Real World Hard Landing, KSP Style

[SQUAD]

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<p><span>Have you seen the recently released video of Falcon 9’s stage one hard landing? We felt it was <a href="http://bit.ly/1ytoofM"><strong>MISSING</strong></a> something. Thankfully, so did matt01ss…</span></p>

[Nemrav]

What, Musk hasn't upgraded to at least 0.24, I can tell from his GUI ? No wonder that Falcon 9 stage exploded.... Silly auto-updaters failing to update

That's a very good imposition of the GUI.

[temporalExile]

I have no idea what caused this, but I am willing to wager a few funds that it could be solved with more boosters/struts.

[dryer_lint]

SOMEONE NEEDS TO MAKE A REALITY UPDATE WITH LESS REALISTIC AERODYNAMICS.

caps

[MockKnizzle]

They should have added another resource bar showing the depleted hydraulic fluid

[NovaSilisko]

I like this one, as it has custom text written into the crash dialog:

[Norpo]

Everyone at mission control during this:

"oops"

-my guess, anyways.

[DBT85]

Very cool! Just need Mr Musk to tweet it now!

[Captain Sierra]

As Whackjob once put it, "I do not fear failure. Failure is Data."

There's a nice big data point for them. C'mon, they've done too many world firsts on their first try. I'm surprised this didn't come sooner. As long as nobody is dead and the payload itself made it to space, no harm no foul.

[Raven.]

Close but no cigar. Cigar, eh eh, I get it now. It looks like a flying cigar

[FlowerChild]

Close but no cigar. Cigar, eh eh, I get it now. It looks like a flying cigar

Sometimes a flying cigar is just a rocket.

[mjl1966]

Ouch, my side hurts from laughing!

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Ran out of charge and SAS quit working?

[Seshins]

someone forgot to add batterys.

[Kerano]

Heh, awesome. Looks like the rocket managed to pretty much kill its horizontal and vertical velocity just above the surface, but the lack of hydraulic fluid meant it had no way to right itself to a vertical position. Hence the sudden increase in horizontal velocity just before "touchdown".

Can't wait to see their next attempt.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The fins wouldn't help it to right itself in this situation, they are for when it's flying, not hovering. To me it seems like the rocket over- or under-shot the barge because the fins stopped working, and it lost too much altitude trying to remain on the trajectory with just thrust vectoring and three working engines. Basically, if the fins were working, the rockets would only be killing velocity instead of steering on the approach. Without fins the rockets also had to steer, and the resulting thrust decrease made the whole thing dip too low and clip the barge when it tried to right itself for the landing. Even the approach angle was pretty good - if it had just ten meters more altitude, I think it could've swung past the barge, and returned to land correctly. Assuming it didn't run out of fuel as well by then.

[Olterin]

Time to attach some parachutes, maybe?

[goldenpeach]

That's what happen when you let Jeb touch the command.

Some say he can crash a rocket by thinking

[Alias72]

looks like another world first for SpaceX! I bet no-one else has ever hit a barge with a spaceship before!

[StrandedonEarth]

That's just great! Now we just need to combine the GUI + Jeb overlay of the OP with the custom crash dialog of the second (youtube) vid and it would be perfect!

[Commander Jebidiah]

That's what happen when you let Jeb touch the command.

Some say he can crash a rocket by thinking

Maybe i shouldnt have played human space progrqm while they landed that

[longbyte1]

A successful failure indeed!

[Animek]

Great pretend

[SorryDave]

It would be easier to determine what happened if we had a link to the craft file. We're they using FAR or stock aero?

[monstah]

Ah, so much gold for one thread.

Thanks, guys!

[Red Iron Crown]

I think the SAS was left on "point retrograde".