Re: Finally some (crumby) video of vertical landing booster.
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:10 am
by The Dharma Bum
well they are essentially a capsule sitting on a giant flaming container of rocket fuel
hmmm there's gotta be a better way
Re: Finally some (crumby) video of vertical landing booster.
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:35 am
by Spider
Not even a capsule. This was just a test platform. Apparently it was a new variant with 3 engines running instead of one, trying to hover and vertically land again, and something went sideways. Looks like there was a flameout and the rocket automatically blew itself up. Safety feature.
Re: Finally some (crumby) video of vertical landing booster.
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:46 am
by The Dharma Bum
maybe some day something like this will be developed put to practical usage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
Re: Finally some (crumby) video of vertical landing booster.
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Sun Aug 24, 2014 1:22 pm
by The Comrade
The future of getting off the planet is spacecraft that never leave space. Eventually well get people into space with an elevator or a kinetic launcher.
Re: Finally some (crumby) video of vertical landing booster.
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Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:44 am
by The Dharma Bum
perhaps even in combination with LTA technology, as a hybrid lifter