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Recovery thingy deploys @3:26, and breaks off @5:00.

Needs more Blue Danube.

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Definitely my favorite rocket company. This is pretty kick ass - love how the sound goes away and comes back with a vengence.

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Full story and great pictures here:
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=378

"The roughly 15 feet of rocket above the intertank bulkhead, including the fuel tank, composite pressurization tank, computer, payload, four HD cameras, and recovery flyback system were compressed into about two feet. "
Ouch

And a wire-frame space station? How about some asteroids for good measure?
>> ^Zawash:

Recovery thingy deploys @3:26, and breaks off @5:00.
Needs more Blue Danube.

The view from up there is making me dizzy! Awesome vid!

If it was me launching that thing.. I'd be thinking it hit a little hard, and a little close.

Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.

>> ^Zawash:

Recovery thingy deploys @3:26, and breaks off @5:00.
Needs more Blue Danube.


Ha! I was singing it to myself.

Better graphics than RAGE, but the physics are kinda meh. Needs more work.

>> ^Sagemind:

Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.


I thought the same thing, if that would of hit someone...ouch.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^Sagemind:
Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.

I thought the same thing, if that would of hit someone...ouch.


Was it just luck or does it guide itself at all on the way down? It just seems SO improbable that it would come back down so damned close!

then again knowing carmack the thing probably has 20 gps channels running and microsteering fins

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^Sagemind:
Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.

I thought the same thing, if that would of hit someone...ouch.

Was it just luck or does it guide itself at all on the way down? It just seems SO improbable that it would come back down so damned close!

1) wtf with not showing the camera video all the way to the ground???

2) they clearly suck at hollywood sound effects because the rocket thump happens at a realistic time after the impact

I'm surprised we couldn't hear a quick f-bomb from whoever was near that camera. Unless they were all hold up in a bunker somewhere, which would be understandable of course.

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^Sagemind:
Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.

I thought the same thing, if that would of hit someone...ouch.

Was it just luck or does it guide itself at all on the way down? It just seems SO improbable that it would come back down so damned close!
Do you actually think Carmack can design an engine nowadays that isn't on rails? Just because you can see all that landscape doesn't mean the rocket can actually go there. The only way back is through the same boring airspace it had already cleared.

> Do you actually think Carmack can

I dont need to read any further

YES

Carmack can

all hail carmack
<chest thump>

It's all about trajectory. You launch at an angle and force that compensates for drift and earth movement, etc. I bet they expected it to land anywhere within a few miles as it's a chute recovery system. Rockets don't fire on high-wind days because it throws trajectory off.

Yep, expert over here. This guy.>> ^Fletch:

>> ^ponceleon:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^Sagemind:
Actually, considering how high it went up, It's quite amazing how close to it's original launch site it landed.

I thought the same thing, if that would of hit someone...ouch.

Was it just luck or does it guide itself at all on the way down? It just seems SO improbable that it would come back down so damned close!
Do you actually think Carmack can design an engine nowadays that isn't on rails? Just because you can see all that landscape doesn't mean the rocket can actually go there. The only way back is through the same boring airspace it had already cleared.

>> ^Zawash:

Needs more Blue Danube.

Needs more Bobby Prince.

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The ultimate game of lawn darts.

This proves that Flat Earth guys theory.

>> ^MonkeySpank:

Better graphics than RAGE, but the physics are kinda meh. Needs more work.


Agreed, and what's up with the fake-as-shit lens flares? That's SO 2003.

I just love the underwhelming 'whump' as it eats the dirt...

Given the leadup, I was at least hoping for some sort of major explosion followed by a portal to the demon realm in the centre of the earth opening and spilling forth the apocalypse..

That pop at 6:10 is the sonic boom it makes while it is falling down.

If someone had gotten hurt, would it be fail? It looks pretty fail to me, even if it was only thousands of dollars of flattened equipment!

wow, terminal velocity can create sonic booms?

>> ^jmd:

wow, terminal velocity can create sonic booms?


If shaped and created the right way, yes. You just need to compensate for the flow of air on the object (since this thing is made to "slice" or "cut" through the air in the first place you can see why it might just end up doing what it did).