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The Falcon 9 does have attitude control system towards the top: the nitrogen cold gas thrusters in the Reaction Control System is located in the interstage port
by shasheene 12y ago
The Falcon 9 does have attitude control system towards the top: the nitrogen cold gas thrusters in the Reaction Control System is located in the interstage portion of the vehicle - right at the top of the first stage
The gimballing engines give attitude control at the bottom, as far as I understand
- 32faction 12y agoNitrogen cold gas thrusters don't give enough "oomph". Maybe if the rocket was inclined at angles x<10 degrees with respect to the vertical axis it would've been able to correct but this rocket was leaned over at what seems to be 20<x<=45 deg. In other words they wouldn't of have been powerful enough to correct that much of a drastic lean the Falcon had coming down. But I'm sure with the hydraulic fluid corrections a stronger control system won't be needed to fix large angles of attack but it would be nice to have as an emergency system. "Have it and not need it/Need it don't Have it" really doesn't work with rockets because of the mass requirements