One can always learn something from what others have done years ago. SpaceX has so much time to spare, thus has no fear to learn.
2 years ago | 1
Flame trench with massive water deluge system is the only answer
2 years ago | 0
The new Launchpad has to be made with thicker concrete at least 4 ft deep with a mile radius creating one large LaunchPad completely flat and level concrete over a much larger surface it has to remain flat and level. There can be no angles or interruptions in trajectory of thrust because that could affect the engines and the spacecraft itself or cause it to have a bad lift off causing it to go off course. I noticed one major problem on the original LaunchPad was although the surface below the massive thrust engines was level there appear to be an old dried-up stream or pond directly next to the LaunchPad and the ground was not level. You noticed a big steam cloud over and above the rocket propellant and coolant what unfortunately what Elon Musk and his crew have not thought of is the fact that much like clouds in the air form from different atmospheric pressure and temperature along with moisture. The same occurrence can happen at the launch site on land so when the spacecraft went to liftoff all thrust engines firing this caused an immense amount of heat being turned into steam along with the atmospheric pressure changing rapidly therefore creating turbulence on the ground. If you noticed upon liftoff the entire craft sat there even though the engines were at Full Throttle all of them working together I believe the extreme turbulence and the delayed liftoff due to the atmospheric pressure change cause from the moisture on the ground slightly uneven surface surrounding the immediate LaunchPad and the thick thin concrete literally breaking apart melting and disintegrating in place causing tons of Pebbles and granular to be thrown up into the engine thrusters the extreme heat suddenly combining together created enough turbulence to knockout 8 of the thrusters. You can also see the extreme turbulence on the ground when the palm trees and all standing objects are tossed about like that of a hurricane noticing that the wind and the force created by liftoff was not just going in one direction or going out in a circular Direction it was violently and rapidly changing direction and you can actually hear the turbulence in the camera that was viewing the liftoff this got really bad just before the windows of the car blew out hopefully everybody saw the same footage I saw and can remember what I am talking about. You also heard several things hitting objects in all different directions so material was probably thrusted up into the thrusters along with the turbulence that's why it took so long for the entire spacecraft to lift off the ground while this was all happening I believe that's what damage did the engines. So just before separation you can start to see a tail cloud formation of moisture coming directly from the right bottom side of the spacecraft which indicated again severe turbulence at the same time indicating that it was going off course due to the irregular pattern of the engines firing their thrust incompletely due to the loss of the eight engines the moisture on one side being quite visible The Craft indicating that it was already going off course before separation. Upon trying to have the separation occur it was too out of formation and to out-of-sync and experiencing even more turbulence now in the air from being at full thrust off course dealing with turbulence and the 8 failing engine thrusters not allowing to fully separate that's causing the craft and it's unequal engine thrust to start to spin in a circular formation. This is why it is vitally important the next time they do this to have a much larger LaunchPad with nothing but flat level dry concrete for at least one mile diameter the concrete also needs to be made extra thick probably at least 4 ft in-depth of solid concrete with no loose debris anywhere in sight of the one mile diameter around the entire spacecraft this should produce a much smoother liftoff and ensure all thrusters firing equally and flowing pressure in a equal distributed downward motion to ensure proper Lift-Off without any debris coming back onto the craft or onto the thrust engines at the same time will eliminate the turbulence as well. I'm just really thankful that no one got hurt. In this latest test.
2 years ago | 0
Maeby the wil install it in ground so the could ride on it end gain acces to the engines
2 years ago | 0
Space Beetle
This is the flame deflector used for the Apollo 5 mission, with the Saturn IB AS-204 sitting above it. Will SpaceX use something similar to this? If so, it would have to fit between the OLM legs and be removable so as to keep access to the booster's engines when needed.
I will be discussing flame deflectors in my upcoming video and how SpaceX might use them for Starship launches.
2 years ago | [YT] | 53