What Went Wrong On Firefly's 6th Rocket Flight? Did The Nozzle Fall Off The Second Stage?
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Scott Manley is someone who fell into YouTube because he felt a deep compelling need to teach people orbital mechanics and rocket science so they could play Kerbal Space Program, now, years later the gaming videos are less important and the pure science is the main thrust. My degrees are all in Physics and Astronomy, so much of the rocket science and engineering I've learned is self taught, always learning, always teaching. I used to do this as a hobby, along with my day job in software development, but that recently came to an end and I'm really appreciating everyone who has chosen to support my work through Patreon.
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On April 29th Firefly launched their alpha rocket with a payload for Lockheed Martin, but something appeared to go wrong during stage separation and the nozzle extension from the second stage was lost. This reduced the engine performance to the point that it was unable to reach orbit.. Let's look at what we have and see if we can figure out what happened. Addendum, I'm pretty sure there's no piston pusher system on Firefly's alpha, since we see the nozzle vectoring inside the interstage on flight 2, so maybe they just blow gas inside the interstage to push the stages apart like a cork being blown out of a bottle? Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
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