@S1apSh0es This is just a live fire exercise being misreported by the media. The rockets fired there are clearly the M28 training rounds. That said I did meet my fair share of weebs in the army unfortunately.
@MurkaDurkah I’d recommend not getting the golden boy version of the Henry if you want to have fun shooting it. I like shooting mine but I’m always too worried about scratching it
@dpoddolphinpro@NASASpaceflight New question for the next trivia game yall play. What launch pad was the first Falcon 9 landing pad (LZ-1) built on?
Answer? Launch Complex 13!
@DJSnM I recently learned about Viscous Liquid Monopropellant (VLM) engines developed by Rocket Lab. Patent US20120234196A1
Could you make a video explaining how these work?
@joebarnard I’m trying to get a high quality live video feed from a rocket going to about 10k in a few months. Do you have any advice or resources you could point me to that would help me accomplish this?
@DJSnM If water hammer was the cause of the booster failure, why would we see it after the engines tried to reignite and not when they shut down the 30 engines rapidly? Just a curious guy on the internet looking for answers from the internet rocket scientist guy
I feel I've been posting slow motion explosion videos without stating the most important thing.
This is a huge step forward for SpaceX and hopefully this enables them to iterate further and get the 3rd flight happening sooner rather than later.
My biggest concern would be if debris landed on some Caribbean island and there were international complaints driving more questions.
One last observation - during hot staging the booster velocity drops rapidly for a moment, this is faster than can be explained by gravity. If this is accurate the booster had negative g loading for a moment, possibly lifting propellent off bottom of tanks. It's very short, but still a bigger deceleration than I expected