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Caught On Tape: Elon Musk's SpaceX Rocket's "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" Event
It's not been a great week for Elon Musk. First he admits that Tesla sales in China were disappointing (which further tanked the stock down 15% in the last 3 weeks and over 36% off its record highs from last September) and then his SpaceX project suffered a significant setback in what Musk comedically called a "Full RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) event."
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has released the first images from last week's failed landing of its Falcon 9 rocket.
The booster was supposed to have landed on a barge floating off the coast of north-eastern Florida in what would have been a revolutionary first for the space company. The ability to land rockets for reuse is central to Musk's plan to cut the costs of flying into space.
After describing last weekend's attempted rocket landing as "close, but no cigar"...
Close, but no cigar. This time. https://t.co/JowUE6a1D7
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 16, 2015
The entrepreneur today gave a more vivid account of what happened, tweeting four dramatic pictures taken by cameras on board the platform. The images, which can be seen below, show the 223-foot-high rocket smashing into the deck of the ship at a 45-degree angle as its stabilising fins lose power.
@ID_AA_Carmack Tks. Turns out we recovered some impact video frames from drone ship. It's kinda begging to be released…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2015
@ID_AA_Carmack Before impact, fins lose power and go hardover. Engines fights to restore, but … pic.twitter.com/94VDi7IEHS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2015
@ID_AA_Carmack Rocket hits hard at ~45 deg angle, smashing legs and engine section pic.twitter.com/PnzHHluJfG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2015
@ID_AA_Carmack Residual fuel and oxygen combine pic.twitter.com/5k07SP8M9n
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2015
@ID_AA_Carmack Full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) event. Ship is fine minor repairs. Exciting day! pic.twitter.com/tIEctHFKHG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2015
Despite the loss of the booster, Musk cheerfully sums up the situation: "Full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) event. Ship is fine minor repairs. Exciting day!"
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They couldn't just stick a parachute and a gyro on it, no?
An excellent idea. They could even still use the maneuvering rockets too.
Hopefully their engineers read ZH
If their engineers read ZH, it's to check on financial matters. And laugh at the technically clueless comments made about some serious engineering. Suggesting the use of parachutes to brake something that heavy with an operating rocket engine with it's hot exhaust will provide much hilarity.
For once, this IS rocket science.
Which is why I asked. I realise that because I didn't invent PayPal that I am totally unqualified to make any assumptions in the field of rocketry. Do you have any ideas on how it might be achieved, or are you happy just being a twat?
My comments weren't aimed at you. Yours was a valid question.
Ok, thnx, and apologies.
Seriously dude? Selective memory much?
Remember the parachute system they used to land the curiousity rover on Mars? I mean, that whole farce?
Remember that?
You've been Spoiled sport. for all your smart alecky responses, you are a dud.
You've been NASA's and now you're musked. I hope your illusions shatter gently....
Yeah, I remember. The Rover only weighed 2,000 pounds and Mars' gravity is only 38% of earth's gravity. Remember math?
LOL! Great takedown Ralphie!
WTF is a Regional Indian anyway and how does it differ from a National Indian?
And the martian atmosphere is how much DENSER? Like you? ;-)
The math never worked on that farce, it has been proven to be a bad CGI job, period....
This could be chuted, easy, but that would be too easy, they need tospend millions and try tricks to make us think that higher tech is always the answer.
I seriously recommend the Dave's web link above and do a deep dive ol'chap!
The Martian atmosphere is 1% of earth's. What's your point? It's all faked by CGI you say? LOL!
Doooooooooooooofus....
A .6% atmosphere......and parachutes need what to work against? Atmosphere.....
Get it? Junior!
Means that you would need a parachute 100 times larger for the same deceleration than the earth.
Get it?
Strange, you can type straight, grammer is good, punctuation etc., so clearly educated....and you still believe the space travel nonsense?
Tch.....
Joke's actually on you dude. LOL!
They can't just aim for a random patch of grass and tumble on the landing. At best you might use a parachute during part of the descent to save on fuel, but they will still have to cut it lose in the end and land it the way they tried. I'm sure they did the math.
They are planning propulsive+parachute descent for the Dragon though (instead of dropping it in the ocean with a parachute).
Using fuel to land rockets is a waste. Simple ideas, like the ones you're proposing are the best. No need to land even. Just slow the thing down enough so that it doesn't shatter on impact. And we land most of our debris in the ocean to begin with. Most space missions are designed to have small components fry upon re-entry and large tanks fall into water, that we then either salvage for raw material or simply let sink.
