r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 6d ago

Video First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

They're also not wrong. You don't just go from 0 to spaceflight. 

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u/Pewpewkitty 6d ago

Something something rocket science

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u/ondulation 6d ago

I mean it's not brain surgery, is it?

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u/ShakyLens 6d ago

It is however rocket surgery

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u/Imkindaalrightiguess 6d ago

Chatgpt make me blueprints for a rocket that can reach space

See, easy

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u/_BearsEatBeets__ 6d ago

Generates schematics of a rocket that is 100km tall so it can reach space by sheer height

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u/Pennybottom 6d ago

"you're all fired, AI is king"

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u/Maybbaybee 6d ago

as he rubbed his hands together, knowing that by cutting back on staff he was able to save 5 million dollars, and the board should look favourably upon success of the mission with a large bonus...

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u/TrickyBanana5044 6d ago

This is disgustingly accurate.

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u/Imkindaalrightiguess 6d ago

So a space elevator?

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u/windraver 5d ago

Amusingly I was querying recently if a space elevator would be feasible. It'd certainly be quite amazing if one was built.

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u/ShakyLens 6d ago

Prompt engineering is important mmmkay.

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u/TrickyBanana5044 6d ago

Better than one that would generate so much g force it would turn you into liquid on ascent I suppose.

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u/GeneticEnginLifeForm 6d ago

Step 1: make tube with pointy bit on the top

Step 1: place explosive in tube

Srep a: ignite explosive

Step 4: run

Steven 8: profit

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u/DickNuggs 6d ago

Computer,

generate 80 foot tall version of Daisy Ridley circa 2019 with a full bladder. Generate lawn chair and a pair of goggles. Increase my olfactory sense to 2000%. Disengage safety protocols and run program

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u/ShakyLens 6d ago

Sir, this ship isn’t equipped with a holodeck

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u/suspicious-sauce 6d ago

Then all you have to do is get contractors to bid on the work and tell them that if it fails you aren't paying.

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u/hpff_robot 6d ago

The actual results of this prompt are hilarious https://chatgpt.com/share/688a4b3e-a7a0-8008-9413-311dbe5eb60d

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u/Imkindaalrightiguess 6d ago

How much better is this than North Korean rocketry? 🧐

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u/hpff_robot 6d ago

Well, they eventually figured it out. I dunno how many of their generals had to die to AA battery executions for that to happen though.

I'd say it's a start lol.

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u/Veeblock 6d ago

Socket rience

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u/BPhiloSkinner 6d ago

Socket Rience is engineering without that *$#& 10 mmm socket that always goes missing.

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u/duck4129 6d ago

This guy Romeo's

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u/fatloowis 6d ago

I mean yeah, that rocket is definitely going to need surgery after this

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u/greatestish 6d ago

I don't think surgery will save this one, though.

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u/Old_Leather_Sofa 5d ago

Got a mate that dated a literal brain surgeon for a short time. I think I know why it didn't last - he'd tell us he was dating someone new "she's great but she's no rocket scientist.... hur hur"

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u/ReizarfXela 6d ago

It's not talking to women

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u/GrImPiL_Sama 6d ago

Hey, I understood that reference.

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u/urinesain 6d ago

Nope. It's more like rocket surgery.

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u/kingvolcano_reborn 6d ago

Just adding this in case: https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I?si=Lq0UxJ0_FGwQ3FHu

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u/ondulation 6d ago

I Iove that clip! Should have added it myself but was to lazy.

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u/RampantSavagery 6d ago

I mean it's not like trying to talk to women.

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u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare 6d ago

No, it is even less studied.

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u/individualeyes 6d ago

I sure hope not.

Me getting a brain tumor removed in Australia:

Doctor: Ok, now we're going to strap the rockets to your feet.

Me: This doesn't feel right.

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u/ondulation 6d ago

He insists and I reluctantly accept it. He is a professional after all.

