• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    maybe I missed it in the article - why was there a piece of cheese?

    edit - immediately saw the reason after posting this comment

    Strapping the cheese to the rocket “was purely for fun, but in the end, it allowed us to discover some limits to our design – notably for roll control,” Marciacq said.

    • whyNotSquirrel
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      15 days ago

      kinda weird to make all this calculation and then just zip tie some bag of cheese on it

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        14 days ago

        They’re just doing debug Q&A on the rocket. Next time they’re going to fill it with -1 gallons of fuel and see how far it goes.

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          14 days ago

          Only one way to find out what happens if the thrusters are on upside down

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        14 days ago

        Maybe a good thing in a weird way, at least in testing? Helps you plan for the unexpected

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    15 days ago

    “Europese most important rocket test” is clickbait-y in my opinion. It was the first hop up test. Nowhere near “the most important”.