Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Nov 19 2005, 06:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here goes:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18353 http://www.spacex.com/ Looking forward to launch videos... -------------------- |
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Mar 25 2007, 08:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Interview with Elon Musk on
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ Good news. They have recovered telemetry (and more video....I wanna see it but gimme a motion sickness pill first!) from some 2+ more minutes of flight. The vehicle shut down only about 1 min early at about 7.5m min into flight AND deployed the dummy payload mass. And the problem was indeed coupling between the slosh in the LOx tank and the thrust vector control system. Slosh was apparently started by the collision with the first stage (triggered by larger than test-stand indicated tip-off forces from the first stage engine shutdown), AND the hard slew to get back on track. "....shutdown transient had a very high pitchover force. causing five times the max expected rotation rate." And regarding the debris events.. Since the vehicle wasn't approaching breakup, I'd have to concur that the debris was mostly or all ice. The regularity of the rectangular piece is still odd, but I have no real idea of it's size and the "ice off a pipe" speculation seems plausible. |
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