Computational fluid dynamics simulation by TheSpaceEngineer on YouTube/Twitter.

  • Zippy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And there we have it. I wonder how well they can feather that seperation next time?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t that something they already identified as an issue with the upper stage? Seems odd that this happened again with the lower one now.

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      1 year ago

      It was different for the upper stage. That was a fast rotation messing things up, but in this case the hot staging seems to have pushed harder on the booster than they expected and lifted the fuel away from the bottom of the tank.

      They’ve solved one sloshing issue, but the solution for this one will be different