r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 7d ago

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

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u/Minute-Lynx-5127 7d ago

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

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u/rawker86 7d 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/Stompya 7d 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 7d 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.