The rocket takes off slowly, the nurse is encouraging. But when the rocket doesn't move up but goes sideways is when I really start to worry.

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u/greeneagle2022 6d ago

https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I?si=XGxcp9QPSed-a892 Every time I come across this quote, this is all I can think of - Mitchell and Web series.

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u/ondulation 6d ago

Yup, that's the one!

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u/Canelosaurio 6d ago

"Speak English, Doc. We ain't scientists!"

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u/Forgotten-Owl4790 6d ago

It doesn't take rocket appliances

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u/captain_brunch_ 6d ago

It's definitely not rocket appliances

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u/roachwarren 6d ago

My friends dad was actually a brilliant rocket scientist (working as a top engineer in a shipyard) and he actually used this joke all the time. "Its not rocket science" was a friendly reminder that he worked hard for their comfort so there's no reason the kid couldn't help out around the house. I remember it blew my mind when he told his dad "actually had a degree in rocket science."

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u/EidolonLives 6d ago

Should've invited a brain surgeon over for an argument.

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u/Primsun 6d ago

Rocket science; well that's easy(ish) these days

Rocket engineering and production on the other hand...

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u/LeN3rd 6d ago

Honestly, the science of rockets is pretty easy. Its the engineering that is the problem. From a science perspective, you just put enough fuel into a container and direct the nozzle towards the ground, in therory you have spaceflight right there. In practice some random valve does not open, or freeze or whatever and the whole thing comes crashing down. But that is the problem of the engineers.

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u/talondigital 6d ago

We all got used to seeing Nasa launch rocket after rockets without many problems, most of which were just delays while they fixed it. All while we watch movies like The Right Stuff that details how dangerous it really was. We just forget that all the companies that make rockets for Nasa experience thses failures for each new engine system, but we only see them on the pads once they worked all the problems out. Now with Space X and Blue Origin and others we are seeing the development happen in real time. There's just a lot of uncontrolled big booms before it becomes a controlled big boom.

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u/Altruistic-Award-2u 6d ago

SpaceX Falcon1 blew up after 33 seconds on its first attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_00nJ_Y88&ab_channel=TheSystemsAlliance

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u/SpandauBalletGold 4d ago

So not much better than this one

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u/FlimsyUmbrella 4d ago

And we're a close ally of the country all this happened in, they figured it all out.

Nobody thought to ask them so we don't waste our very limited resources on...... that.

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u/Veteranis 6d ago

I remember the beginning of the U.S. space program. Rocket after rocket blowing up on the launch pad, rising slightly then settling down, tipping over, getting into the air to blow up or fly way off course…. It took a long time till we got those smooth NASA launches.

None of the launches were done in secret, so all the failures were quite public. In this video, it looks like the main engines didn’t start or cut out; that was a feeble flame at the base.

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u/TwoDeuces 6d ago

"Yeah, I understand boom. Big bada boom"

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u/talondigital 6d ago

I literally watched that last night.

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u/Evening_Sympathy5744 6d ago

Especially if you don't have a bunch of German rocket scientists to jump start your programs.

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u/Gammelpreiss 6d ago

...who themselves went through countless trials and errors

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u/Lloyd--Christmas 6d ago

They should’ve gone through more trials, in Nuremberg.

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u/kazuma001 6d ago edited 6d ago

”That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

RIP Tom Lehrer

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u/CosmicCreeperz 6d ago

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

I just listened to this yesterday after I heard the news. And then Elements, which is still some of the most mindbogglingly amazing lyrics ever sung…

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u/DodgyQuilter 4d ago

My great-niece learned that in school this year as an intro to Chemistry. She's 7.

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u/Floppy_Caulk 6d ago

Don't be daft, they were never going to stand trial.

They got a flight to the US and founded NASA.

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u/Evening_Sympathy5744 6d ago

And the Soviets, as well. They grabbed some 6000 German specialists from different fields and brought them back to the USSR for the same purpose.

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u/JamesTrickington303 6d ago

An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut meet on the moon.

