Unbelievable accomplishment.
One word: Amazing
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It's things like this that make you realize how much further ahead we are in the world. Other countries are still trying to perfect just a simple rocket launch and here we are launching multiple rockets and getting perfect landings on reusable parts. Amazing!
Why does it fly sideways rather than straight up?
I believe that is so that it can pick up speed as well as exit the atmosphere easier. Just speculation though.
I’d never really paid attention when you could see the trajectory of our rockets leaving the atmosphere. Really caught it when I’m looking at the speed at 10,000km/hr and the altitude is essentially creeping in comparison. Should be climbing 2.7km per second if going straight up at that speed.
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I’d never really paid attention when you could see the trajectory of our rockets leaving the atmosphere. Really caught it when I’m looking at the speed at 10,000km/hr and the altitude is essentially creeping in comparison. Should be climbing 2.7km per second if going straight up at that speed.
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Just awesome!
Too bad the center/core booster was lost in high seas.
SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea
SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea
Look at that flat earth in the background at 6:00 mark!
What you talkin bout willis?
Yes they tilt but they don't exactly fly sideways lol
Are you asking about Gravity Turn?
I think he was referring to its trajectory vs the curvature of the earth. Not actually flying sideways. Unless they turned traction control off....
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Yeah, but America was never great....er....isn't great.....errrr....nevermind.
About time they put a pulley'd terminator motor in those rockets.
Lmfao! You won the internet for today
If it flew straight up it would eventually come right back down. The "ship" needs to get enough tangential speed to create an orbit. In order to stay in orbit, the "ship's" horizontal velocity needs to be equal to its vertical velocity. An object in orbit is constantly falling back to Earth due to gravity, as long as the horizontal velocity is equal to the speed it is falling, it will stay the same distance from Earth.
How early it starts its turn away from "straight up" is dependent on weight (which is constantly changing as fuel is burned), the efficiency of its rockets in the atmosphere, and how high of an orbit they are going for.
(I know I'm oversimplifying it, but that's the gyst)
...and Maximus said to Commodus, "the time for honoring yourself will soon come to an end."
Dude, those were stock Trinity motors.
Now you're just confusing the gearheads.
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Wow, truly impressive indeed.
Ironically, you’re not far off from being right. Only instead of a blown piston engine, imagine a turbocharger. Without the piston engine. Just a pair of gigantic turbos, plumbed straight to the fuel tanks. They burn a small portion of the fuel to directly drive the giant fuel pumps that feed the rocket engine’s combustion chamber.
It’s not a piston engine, not a jet engine (but not all that different from a jet engine/ gas turbine). it’s called a “gas-producer” engine.
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I thought I remembered hearing that in the early days jet and rocket engines were so similar that was the reason for it being called JPL and not RPL? Or something like that.
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