{"id":48007,"date":"2024-08-29T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/video-failed-rocket-landing-shows-value-of-unmanned-vessels\/48007\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:33:16","slug":"video-failed-rocket-landing-shows-value-of-unmanned-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/video-failed-rocket-landing-shows-value-of-unmanned-vessels\/48007\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Failed Rocket Landing Shows Value of Unmanned Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#039;s rocket landing vessels are unmanned and autonomous, and for good reason. The converted deck barges receive SpaceX&#039;s reusable booster rockets when they return to earth, and while that process goes smoothly the majority of the time, it sometimes ends with a damaged rocket &#8211; as with Wednesday morning&#039;s launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At about 0348 hours Wednesday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a payload of 21 Starlink satellites. The launch and ascent went as planned, and the booster began its descent to land on the barge (named<em> A Shortfall of Gravitas <\/em>in tribute to a science fiction author).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The booster touched down, but the flames from its engine did not cut off, and it gradually fell over &#8211; an outcome that might have been dangerous for a crewed vessel, but endangered no personnel on the self-navigating barge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SpaceX booster 1062 has suffered a landing failure after its 23rd flight! ????<\/p>\n<p>This ends a run of 267 consecutive landings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2TNhegTjp9\">pic.twitter.com\/2TNhegTjp9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Everything Space (@totalspace360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/totalspace360\/status\/1828706739023216758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was the booster&#039;s 23rd launch, and its fiery end illustrates the success of the company&#039;s reusable-rocket system. Instead of spending on manufacturing disposable boosters for each mission, SpaceX designed&nbsp;rockets tjat can be recovered, overhauled and relaunched dozens of times. The savings make SpaceX commercially competitive as a launch service provider.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the failed landing Wednesday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said that it would be grounding all Falcon 9 rockets pending the outcome of an investigation. The grounding will delay the launch of Polaris Dawn, a five-day, manned orbital mission that will include the world&#039;s first commercial spacewalk with SpaceX&#039;s proprietary spacesuit. The four astronauts for the mission are currently in quarantine and awaiting permission to launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SpaceX&#039;s rocket landing vessels are unmanned and autonomous, and for good reason. The converted deck barges receive SpaceX&#039;s reusable booster rockets when they return to earth, and while that process goes smoothly the majority of the time, it sometimes ends with a damaged rocket &#8211; as with Wednesday morning&#039;s launch.&nbsp; At about 0348 hours &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2147,4236,14273,1439,1094,304,2904],"class_list":["post-48007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-failed","tag-landing","tag-rocket","tag-shows","tag-unmanned","tag-vessels","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/48008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}