A fully stacked Starship left the ground today (April 20) for the first time ever — and it came to an explosive end high in the Texas sky.
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” LOL wut? Yr sh!t blowed up real good, didn’t it now
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” LOL wut? Yr sh!t blowed up real good, didn’t it now
To be fair, they hit the "blow-this-shit-up-before-it-hits-something" button, so kudos to that^^
Not the first time spacex rockets blow up though, it's part of their design process i guess
i didn't notice that the aborted Launch (kill button) i expected to hear soon what part was not fireproof enough or some shit. you mean it was just a of-flight-path situation? BTW, the rapid disassembly is the correct technical term. Military for instance does not say "the grenade explodes",they say "the projectil disassembles" or in german "die waffe zerlegt sich"
As far as I understand the article, the separation of the upper stage failed, so they hit the "explode" button as to not let the rocket crash as a whole^^
They also wrote that a first test of the vehicle (on 17.04.) failed due to a frozen nozzle, which grimly reminds me of the challenger disaster 1986...
Hmm, interesting kind of a euphemism for "explode"^^
explode is just not precise enough ;-)
separation failure sucks. if it were anythign else,they could have used the chance to test emergency separation in case they have somethign liek that
Yeah in EE we also say thermal failure if smth burns^^
might be because it's the cause,and the burn just the result? would mean, the problem was the rapid disassembly and the explosion was the result,because there was still fuel left and fire around. who knows,the engineers probably got fucked over by the laywers too often so they fixed the language ;-)