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.
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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.
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.
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?
God dammit Jeb. I told you we needed moar boosters
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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