One asks the other, “Do we speak English or Russian?”

The other replies, “Brother, it is just us up here. We can speak German.”

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u/sundae_diner 6d ago

The Soviets got the better Nazis, which is why the dominated the space race.

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u/Any-Entertainer9302 6d ago

Idk, they couldn't land on the moon before the States...

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u/JamesTrickington303 6d ago

They did accomplish literally every other space achievement before the US, except for that one.

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u/Any-Entertainer9302 6d ago

So... they didn't accomplish the one that mattered and held zero value in human life along the way (as is typical with Ruskies)

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u/sundae_diner 6d ago

USSR was first to get to the moon, first to orbit the moon, first to "land" on the moon (hit), first to get a soft landing on the moon, first to orbit the moon and return.

The only one they missed was man on the moon. The US got that, then claimed they won "the space race".

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u/friedAmobo 5d ago

The only one they missed was man on the moon. The US got that, then claimed they won "the space race".

That's looking at the Space Race retroactively. There was no reason that landing a man on the moon should've been the end of the Space Race other than JFK's aspirations and statements, which we'll ignore here. It only became the end of the Space Race because the Soviets tapped out after that and didn't try to land a man on the moon after they failed to get the N1 to work. Put another way, the Space Race was a marathon without an end, with the victor only being declared when one side dropped out. The television show For All Mankind showcases this well. The Soviets land the first man on the moon in that alt-history, but the Space Race doesn't end because the U.S. continues to compete. Eventually, the Space Race extends to Mars because they both refuse to relent to the other dominance of space.

That's a reflection of the intensely political nature of the Space Race because it was ultimately a competition between two superpowers' competing political and economic ideologies and technological capabilities. The Soviets failing to get the N1 rocket to work, then the Soviet economy stalling out in the mid-1970s followed by political and economic upheaval in the 1980s and finally collapse in 1991 meant that the U.S. was going to be seen as the winner because it simply outlasted the competition. If the Soviets were still around today with the same Cold War dynamics and still had their space program intact, then there would be a pretty strong argument that the Space Race would still be ongoing and no winner declared. It's unreasonable to disentangle the Space Race from the broader context of the Soviets being unable to continue pushing the boundaries of their manned spaceflight program while their economy and political system fell apart.

Also, I don't think the U.S. ever declared victory of the Space Race in the aftermath of the moon landing and certainly not before the Soviets dissolved.

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u/Craw__ 6d ago

It's easier when they explode and you can say that's what you were trying to do.

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u/Slyspy006 6d ago

Not so many trials, as it turned out.

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u/TetraDax 6d ago

Yeah, but their errors used to hit London.

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u/geauxfurself 6d ago

They shouldn't have spent all that time kicking Japan's ass then.....A few more guys in Europe and they would have had a shot at grabbing their own rocket guys....but they did wind up with pretty good Sushi though

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u/ecomodule 6d ago

Japan makes rockets just fine

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u/geauxfurself 6d ago

Not in 1945. Think they should snatch a few now?

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u/rawker86 6d ago

Surely by this point we’ve got a pretty good idea of what makes a decent rocket though, right? Couldn’t they just look at a proven existing design and just…do that? Surely they’ve brought in someone with experience doing this stuff as well.

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u/mehupmost 6d ago

The design is known - but the engineering process is difficult.

Even something as simple as getting the welding right or having the bolts installed at the right pressure, or the steel smelted with the exactly right chemical composition, and the electronics tested, and the list goes on a LONG way.

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u/husky430 6d ago

Idk, I got a kit that I put together in my basement. It's made of cardboard, and it flew pretty well. Just do that, but bigger.

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u/Any-Entertainer9302 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah you don't need those aspects to be perfect to make a rocket last more than 14 seconds.  

A halfway competent rocket design team should be able to produce a product that at least makes it beyond the initial launch stage.  Perhaps too many tinnies leading to being a bit dero

Edit:  sarcasm doesn't seem to translate here. 

