Space-X rocket lands and then tips over while landing
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Matt26LFC
Barge landing def looks tougher to do than land, however every attempt so far on barges seem to improve, its only a matter of time before they successfully land on one.
I believe the next two launches are going to require a barge landing, I wouldn't be surprised if they do it in one of those two attempts
BLEH!
Playing real life KSP. It's a learning curve, but they'll get there eventually.
Koniakki
That's some bad QC on those support stands. Still better than EK's tho.. 😀
They were really close if it hadn't caved in. I'm sure they will make the same mistake next time. :thumbup:
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Loobyluggs
What a waste.
Extraordinary
It's pretty impressive that they can get rockets to land in the first place IMO, new tech, gonna be a lot of quirks to iron out
cowie
man that thing went up in a big ol' ball of fire
schmidtbag
Extraordinary
Singleton99
Mega explosion must of watched it 10 times now 🙂 Very impressive to see a rocket coming in to land like that .
Give them time they will get there for sure , new feet and that thing will be landing good every time without fail .
Solfaur
Quite the explosion, good thing there were no people around.
The Laughing Ma
Was this a whole new rocket or was it them finally 'reusing' the engine that made the successful landing last time?
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Deathchild
Seems to me like the supports weren't strong enough or not balanced properly.
FerCam™
Those engineers really know to do the statics calculations, or maybe they made it a hyper-static structure (the supports) hence the collapse. Even a freeway/motorway portico, that shows directions, is rocket science.
Denial
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10632866_10155280142535131_9066034225079286346_n-627x655.jpg
There is a collet that is supposed to lock, but it was frozen due to condensation prelaunch. At least that is their current working theory as to why it failed.
The one strut didn't lock properly.
Extraordinary
Are they planning on making the rocket re-usable?
Otherwise what's the point of having it land again?
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Extraordinary
Yea that's a weird one, if it runs out of fuel and needs to come back to Earth to be refuelled, it's just gonna run out of fuel at the same point again once it goes back up, would make more sense to refuel it in space
Maybe just a test to see if it's possible on Earth before trying it in space
tsunami231