[ExI] musk catches one

[Kelly Anderson]

As I meant to insinuate, there are guesses out there, but I await SpaceX's
comment on the matter. I guessed it was fuel venting as well. But it's just
a guess just like these guys did.

-Kelly

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 10:41 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 16:47, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> This article suggests that it was mainly fuel venting.
> But there might also be a problem that needs checking out before the
> next flight.
> A lot of detail in the discussion, with slow motion video.
>
> BillK
>
> <https://www.adastraspace.com/p/spacex-super-heavy-catch>
> Quote:
> Everything to know about SpaceX's mid-air booster "catch"
> Was it on fire? Why was there black smoke?? Why a catch instead landing???
> Swapna Krishna       October 17, 2024
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