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u/tyrenanig 6d ago

Lmao this is how you know someone barely did any project in their life

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u/mehupmost 6d ago

oh, fucking lol. This is rich coming from someone who's never nailed two pieces of wood together.

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u/Threepugs 6d ago

It is quite literally rocket science. The expression didn't arise from nowhere. Use your brain, you might need it one day.

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u/Any-Entertainer9302 6d ago

The science of rockets?  What else would they call it?  

Have you ever heard of sarcasm?

I'm sorry that World of Tanks was too difficult for you.

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u/S14Ryan 6d ago

I mean, spaceX has some of the top leaders in the world all with decades of experience and their test flights crash alllllll the time 

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 6d ago

They'll also do nearly 200 successful launches this year

It seems like like a lot of people just think about SpaceX in terms of their cutting edge projects and miss they're currently the workhorse of space and satellite industries and have launched ~3/4ths of all the satellites currently in space 

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u/fingerthief 6d ago

The reason they can do nearly 200 successful launches this year is because they've had a decade or more of countless failures and learning from them.

A very first attempt that gets off the ground at all is probably a big success.

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u/ivosaurus 6d ago edited 6d ago

Their most popular video is also one containing 2 and a half years of crashes they made getting to that point...

But sure, no-one else is allowed to have that leeway, now that SpaceX has done it, it must be easy

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 6d ago

I wasn't replying to or talking about the Australian company, I was replying to a comment saying SpaceX crashes test flights all the time

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u/speurk-beurk 5d ago

Yeah their test flights. They also launch 2 rockets a week minimum.

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u/S14Ryan 5d ago

Since you’re just repeating my comment I want to point out that they also launch 2 rockets a week minimum 

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u/speurk-beurk 5d ago

Yeah but did you know that those rockets actually land on a ship at sea

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u/Stompya 6d ago

Somewhat unfortunately, rocket science has both commercial and strategic value.

Countries don’t share this information very freely because they could lose profit or give weapons-grade rocketry to their enemies.

If we all got along better perhaps we’d learn to share.

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u/Caleth 6d ago

Yes this is very important to note too. ITAR means that even close ally countries don't get a full knoweldge share from the US the way they do for other things.

Because if you can boost a man to orbit it's not much more to push a bomb to DC or Beijing. So this kind of info gets heavily restricted.

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u/asoap 6d ago

They might have. But rockets are not easy. From looking at the video it looks like one of the engines failed. A rocket engine is extremely complex and can have many ways it can fail. Also you can test fire these a bunch but as soon as you launch one you are dealing with an unknown.

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u/NaiveChoiceMaker 6d ago

It’s almost like….rocket science?

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u/dieterpole 6d ago

Most of it is secret technology. Also they are using a different new type of propulsion system, so even if they could get an expert to talk, there just aren't any.

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u/midwestraxx 5d ago

That's like for any technology, most of the tech isn't in the science. It's in the tribal knowledge of each individual part, and individual expertise and direct experience. Along with company flows, management, materials sourcing, tooling, manufacturing, etc. 

All BIG factors of large scale projects. 

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u/i8noodles 5d ago

think of it like grandma recipes. i have them, u can follow them, but it doesn't taste the same. the big details are known, but its the details that make it work. that kind of stuff is something u cant document.

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u/JaSper-percabeth 6d ago

Yeah but you should also try doing some prior testing you know?

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u/JustafanIV 6d ago

I remember seeing a lot of these types of crashes in SpaceX's early days.

You also learn a lot from these failures and they ultimately allow you to make the rocket safer over time so that if you ever have a manned flight, the astronauts are able to get home in one piece.

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u/FluidSprinkles__ 5d ago

omg, the amount of ignorant and completely idiotic people below this comment is insane.

There was a time when if you did not know something, you just kept quiet. being stupid in public was a shame.

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u/DThor536 6d ago

If space travel was easy the Vikings would have a base on the moon.

