Relativity Space launched their Terran 1 booster from Florida, but the 3D-printed rocket failed to reach orbit after suffering an anomaly in the second stage.
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NBC must know that worlds first 3d printed rocket already launched by India succefully ..
They will fail many times. But please dont give up.
"Fails to go to orbit." When in reality the title should be, "3D printed rocket makes history with a first successful launch."
Because the reality of it is that i don't think there has been a single time where a first launch for a new rocket has made it past a few seconds off countdown, let alone surpass their first and biggest goal of MaxQ. Yes, they were set up to try and go to orbit, but the goal was to prove that a 3D printed rocket can sustain the incredible stresses of a launch, and it did it beautifully. Neither SpaceX nor NASA can claim anything close to such a feat on their first ever go at a launch.
This a success in every way, not a failure.
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They retrieved good data, that was more likely than not, the expectation. Congratulations relativity space!
Can't believe something like that would happen so early. A huge step for full 3D rocket
Why people so offended lmao there's nothing wrong with the title
Big whoop. Rocket Lab and Spacex both do this. Not sure why they keep banking on that marketing point. It's just a marketing point. The other 2comlanies already have successful launches
Congratulations from a SpaceXer! As others have said, can't succeed without failure. Fail fast and iterate.
"were"
Equals a nano bot equals nano bot fuel to run a nano bot in a room?
Now that they've found a good use for methane does that mean that we don't have to eat bugs now?
Lol…
This is lazy reporting. @NBC please fix this. It failed to reach orbit but the structure was proven reliable. The structure performed through MAXQ – the maximum pressure phase – without blowing up. The second stage engine just failed to ignite.
It failed to reach orbit but two things happened:
1. The US proved the success of 3D printed rockets. This means that we can get to an even better and faster production and launch model. Imagine if you had all the automation of Relativity production with the proven success and reusability of Space X? Cheaper, Faster, Better – and on any planet.
2. The US put the first methane powered rocket into the sky before China. It's a win for mankind, and a win for the US space program.
Those are two huge scientific, engineering, and manufacturing milestones that were achieved.
GL;HF
My first application of my recent project was very successful but people do not tend to see success more than they see failure, if the rocket reaches the orbit it will not be on the news even if it is thousand times harder to succeed from the first experience than to make it from an old habit.
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People do not see straight lines they see the error "X".
Hey what happens now to the second stage? Did it fall back to earth? Is it in a low decaying orbit? Is it coming back down? If so, where?
I do not call it a failure to me it is a success
far enough we can shoot this rocket to Russia though
Ran out of ink!!!!!!!!
This is an actual massive step forwards in rocket technology.
Not only is 3D printing a grat way to reduce production costs but it also allows for engine designs that simply cannot be made with traditional methods, especially when it comes to cooling the engine by integrating the fuel lines directly within the engine structure. (Yes all rocket engines have to be cooled when they run by using it's own cryogenic fuel otherwise it melts)
When this productoin method matures it will make the long coveted aerospike engine design viable by combating it's cooling issues that it has when produced with traditional methods. Aeropike engines are vastly superior to bell engines becuase they have maximum efficiency at all altitudes. This saves A LOT of fuel and might even make SSTO technology viable.
Cool
Awesome great work guys 🎉
Keep trying
North Korea has better rocket cinematography than this amateur crap.
So awesome!
Still, an amazing accomplishment, congratulations on that whole trailblazing thing!
Don't we already have enough pollution in the Atlantic.
At least they could have aimed at that big pile of stinky seaweed 🙁
What an annoying ground crew. Wokery run amoke
That failure was due entirely to the mission control room staff, their lack of propriety and respect for tradition.. I don't see a single engineer with a buzz cut in mission control and not a single person was wearing a button down white shirt with a pocket protector. Space exp[oration has gone down the same deplorable degenerative spiral as the rest of the society. Shame on Relativity for not maintaining rigid dress codes like NASA. Other than that, congrats it got off the ground and failures are to be expected, even it wasn't 3-d printed.
It can only work if you try and keep at it. Good job.
Just release our 7th MODCAST episode where we talked about the rockets first attempts among other cool new things!
Was it casual Fridays in the command center ?
😂😂
Well, first stage works flawlessly, Let's hope they figure out why second stage fail to ignite.
NASCAR did their thing.
I remember a machinists saying that 3d printers couldn't replace them….seems like its getting closer everyday.
Why? All this money for what? More money? Seems like we've got other pressing issues to worry about. Like the fact that we're being invaded as we speak by Mexico and many other countries 🤷
All of these expensive failures…can we stop playing around? too many rocket failures for my taste in the last 5 years.
Hahaha 😆
Win some lose some.
GL HF
That's really good for 3d Printed rocket
It’s amazing what they can do with paper nowadays
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Cheese Moon isn’t a hoax, it’s a trap 🧀 🐀🐁 We’re all pawns. 👾
Not the worlds first 3D printed rocket Elon been launching 3D printed rockets for years now. This is like the 6 thousanth rocket that was 3D printed launched into space.
To infinity and beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!