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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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 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 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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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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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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Are rocket self-destruct systems ever flight-tested/flight-proven?
Under the question SN11 was launched in fog. Why not wait for better conditions? I wrote the comment:
armchair totally unsupported theory: the fog presented an opportunity to test the emergency self-...
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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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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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Super Heavy explosion, how much TNT equivalent would that be?
If the Super Heavy booster explodes, fully loaded, how strong would the blast yield be?
How far would the shock wave reach?
How does this compare to the N1 RUD's and to other non-nuclear explosions?
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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 fire ...
