02-07-2018, 01:54 AM
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SPEV/Orion wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,645
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker
Yeah watched part of the livestream press conference... he said it ran out of fuel and hit hard, might have done some damage to the landing ship. He also said that it was the boosters they REALLY wanted back, because they're equipped with the fancy new titanium grid fins-- if he had to pick a part of the rocket to blow up, it would have been the core.
Later! OL J R
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It didn't run out of fuel, but of the igniter fluid to relight the engines (on liftoff of F9, you see a green flash at ignition; that's the stuff -- hypergolic?). They only had enough to light one engine, and it hit at about 300kmh about 150m off the ship, but the resulting explosion damaged two of the drone ship's engines.
Elon also said if they have good enough footage of the destruction, they'll add it to the blooper video.
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