Gyro means extra weight - a lot of it, which would cost more fuel than Musk's method. Parachutes and floatation devices are fine. I'm surprised we don't even try using them.
Have you worked out the weight of a parachute deployment system? How much does a laser gyro weigh? Where do you fit flotation devices that would do any good? How much does that system weigh?
LOL!
And the weight of the extra fuel used to slow down descent is for free?
You have no effing idea what you're talking about.
I'm not talking about guidance gyros, but the kind that Italians used to balance ocen liners. Those things weigh a ton. You're talking about gyros that are already present in every device going up into space.
Another day, another fire. Life's a bitch.
Why not just have Ikea make the boosters out of flakeboard and forget about using them more than once?
BOOM!
Elon, hire some Germans, dude.
Shit Happens.
Elon Musk? Can I get that in the deodorant isle?
Aisle 15, right next to his tampoons and on the shelf labled taxpayer bailout.
Shhhhh Angus, lot's of people think Musk is the saviour on here it seems.
The messiah of tech., the epitome of ....gagggg.....bold capitalism...the swashbuckling J. Galt of the valley, no nepotism...
forget the fact that nasa gave him all their "tech" for a song....
Lot's of Muskrat love on ZH though...
Musk got on the same side of the NWO as Russia.
Well that's stupid. Uncharacteristic of Musk.
i guess elon is the only entrapeneur in america that is allowed the credit to pursue his dream.
hey elon guess what? i have a dream too.
guess tptb believe watching elon's dreams fall apart in mid air is money better spend than letting others have a chance too.
i guess it is greater entertainment for them. and i guess all us other entrapeneurs should be sitting back saying "yeah i want to be an entrapeneur like elon", yeah that guy is so cool and someday will be knighted by the queen. ya. i want to be elon.
one thing i have learned is that white people do not claim workmans comp. not like the latinos. and i've also seen how angry the latinos are about obamacare now that they are getting their refund checks garnished by .gov
we need to tax govt not people. tax the govt to death like it taxes us and that will solve our problem.
tax govt not people. and tax ge and gm. they don't deserve to not pay taxes. tax govt not the people!
its sad that the only way an american can stop the .gov from spying on them is to opt out: of cell phones, computers, new cars, society.
i remember when i was taught to use a commador 64 and we used this logo program. i remember how cool i felt and how i dreamed of this awesome future where i would be able to create this world that i wanted to live in.
pretty sad memory
I like your post with its emotion and sentiment. Not sure how you tax government though.
Elon Musk? I thought that was some kind of a cologne. "60% of the time, it works everytime".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OThqZEMBf7M
We need more like him. Guys that are willing to throw their personal fortunes into innovation instead of FX trades. It is said that Thomas Edison made and lost his fortunes several times during his lifetime.
He reminds me of Walt Disney.
They guy was kind of a kook. Disneyland opened and nothing worked right.
But when everything finally was put in order, everybody became a customer.
This article is an out rigth lie. He crashed 1 rocket that succusefully delivered its payload. You understand that this is the first attempt to land a contolled rocket in human history? I hope he leaves people like you on Earth once the Mars colony is established.
Why is the world still paying attention to electric vehicles?
All they do is remove pollution from the city to where ever the coal fired electricity generator is located. In the process one loses 50% of the energy available. Any change in energy form does. With current fuel efficiency I see nothing exciting in these. I guess it is the status and naive hipness. No engineer would approve of the overall inefficiency. These things will go away like bell bottoms and disco clothes.
Do you really believe that coal is the only way to make electricity? I power my electric car with my own solar panels.
So, in answer to the question “Was the Titanic’s rudder too small?”
They say "No."
There must have been gold in that tube that crashed on that ship's deck or something someone wanted destroyed.
Search for UFO's in those photos.
The real question is: "Why this technology is still functioning?" "Why was this technology suppressed?": http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm
That bulb is putting out about the same usable light as a cigarette. An old trick plant managers used to get long life out of incandescent bulbs was to use 220 Volt bulbs on 120 Volt circuits.
As far as your other observations re: gold and UFOs, this site will surely have the answers.
www.rense.com
Congratulations to Mr. Musk and his entire team. Fabulously close for a first effort. People should look at footage of the initial efforts of the US and other space programs for examples of some really wild flameouts done with endless government budgets.
"We must dare, dare again, always dare..."