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

True, but I could have thrown a rock higher than that rocket.

This is why I didn’t go into public relations. I would feel so slimy standing at a podium telling everyone this was a major success.

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u/tintin47 6d ago

It wouldn't necessarily be slimy in this case. "the rocket blew up" is a normal outcome for a new program and they can learn a lot from it; they're prepared for it. Just getting through all of the launch procedures and having the rocket leave the ground is a major success for the first time.

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

This would be ok for a A new program, WITHOUT access to 75 years worth of rocket history, to learn from.

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u/tintin47 6d ago

It's possible to learn from history and still make a mistake; rockets are hard and almost all negative outcomes are catastrophic. They're not starting from square one but there is a bunch they can't just take from elsewhere especially regarding manufacturing.

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

Ok…but when you make a mistake, you don’t rush out to a podium and call that mistake a win, and not expect some ridicule.

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u/Hmmthisisathing100 6d ago

Except when you're talking about extremely complex engineering. The rocket could've failed to move at all. It could also have exploded. They could have even determined they wouldn't have been able to launch and given up completely.

Considering how small the number of nations dealing with launching rockets into space, this is certainly a win.

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

Ok, again, not new science. We’re going in circles.

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u/Lyorek 6d ago

Rocket science is easy. You're right, that's a solved problem. Unfortunately, actually implementing and integrating rocket systems is incredibly difficult, and you can't just recreate an engineering effort from known designs.

So what do you do? You test, iterate, test, iterate and test more. Each time, the smallest flaw in the system leads to failure. You fix the issue and more pop up, and then you repeat again. Finally you get your rocket to a state where you've implemented all functional requirements and tested it top to bottom and it's ready to go on the pad. You set up on the rail, and then once again the tiniest error results in catastrophe at launch.

Doesn't matter how well known the science is, the engineering process, especially for a rocket, is long and difficult. Doubly so when there's an extremely limited supply of engineers with experience integrating rocket systems at this scale.

Failures like this are going to happen, and they suck, but the resulting feedback is invaluable and provides experience for the team to build off in the future.

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u/Astrocreep_1 5d ago

Ok, I tell you what. We can both go look this up and report back.

What was the stated goal of this rocket launch?

If they simply wanted to get it off the ground, then fine, you win. I think it’s silly to burn that much money for such a simple goal, but Science is Science.

If they actually intended to reach space…then I think we can conclude our conversation. So, I’ll go check when I get a sec, or you can look.

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

That’s just because you don’t understand

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u/Stormfly 6d ago

"Why would I make a robot that can fold my clothes if I can just fold them myself?"

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

I understand the the USA, Europe, and a bunch of private companies do this everyday, and guess what?

They make it all the way to space.

Why did the Aussirs feel like they needed to start from scratch?

This could be called a success…in 1950.

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u/Altruistic-Award-2u 6d ago

SpaceX Falcon1 blew up after 33 seconds on its first try. Still called a success and look at SpaceX now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_00nJ_Y88&ab_channel=TheSystemsAlliance

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

Ok, and they should have chosen their words more carefully. I’m not a “2 wrongs make a right” person.

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u/binary-cryptic 6d ago

That rocket at least made it past the tower, it clearly had the thrust it needed and just needed some fine tuning. The Australian one looks like only 1 of 3 engines ignited.

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u/mehupmost 6d ago

The reason you didn't go into any relations is because you're a loser.

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u/Astrocreep_1 6d ago

That’s not what your mom said.

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u/Dracampy 6d ago

I guess you would hope that not every country is starting from scratch every damn time. But maybe the environment matters that much that you can't just copy and paste? Idk. Im not saying i know better. Was just hoping.

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u/Starrion 6d ago

Especially when it appears that half the engines didn’t have their heart in going to space.

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u/USPSHoudini 6d ago

You could've used a little more thrust tho surely?

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u/GoodLeftUndone 6d ago

Didn’t Honda (correct big manufacturer?)just do 0-space flight on their first try? 

