The space X Vertical take off AND LANDING rocket 'Grasshopper' just got even more amazing.. Now demonstrating tacking sideways in hover. Impressive for a thing the same size as a tower block with nobody controlling it.
Yes, that is pretty cool but the amount of fuel it chucks away to do that sort of thing makes me wonder how viable it is. To use that capability requires more fuel, more fuel equals more weight which equals bigger rocket to launch same size payload as more simple rocket. Sometimes the maths don't add up.
No, that was because they were worried they would leave the rocket on the pad overnight, get back the following morning and find it up on bricks with the thrusters missing
Manchester comes is 4th on the list of British cities in terms of days without rain, behind Glasgow, Huddersfield and Preston. Cardiff is the wettest city with 115cm of rain per year. Always new the Welsh were wet but not that wet.
....as long as you avoid the Old Trafford cricket stadium. We need that there for our brave Yorkshiremen to give the Lancastrians their annual thrashing.
Take off worked, but the landing of the first stage on the sea platform was too fast and the rocket broke. It was on target it just needed to slow down more. Better luck next time. Seems to be no footage of the crash landing.
The project leader posted there was no video of the landing due to it being dark and foggy at sea. Obviously conditions for a safe scheduled launch are way more important than conditions for an experimental landing.
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