SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falcon 9 Rocket

Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by the_duke on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:23AM (#12396358)

Don't know if this comes from SpaceX or SES.

But Musk is definitely good at coming up with 'interesting' new terms.

See RUD - Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (aka Crash).

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Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by marvin on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:27AM (#12396546)

RUD has been a rocket engineering term for decades, same as e.g. lithobraking (slowing your spacecraft down by smashing it into the ground)

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Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by alphaBetaGamma on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:37AM (#12399070)

I also like the concept of "engine-rich exhaust" (also known as "the engine is melting").

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Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by the_duke on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:03AM (#12397963)

You can always learn something new on HN. ^^

I only ever read in articles about SpaceX.

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Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by tehbeard on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:29AM (#12396560)

Pretty sure he nabbed that one from the KSP community.

Also its not so much a crash as the rocket falling apart.

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Re:SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falco... by JshWright on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:27AM (#12398095)

The term is _much_ older than KSP (going back to at least the 70's)

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