it's just barely large enough to fit, but, the booster isn't designed to land like that, it's supposed to be caught from the top by a tower. So, the Raptors would probably burn a hole through the barge trying to land on it. The eventual plan was to catch these with towers on modified oil rigs, then refuel and relaunch from there. But that has been put aside for now, there's so much land infrastructure to focus on.
- rtkwe 2y agoAFAIK the Superheavy booster can't land on it's own and was never designed to. It needs (currently) the launch gantry to catch it in all the preview footage. It's always struck me as a very risky gamble on SpaceX's part to do that because you're risking your whole launch infrastructure if something goes wrong in those last seconds.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoYeah, it's mindblowing and seems reckless. Then again, they seem incredibly competent at everything they've done so far. It will certainly be a spectacle when/if they can pull it off!