SpaceX rocket launches, then explodes minutes later, on first test flight

[Shibadog]

On 4/21/2023 at 6:01 PM, Voodooman said:

Not mocking SpaceX but kinda strange to self congratulate and "cheered wildly as the rocket cleared the launch tower, and again when it blew up in the sky.". 

Maybe that is why US is leading the world in space technology. 

失败是成功之母.

depends on how the goals (test targets) were defined. 

they probably now busy analyzing the data collected from this event. It's all part of the development program.

 

[inlinesix]

 

[BabyBlade]

On 4/22/2023 at 9:38 AM, inlinesix said:

 

So much for climate change and carbon neutral projects haha. One blast is all it takes. Perhaps this is a sign to limit our destruction to Earth and leave Mars alone. 

[inlinesix]

On 4/24/2023 at 2:35 PM, BabyBlade said:

So much for climate change and carbon neutral projects haha. One blast is all it takes. Perhaps this is a sign to limit our destruction to Earth and leave Mars alone. 

1st stage rocket got 30 engines.  Not all light up

[Ender]

Elon Musk just posted this on twitter. Unbelievable that this type of rocket landing is possible. I am no rocket scientist, don't know if he is trolling us.

 

[Playtime]

On 6/26/2024 at 3:40 PM, Ender said:

Elon Musk just posted this on twitter. Unbelievable that this type of rocket landing is possible. I am no rocket scientist, don't know if he is trolling us.

 

yeah... sometimes wonder if real of some new video games footage. unbelivable.

[Beregond]

Meanwhile nasa 2 astronauts are still struck on ISS  after helium leakage detected on a numbers of dun know what valves🤕

[Ender]

It on the news, these booster rockets really landed in that sci-fi manner.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-falcon-heavy-booster-landings-230717736.html

SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster landings, sonic booms wow Kennedy Space Center launch fans

 

 

 

[Stratovarius]

Is this something new? I watched a video about this a few years ago.

 

 

[Ender]

On 6/26/2024 at 4:54 PM, Stratovarius said:

Is this something new? I watched a video about this a few years ago.

 

 

Oh, it's not new. Guess I am sua ku. 😅 Really was unbelievable when I saw Elon's post today.

[mersaylee]

His ultimate objective is to do multiple trips back and forth between mars and earth in the best economical way to bring back precious cargo...hope he is able to exclude bacteria, virus and alien...😂

[Sosaria]

On 6/26/2024 at 3:40 PM, Ender said:

Elon Musk just posted this on twitter. Unbelievable that this type of rocket landing is possible. I am no rocket scientist, don't know if he is trolling us.

 

Not new tech. But it was pioneered by Musk and his engineers. The rocket basically guides itself to a vertical soft landing using just the small guidance fins to steer. A lot of tests before it becomes reliable and successful. You can watch the early failures on YouTube. 

This is how Space X cuts cost, by re-using even the booster rockets (usually jettisoned during launch and not recoverable or burn up in the atmosphere ). Though if not mistaken, the space shuttle side boosters are parachuted down to the sea and recovered by ships. Space X went one better, the used boosters park themselves

 

[Playtime]

On 6/26/2024 at 7:08 PM, Sosaria said:

Though if not mistaken, the space shuttle side boosters are parachuted down to the sea and recovered by ships. Space X went one better, the used boosters park themselves

Can imagine even recover without damage, the cleaning of salt water itself is a big job... not to mention the cost and trouble of sea closure and ships.

the huge boosters basically reversing perfectly balanced to a parking lot is still kinda unbelivable to me. ... essentially they can also deliver a nuke to your carpark lot.🤔

Elon was asked why spacex not diverse in hiring FTs... he answered they are essentially building ICBMs, US govt decide who can work there.

[Lala81]

I believe this self retrieval has already been done on their previous rocket. But just that the Falcon rocket boosters is a new one, and the biggest to date.  

[Ender]

Seems like Twitter has been feeding me base on my search pattern recently. How irresponsible China rocket scientist takes care for their boosters, didn't even bother to parachute or detach from main rocket at safe distance from populated area. Apparently not the first time from the news.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/video-shows-villagers-running-huge-135406905.html

Huge Chinese Rocket Parts Fall on Village, Spewing Toxic Chemicals

Victor Tangermann

Mon, 24 June 2024 at 9:54 pm SGT·2-min read

Reckless Endangerment

Images and a terrifying video circulating on social media show what appears to be debris from a Chinese rocket coming crashing down over a village in southwest China, resulting in a massive cloud of unnervingly yellow smoke.

One clip shows distressed villagers running away from a giant piece of rocket dropping out of the sky, leaving a bright orange trail of smoke in its wake in the distance.

The footage was shared not long after a Long March 2C rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's Sichuan province, delivering a satellite into orbit.

It's far from the first time we've seen debris from such a launch making an uncontrolled descent over populated areas. In January, for instance, a pair of rocket boosters of a Chinese Long March 3B rocket crashed down in a forested and inhabited area, erupting in massive fireballs.

The phenomenon has led to outrage from the international space community, with NASA administrator Bill Nelson releasing a statement back in 2021 accusing China of "failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris."

Worse yet, as CNN reports, local residents were "strictly forbidden" to "spread relevant videos online" in a notice, suggesting officials are trying to downplay the very real dangers of the chaotic and fast-moving space program.

https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status/1804859855955787810

 

Raining Rockets

It's unclear if anybody got hurt in the latest incident. Eyewitnesses told CNN that "there was a pungent smell and the sound of an explosion." Local villagers were also told to scatter and observe the open sky ahead of the launch to make sure they wouldn't get hurt.

The yellow and orange smoke being expelled by the rocket debris is "extremely toxic and carcinogenic," as Stockholm International Peace Research Institute senior researcher Markus Schiller told CNN. "Every living being that inhales that stuff will have a hard time in the near future."

Instead of launching their rockets from inland like China, NASA and the European Space Agency launch their rockets from the coast, where rocket parts have a much higher chance of harmlessly dropping into the ocean.

SpaceX has also developed reusable rocket boosters that return to the launch pad, foregoing these risks almost entirely.

Meanwhile, China has repeatedly made headlines for allowing its rockets to plummet down over inhabited areas, a considerable liability and embarrassment to its ambitious space program.

It's a callous approach to delivering payloads into orbit, especially considering the many ways such risks could be averted.

"I expect that we’ll see something like that for quite a while, for many years to come," Schiller told CNN.

[Ender]

8 days later,

 

[Ender]

 

 

Edited October 13, 2024 by Ender

[Ender]

On 10/13/2024 at 10:39 PM, Ender said:

 

 

 

This video even more exciting.