Questions tagged [rud]
"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" - a whimsical term, popularized by rocket scientists, for an explosion.
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Who coined the phrase 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly'?
Usually simply abbreviated as a RUD, and also sometimes expanded as Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, and being a way of understating that a rocket exploded.
I saw it attributed recently to Elon Musk, ...
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Where are the COPVs on Falcon 9's second stage?
Following the most recent Falcon 9 Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, Elon Musk tweeted that "There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause."
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