as far as crash-landings go, this was freakin beautiful
It was positioned well for the failure but I’m not a fan of the dramatic circling drone shot. It gives you no concept of size, scale or altitude of … anything. The static camera positions we get from spacex are way better.
Lol I cracked up when it happened. The fuckin title had me expecting hiroshima/nagasaki 2.0 then it just flops down like a toddler learning to go from standing position to sitting on floor position😂
that was some impressive drone footage. beautiful
Pretty impressive engineering regardless. I suspect they’ll have it figured out in no time. Reusable rockets owned by China will be a huge blow for American aerospace.
But, competition also spurs growth and innovation. With China going all in on the game, too, we may see more US politically motivated investment to stay ahead in the game vs our global enemies.
No the US is falling in on it’s own kleptocracy as we continue to not tax the wealthy and let the private sector flounder under Musk and I’ll
we may see more US politically motivated investment to stay ahead in the game vs our global enemies.
Yes Boeing et al should be given more taxpayer money to waste like
Ain’t the free market grand
The drone works was really nice. Pretty cool video and always nice to see companies publishing their failures aswell.
Yeah, looked like someone flying acro, not an auto pilot. That would be a fun flight.
The engine cut was so sudden. I was honestly expecting a more dramatic failure, but still awesome to see reusable rockets steadily becoming the norm.
More dramatic?! There was music and everything…
Dramatic like a fireball rising up from the crash, not the drama created by the camera and music.
Might have been an uncommanded/incorrectly-commanded engine shutdown, or some sort of sensor issue or control system integration bug
Article says incorrect altitude measurement caused premature engine cutoff.
Reading the article before posting?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Sigh. Here, video.
People tend to prefer context in science communities.
Yeah, still. Title says video.
God dammit Jeb. I told you we needed moar boosters
Scott, stop abusing Jeb. He’s people too.
That photo looks like CGI.
The whole video does.
This is expensive cgi, it screams it. Not quite sure why they made it but someone needs to be convinced of something for sure.
(Just compare it to any footage of SpaceX landings, this video is far to clean, the sky alone is “perfect”)
the sky alone is “perfect”
Which the sky of a desert pretty often is?
Cope
Overly dramatic I’d say. I would have liked less movement of the drone to be able to better judge the movement of the rocket.
They did a lot of hovering. Are they not doing a hover-slam because it’s much lighter than Falcon-9?
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