Elon’s latest grain silo went full Kerbal, spinning and all.
Stage Separation Failure supposedly, but frankly it was looking bad long before that.
me when im this rocket: :walter-breakdown:
420 blaze it
this is what communist regulation does.
It sure did lose a lot of engines. It also appeared to be doing that slewing thing where the rocket appears to be flying sideways (relative to its attitude) due to a lack of thrust. Really it looked like one of my over ambitious KSP attempts.
I’ve always felt N1 vibes from the booster stage. Having 30+ (still powerful) engines all firing at once gives you a lot of points for failure.
Obviously, it did beat out the N1 by being able to clear the pad, but even if they can compensate for the failures of a few (3-5) engines per flight, that bodes ill for the re-usability of the craft.
Obviously, it did beat out the N1 by being able to clear the pad
One of the N1s cleared the pad on one occasion, flying for 107 seconds and failing just before stage separation. Also one of the engines that failed was from the central 3 that are used to perform the landing, so that aint good either.
The news is spinning this as a huge step. You know we had a space SHUTTLE, right?
It’s much better than the Space Shuttle, at least on paper. The space shuttle as finally conceived was a horrible kludge of what was initially a simple, small space truck.
If/when Starship actually flies, it’d be the first step forward in super-heavy lift rocketry since the SaturnV/N1 was cancelled. Excepting the stand-alone Energia that never flew.
Soviets had automated more advanced shuttles, and they were abondoned after the fall. I’m also suprised Putin didn’t revive the program.