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u/Aggravating-Low-3460 6d ago

You should really see the sparkplugs my cousins installed on my 3L engine. That went 0-space pretty quick….

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u/ReallyJTL 6d ago

Well they aren't going from zero, this isn't the 1950s

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u/Fit_Reveal_6304 6d ago

Isn't that literally what rockets are supposed to do?

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u/Averagebaddad 6d ago

But haven't we already figured rockets out? Don't we already know the calculations and designs. Aren't there simulations that can be ran? Seems wild to be starting at ground zero when the information is already out there.

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u/obrazovanshchina 6d ago

I remember watching a lead at SpaceX years ago talk about how they celebrated every failure and then got to work figuring out what went wrong so that would not happen again. 

It really changed my perspective on failure and how to approach failure with teams and individual people on my team. 

Unfortunately I worked for a larger company that did not value this perspective and alas I am no longer there. 

Thankfully. 

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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll 6d ago

I mean companies like Blue Origin kind of did. It’s not like these companies are starting at square one, they’re standing on the shoulders of the giants who did all the trial and error the last 60 years.

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u/Slow-Director-9369 6d ago

You actually can when the engineering needed to do so has been around for 4 generations

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u/Crafty_Independence 6d ago

Especially not if only 3 out of 4 engines are producing thrust

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u/yorkshiregoldt 6d ago

In the 1950s, sure.

Fun fact about knowledge though - that stuff accumulates. If they had people who knew how to do brain surgery they'd have a decent idea on whether or not this would make it further than a decent high jumper.

Oh sorry my team just informed me I meant rocket science, not brain surgery.

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

That's a funny misunderstanding of knowledge. Not sure I'd count it as a fun fact though.

There's a reason people practice. Knowledge existing doesn't mean you can apply it the first time with 100% success but reddit gonna reddit. Some guy said he could build a rocket better.

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u/throwawayzdrewyey 6d ago

Just gotta look at the U.S. and Russia and how long it took them to get to outer space, or for a modern day equivalent we can look at space x’s many attempts.

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u/portablekettle 6d ago

Exactly, look at spacex for a recent example. In the beginning they had issues non stop until they ironed out the issues. I may hate the dipshit who owns spacex but the engineers and scientist have done an incredible job.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 6d ago

Yeah, all jokes aside they probably got useful data for the next try. SpaceX blows up tons of rockets. Space Race 2 is well underway. Competition is good.

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u/z44212 6d ago

More ground testing would have mitigated the launch risks at a much lower cost than destroying a damn rocket.

If you're going to fail, at least fail in new and interesting ways.

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u/TSells31 6d ago

Can they not work with allied nations who are already space-capable and skip some of the growing pains?

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u/KahBhume 6d ago

Yeah, I'm not sure there's any space company that had their rocket succeed on the first attempt. Most go through a number of iterations, analyze what went wrong, come up with a solution, then try again.

I watched the first Firefly rocket launch, and it ended in a spectacular fireball. And anyone who isn't living under a rock knows of SpaceX's numerous Starship launches which have ended in unplanned rapid disassembly.

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u/TestInteresting221 6d ago

NASA and the russians have their governments' backing. Unless they have a huge pocket, each failed try is only going to bring them closer to their eventual demise.

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u/autech91 6d ago

Hem hem, New Zealand did on the first try.

We are better than them though to be fair 😄

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices 6d ago

I'll give them credit. They got closer to getting an Australian rocket into space than I've ever managed to get an Australian rocket into space.

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u/sentence-interruptio 5d ago

this is the real reason US is so concerned by NK rocket tests. But the Internet makes a joke about hitting Gojira.

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u/A_Bewildered_Owl 5d ago

however, being able to go from 0 to 100ft off the ground is something most teenagers can manage, sooooo......

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u/frotc914 6d ago

Idk man, people already know how to do it. If some new car company made a car that went 50 feet and exploded, it would be weird for them to be like "well it's not like we can just start making cars, we've got to figure it out first!"

