/sci/ - Science & Math

Honestly New Shepard having an engine failure isn’t too unexpected. Even Falcon 9 had had engine failures due to reuse. However, Falcon 9 can lose an engine or two.

I was thinking that if the probability of Raptor 2 failing is 10%, Superheavy would probably still do just fine.

I’m rewatching the New Shepard failure. At T+1:02 seconds, the engine plume starts having flashes of light. At T+1:03, it happens again. This time, the vehicle rocks back and forth a bit.
At T+1:04, the engine shits itself and the entire bottom of the vehicle is enveloped in fire. It then pitched over, and then New Shepard’s abort activated.
By T+1:05, the capsule was separated. At this point New Shepard was tilted about 45 degrees. This is the last visual data from the booster.