Thursday, April 16, 2015

NEW VIDEO SHOWS THE SPACEX ROCKET LANDING ENDING IN A GIANT EXPLOSION, AFTER ELEMENTARY MISCALCULATION OF THE ROCKET SPEED UPON LANDING








APRIL 15, 2015

On Tuesday, April 14, the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX attempted what would have been a game-changing feat when it tried to land a rocket on a robotic platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

The idea is to create reusable rockets that detach from their payloads and fly back to Earth. Spaceflight companies could launch the same rocket over and over and dramatically reduce the cost of launches.

The technology is still in the works, and this landing attempt didn’t quite go as planned.

The rocket came in almost perfectly vertical, but as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk put it: 

Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing pic.twitter.com/eJWzN6KSJa
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2015 

It was obvious that there was too much exhaust gas and resulting pressure that caused the rocket to flip and explode.  This was not even close.  Some very obvious and elementary miscalculations.

The only footage we had yesterday was this Vine that SpaceX released and it shows no rocket explosion (trying not to scare investors by providing half truths or avoiding the release of the aftermath or putting a positive spin on everything):









Now, there’s a video that shows what happened after the Vine cut off.

You can see the rocket start to tip over:



And then it hits the deck in a fiery explosion:




There definitely won’t be any reusable parts after that landing, which Musk mildly deemed “too hard for survival.”

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com.au