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Originally Posted by BE911SC
Of course not. I think what the other post claimed, the post that caused the emotional level to rise in this thread, was that corporate interests would like to capitalize on the privatization of the space program and that when profit takes a high degree of priority then the possibility of failures due to cost pressure can occur. ...
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Sure, porwolf was hyperbolic ... no company sustains by selling off its stability.
Speaking of stability, there is this from Wikipedia:
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Reportedly, the craft can land safely even if a catastrophic failure occurs during flight.[26] In 2008, Burt Rutan remarked on the safety of the vehicle:
This vehicle is designed to go into the atmosphere in the worst case straight in or upside down and it'll correct. This is designed to be at least as safe as the early airliners in the 1920s ... Don’t believe anyone that tells you that the safety will be the same as a modern airliner, which has been around for 70 years.
In September 2011, the safety of SpaceShipTwo's feathered reentry system was tested when the crew briefly lost control of the craft during a gliding test flight. Control was reestablished after the spaceplane entered its feathered configuration, and it landed safely after a 7-minute flight.
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Now we are being told that the pilot (error) pulled the feather release a couple seconds early, causing the craft to disintegrate. (scratching head - A supposed M4
spaceship of super-stability disintegrates at ~M1)
Also note, that the highest (design) G-loading (6g) is when feathered and hitting the atmosphere at ~Mach4 -- it was moving at ~Mach1 when this
anomaly happened. --
Maybe Mach-tuck produced enough moment on the body to overcome the feather.. . meh
That doesn't add up, in my lil brain.
Well, other than the people with the supersonic shuttlecock want to reassure the hell out of believers that everything is solid as a rock . ..unless something goes wrong - then it's
Pioneering new technology. ...and
pilot error.
Perhaps the politics of protecting manufactured narrative have begun. :-/