Danton
Agree!
Hahaha, thank you ZH for my best laugh of the evening, unscheduled disassembly! HA
Klink: As Sgt Schultz would say on behalf of Mr. Musk... "I see notthhhing, I hear notthhhing, I know notthhhing"!
They should have landed it on Hillary's ass, plenty of cushioning there...
And when he comes too quick, it's a "temporally antecedent emission".
Ya got to look on the bright side of this : The poop deck is now clean AND sterile !!!
Give me a break! The attempted reuse of a first stage rocket is awesome. That the first try failed is a bummer, but nothing goes perfect the first try... and if it does the project is hobbled by hubris.
Space X has had more success than NASA did until 1963.
Slight malfunction with the central banking controller. Next time we will have a save.
Boeing has it out for him Big Time ..ya know the ones whos planes implode on take off disappear and stuff and have all gov contracts and rigged bids locked up..that's enough reason for me to like this guy.
I don't care if he tried to tread water on a skateboard and sank. We need visionaries cuz we are no longer producing a fucking thing and this guy foots the bill and I want my grands to live in his future not Being and general dynamics. They had their time..this is Musks time support him Goddamit.
"Obviously a major malfunction." -NASA
Elon Musk seems to be a very rich man with severe ADHD. It seems to me that he has moved 2 projects beyond Tesla which is why there isn't any major inovation going on and why you don't see an affordable version of their electric car. He has been there and done that.
Musk, like Zuckerberg, is a just a connected punk huckster being pumped by hooknosed Wallstreet banksters and their bought-and-paid-for MSM. Musk ain't no Nikola Tesla despite stealing Tesla's name for his POS car.
I've got this hella biased tint to my comment here (that does not favor Boeing) and it's not in favor of Elon. The connected white man from apartheid central is THE most arrogant shithead living in a bubble. and you can see this coming. He got LUCKY with Paypal.
To me, he's Mike Jeffrie's understudy---maybe the doppleganger of the idiot Jeffries in the business world.
Requiring that basic accounts payable applicants require an MBA didn't prevent this little fuck up. Which means Mr. Wannabe Ladue Yacht Club wants to thank the country which worked hard to qualify for jobs for making him a lucky ass bastard by hiring only Visa students who didn't have to pay $70,000 for an MBA to qualify for an entry level Accounts Payable position that probably pays $14/hour in the most overpriced, overrated boomer infested shitehole on the planet. This is why Mars looks good to him.
His little HR team of "hire no asshole" policy were prolly nazi beaners and tweakers hiring their friends like they did at Rio Tinto when and before that little ILWA hiccup occured and they "fixed that problem".
The others- overpaid arrogant hotheads, some with obvious drug use (like NASA) working on heavy handed science running around like little pricks, bragging about doing shots with the aforementioned man who was LUCKY.
He "read a book". Look, I have a PROVEN track record of CURING "uncurable" endocrine issues by simply "just reading"- and my credentials are in finance... not organic chem or molecular biology. I don't just have access to $500 billion to start up a company, I'm being dragged down hard in Cloward Pivenville as a non-affirmative action rejected overrepresented minority who has to compete with all of the others when they're all too stupid to figure out that the job market in CA is hell. OR why.
THEN! After Los Angeles' U-6 unemployment rate of 22% with 9 known Universities in the area is already putting up with the gouging by realtors and landlords in urban jungles.... then THE most arrogant piece of shit lucky white priveledged bastard with well funded education from hell has the AUDACITY to patronize to the rest of us who can't start an institution of any magnitude because the petrodollar bank funded "liquidity" only funds real estate bubbles instead of business growth thanks to the replacement of Glass STegall over SOX (I'm sure Elon asshole lobbied for that himself to protect himself from competition).
This thing is going to follow the performance given by Microsoft before Gates retired. And that's NOT good.
The rocket landing is already performing as well as Vista and Microsoft 8- which both can be classified as acts of domestic terrorism before THAT moron Ballmer gave sports owners the incentive motive to implement raunchy ugly racism by buying out the Clippers (who are going to perform as well as 8 and Vista did).
GAG.
You can't be a real person hired because you have credentials, carry on like this in front of lenders and investors and expect credibility-not in the real world.
Whomever promoted this at the expense of taxpayers in the form of "mercantalism" and "'1st movers' advantage" where the government IS needed to help the process move along. And they carry on like a bunch of saucy nobodies. Well they will be nobodies in the not so distant future.