Questions tagged [rocket-explosion]
Questions about rockets exploding, either on the pad or in flight. Includes "fast-fires" and other "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" due to prompt, accidental release of stored energy.
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How can the elements involved in loading a LOX tank be involved in an explosion?
Since SpaceX has isolated the AMOS-6 Falcon 9 pad explosion to the upper stage LOX tank during fueling, it seems useful to consider in general terms what was happening at the time and what materials ...
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How did JPL detonate a liquid oxygen methane mixture with light?
This answer to Pre-mixing cryogenic fuels and using only one fuel tank quotes John D. Clark's Ignition! Chapter 11: The Hopeful Monoprops, and the quote includes the line:
How he avoided ...
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What was the cause of the second explosion in SpaceX's pad “Fast Fire”?
This is well after the first and second stage were gone, so I suspect it was something about the pad itself that resulted in the second explosion event. Any ideas?
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explosive force equivalent
i've seen 1 link that would direct me to a site that gave an equivalent of what would happen if a SATURN 5 let go on the pad, but not the Shuttle, was wondering what the force equivalent would be if ...
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Rocket explosion compared to kT of TNT; has one ever knocked something over at a distance?
The energy equivalent of 1 gram of TNT is about 1 kcal or large Calorie. For reference, 1 gram of carbohydrates gives us almost 4 Calories of energy (if we are lucky enough to use it and not store it)....
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How do HMX-fuelled rockets launch without exploding?
Unlike most civilian solid-fuel rockets, which use ammonium perchlorate/aluminium fuels with a rubber binder (known in the industry as ammonium perchlorate composite propellant, or APCP for short), ...
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How to judge the compatibility and veracity of Scott Manley's explanations for the SpaceX AMOS-6 anomaly?
I was recently caught off-guard by a proposed explanation for a SpaceX malfunction which seems to have turned out to have been a joke at probably my expense and no-one else's, meaning I completely ...
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How could a hydrazine and N2O4 cloud (or it's reactants) show up in weather radar?
Question: How could a hydrazine and N2O4 cloud (or it's reactants) show up in weather radar?
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This is what an ‘anomaly’ looks like on weather radar.
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Dragon's static ...
