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Nitrogen 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 bee
by 32faction 12y ago
Nitrogen 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