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#4504245 - 01/19/2007:44 PMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
[Re: F4UDash4]
As I recall, they did a deliberate engine cutout, followed by escape system activation. The failure of the fully fueled rocket stages that were left behind was expected, but when it would happen (early or late) wasn't clear (to me anyway).
Good to see a success here. Not every day you get to watch a rocket launch fail, and still be a success.
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#4504271 - 01/19/2011:47 PMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
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As I recall, they did a deliberate engine cutout, followed by escape system activation. The failure of the fully fueled rocket stages that were left behind was expected, but when it would happen (early or late) wasn't clear (to me anyway).
Good to see a success here. Not every day you get to watch a rocket launch fail, and still be a success.
Yep. It was fully expected, once the Dragon was gone the front end of the Falcon 9 wasn't very aerodynamic any longer and still moving very last fairly low in the atmosphere, aerodynamic forces tore it apart and the remaining fuel ignited.
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#4504293 - 01/20/2008:24 AMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
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If you pause the video at 19:50 you can see the black cloud of the explosion in Dragons "rear view" . Pretty cool.
They stopped showing the altimeter just before the escape system initiation but I think they were at around 80,000 feet.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
#4504301 - 01/20/2011:48 AMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
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"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
#4504848 - 01/24/2012:26 PMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
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Data from the Jan. 19 in-flight launch escape demonstration of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft indicate the performance of the capsule’s SuperDraco abort engines was “flawless” as the thrusters boosted the ship away from the top of a Falcon 9 rocket with a peak acceleration of about 3.3Gs, officials said Thursday.
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#4504854 - 01/24/2001:01 PMRe: SpaceX Just Tested Dragons Ability to Survive an Accident
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