Video of the day: hard landing stage returned Falcon 9R – 3DNews

A few days ago the news of our site, we published photos of the damaged barge Drone Ship Marmac 300, which experts SpaceX took the role of the landing site for the returned stage rocket Falcon 9R. The images could be considered somewhat deformed and charred container floating vessel, as well as chip design of the launch vehicle, which has been successfully launched to the ISS cargo ship Dragon.

The images given missing from that moment on open access to video barges, allow at least visually to assess the scale of the consequences of a very strong, as he claimed Musk, shock stage Falcon 9R op deck Drone Ship Marmac 300. Having collected all the available materials, it could be concluded that the stage of the launcher could be affected slightly, and the first the full launch of Falcon 9R assigned the status of “successful”, though not without minor technical flaws. But yesterday in Twitter-account Elon Musk appeared intriguing photo report, they say, from the place of the recent events. A little later appeared on page SpaceX Vine-video captured one of the installed cameras on the barge.

Shestisekundny video shows the moment of landing directly (as in this case – fall) Falcon 9R and followed the explosion shock stage rocket. And, judging by what he saw, originally voiced by the assumption of not-so catastrophic consequences were very far from the real situation.

The reason for such a hard landing Falcon 9R served as a mistake in calculating the volume of hydraulic fluid required for proper operation of the aerodynamic control surfaces, which is why the system failed to stabilize the lander. For this reason, the rocket landed slightly away from the intended point of contact with the barge, and deviated from the vertical by 45 °. First blow fell on the landing strut, which could not stand such a load and broke down, and in an instant hit and a section of the engine, which led to the detonation of fuel residues. Everything happens subsequently captured on video and hardly needs any comments or explanations.

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