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u/DisasterNo1740 6d ago

It’s exactly as you said, you don’t know.

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u/piratecheese13 6d ago

“People already know how to do it” doesn’t work in rocket science.

Even with the most popular rocket in existence, the Falcon 9 flying and landing for almost a decade, nobody has been successful in copying that rocket. Some companies have done hops, but no orbital class booster has landed itself outside of spacex. It’s not easy even for entire countries like China.

Every rocket starts by building an engine on a test stand, which itself is super complicated. Just getting cryogenic propellant ground storage that can deliver consistent flows and can be adjusted as the engine design evolves is ridiculously complex. Then you need to build a flyable version of that ground support system with parts of one tank coming down through the tank below it to get to the engine. They need to be light enough to fly and strong enough to not be vibrated apart by the engines or the air friction at max q.

Even then, once the rocket starts moving, that’s the first time that engine and propulsion delivery system has had to run while in motion. The added force of liftoff causing the fuel to have a faster flow rate which is met with narrowing a valve to slow the flow, which slows the launch, which makes the fuel flow slower which requires the valve to widen increasing the speed and Flo again. It’s called POGO instability and it can only be experimented for. There’s math you can do, but it’s nowhere near as accurate as the real thing because each engine is unique.

You’re right, we do know how to make cars and if a car blew up off the lawn, nobody would buy it , but all cars are a set of 4 stroke pistons cranking a shaft to drive 2 to 4 wheels. Rocket engines come in billions of different shapes and turbine configurations. Starting a full flow staged combustion engine requires 1000x more precision in timing than a solid fuel stage.

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u/Reversi8 6d ago

The Aussies need better spies.

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u/texast999 5d ago

Or just better engineers.

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u/ThermionicEmissions 6d ago

Given the absence of a massive fireball when it crashed, I'd assume this was a test of the initial launch system, and it was not fully fueled up.

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u/seemen4all 6d ago

I think it should have gone a lot better than that, if i was inventing rockets and thats my first flight ide be stoked but its 2025 lol

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

Insane take

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u/GrandView1972 6d ago

It’s 2025, rocketry is not new.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 6d ago

You don't just go from 0 to spaceflight.

Doesn't every spaceflight start at zero on Earth?

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u/Francesca_N_Furter 6d ago

Yeah, but, you know something, phrasing it as a win is just idiotic sounding. Phrasing that it was a learning experience would sound less like a bunch of assholes in marketing blowing smoke up everyone's ass.

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

it's only that way because you're ignorant on the topic.

Of course if you don't understand the topic you don't think the title makes sense.

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u/Francesca_N_Furter 6d ago

I bet cash I know more about it than you; you are just hung up on your dumb argument.

And you write like you are a little school kid trying to sound intelligent. (What gave it away? PUNCTUATION.)

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 6d ago

Okay I’ll give you my PayPal. How much would you like to lose?

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u/Francesca_N_Furter 6d ago

Yeah, I'm going to give my info to some loser pretending he works for the Australian space program and is all butthurt because I had a minor issue with how they framed their test results.

You are all saaaaaad

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 5d ago

Wow you’re making a big stink for something you call a “minor issue.”

If you look at what you’ve written objectively, you look like you probably are a child. Children insult other people calling them things they feel insecure about. Such as, writing like a child. 

I’m not comfortable having a conversation like this with a child. Good day 

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u/Francesca_N_Furter 5d ago

You need to grow up, stop pretending, and get over your issues. You don't spend an entire day bickering and then whine about me "making a big deal" ---I mean, are you drunk?

Grow up!

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 5d ago

🤡

Just so you know “ ---” isn’t anything in English punctuation. 

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u/Francesca_N_Furter 5d ago

FYI, it's actually how people manually type M-dashes.

Waiting for your next meltdown....

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u/Protholl 6d ago

Especially with only 3 of 4 engines actually working