SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails sea landing for the third time.

[The_Strict_Nein]

The rocket is a structure.

And it failed as a structure.

Structure + Failure = Structural Failure.

You can do simple maths, right?

 

Selectively picking words that relate to something and putting them together does not a fact make.

 

A rocket is also Explosive. Therefore it's also an Explosive Failure, right? It failed as an explosive.

 

Structural Failure would be if the metal of the rocket's leg bent and snapped upon landing. In this instance the leg was fine, but a mechanical component failed to prevent the leg from locking.

 

Now, if the reason that mechanical component failed was because it snapped then you'd have a case for structural failure. But it wasn't. I failed due to ice preventing the mechanism from engaging. Hence, it's a mechanical failure if anything.

[The_Strict_Nein]

cant they just make a stable platform instead of a barge?

 

Platforms cannot be moved. Rocket's take variable paths into space. The idea of the barge is to make it cheaper and hence more viable to go into space regularly, which is the point of everything Tesla is doing.

 

A $500,000 barge that can be used 1000 times is much more cost effective than a $100,000 platform that can only be used once.

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

Platforms cannot be moved. Rocket's take variable paths into space. The idea of the barge is to make it cheaper and hence more viable to go into space regularly, which is the point of everything Tesla is doing.

 

A $500,000 barge that can be used 1000 times is much more cost effective than a $100,000 platform that can only be used once.

Tesla???? We are talking about SpaceX here lol.

[The_Strict_Nein]

Tesla???? We are talking about SpaceX here lol.

 

Sorry, I hear Musk I think Tesla

[Scheer]

The rocket is a structure.

And it failed as a structure.

Structure + Failure = Structural Failure.

You can do simple maths, right?

 

That is like saying a building hit by a tornado was a structural failure...

 

Personally I would consider not taking ice into consideration simply a design flaw, but since this is the first time it has happened like this they likely had no reason to suspect it a being something to watch out for. Now they know.

[bob345]

The rocket is a structure.

And it failed as a structure.

Structure + Failure = Structural Failure.

You can do simple maths, right?

A structural failure is where the structure or material the craft is made of fails. A structural failure would be if the rocket bent in half when it landed. That didn't happen did it? You sure you're a mechanical engineer? Because you sure dont sound like one. Any real mechanical engineer would know that a latching mechanism not locking is not a structural failure.

[NtB]

To be fair, Musk said the same thing would probably have happened if it landed on land.

The only problem was a mechanical failure. It did land, it just couldn't stay standing up.

[potoooooooo]

This is a design fail. When their rocket blew up do to one of the internal struts failing that was a structural fail.

Hardly even a design failure, there was an obscure variable they didn't account for.

 

This is a step in trial and error. I bet they protect the mechanism from ice next time and it's not a problem again.

[★ Coups ★]

Wow. Thats incredibly explosive. Thanks!

[Bensemus]

Hardly even a design failure, there was an obscure variable they didn't account for.

 

This is a step in trial and error. I bet they protect the mechanism from ice next time and it's not a problem again.

Non of those points make it any less of a design failure. They designed it to land and that design failed due to them not accounting for ice build up. Every time something fails it's a learning. opportunity.

[Nowak]

Hardly even a design failure, there was an obscure variable they didn't account for.

 

This is a step in trial and error. I bet they protect the mechanism from ice next time and it's not a problem again.

Probably implement a de-icing system for the landing legs to account for potential ice buildup there. That's what I believe they'll do, anyway.