Reusable rocket not as reusable as planned

[arclight]

http://news.sky.com/video/1624643/amazing-footage-of-spacex-failure

 

[neil_g]

didnt they land one successfully the end of last year?

 

[arclight]

didnt they land one successfully the end of last year?

Yes, no doubt the problems will be ironed out.

 

[vetonbike]

One day your up. The next day your down.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

One day your up. The next day your down.

And some days you are neither up nor down........

 

[Deleted sulking member 63079]

They've said a leg strut failed to lock on landing, and that's why it toppled over. Still, even coming close to landing a rocket on a floating barge is an incredible feat of engineering! I also like that the barges are named after Culture Ships from Iain M Banks' books - "Just Read The Instructions" and "Of Course I Still Love You".

The successful landing was on dry land I believe, although they're not going to re-use it, they're going to put it in their museum.

 

[Steep]

You can see the strut collapsing in the video.

 

[BruceMo]

That's a real shame. Seen it on the news, so nearly perfect. I'm still very impressed by that engineering

 

[ianp5a]

Land it sideways instead.

actual footage:

 

[Ian D J]

Hope it's warranty hadn't expired.

 

[ancient_mariner]

The failure looked to be for a 'trivial' reason, rather than failure to land the thing properly, so it *should* be entirely possible to fix it.

 

[ianp5a]

The failure looked to be for a 'trivial' reason, rather than failure to land the thing properly, so it *should* be entirely possible to fix it.

Yeah. Hammer out the dents and give it a lick of paint, and it'll ready to fly again in a few days.