SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
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Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
#2I like hearing that the problem is something as (relatively) trivial to solve as this. I know carrying more fuel with the rocket isn't exactly an easy thing to do, but far easier than finding out there's something fundamentally wrong with the design.
SpaceX is amazing and I'm glad they're doing the hard stuff.
Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
#3Has anyone seen any updates on how their fairing recovery attempt went?
They had the ship done and seemingly ready back in December - https://imgur.com/gallery/MQcEE
Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
#4 The fix, he said, was "pretty obvious."
Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
#5This is why we compare hard problems to rocket science. It's so hard to recover from failure of even the smallest sources.
Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
#6Has anyone seen any updates on how their fairing recovery attempt went? They had the ship done and seemingly ready back in December - https://imgur.com/gallery/MQcEE
They had the Air Force bomb it instead
Re: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
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#10Has anyone seen any updates on how their fairing recovery attempt went? They had the ship done and seemingly ready back in December - https://imgur.com/gallery/MQcEE
Based on https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24990/did-the-fair... it looks like they didn't get it this time.