[ExI] musk catches one

[Kelly Anderson]

I've been closely following this the last few days, and nobody has
said anything about that. Not SpaceX, none of the space nerd
followers. Except, one of the space channels did say that there was a
superficial loss of a cover which might have allowed flames cooling
under the bottom to leak out the sides.

Now, when one looks at the base of the rocket above the engines, it
was reported that it was half the temperature of the surface of the
sun... so any lack of covering that allowed that kind of heat to just
leak out could have produced some interesting effects. Not sure that's
what we saw.

There must have been a LITTLE bit of fuel left when it landed. Perhaps
that was just gassing off and ignited by the hotness of the whole
bottom of the rocket.

The silence on this element is really interesting to me. It's like,
"nothing to see here, move on"... I suppose we'll know if it happens
next time as well, or they figure out a way to fix it.

-Kelly

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 5:16 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Does anyone know what the gouts of flame shooting out the side of the booster were. Obviously they didn't hurt the landing but those didn't look spec.
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> On Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 4:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> I spoke to a good friend and former colleague about the launch, particularly the recovery.  He said the chopsticks which caught the booster tracked with the vehicle on landing, all of it part of the control system.  Elon swung these chopsticks which weigh as much as a dump truck, to track with the gently descending booster.
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>> This former colleague watched this and realized Elon just whooped our asses (he’s still working.)  But he was able to just admire what a cool landing system it is.
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>> Check this video.  Is this cool or what?
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>> https://twitter.com/i/status/1847716589942296766
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