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Falcon 9 Delivers Dragon Into Orbit, Flubs Landing
Jeff Findley wrote on Fri, 7 Dec 2018
07:17:04 -0500: In article , says... Niklas Holsti wrote on Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:01:58 +0200: On 18-12-06 13:06 , Jeff Findley wrote: Also, the stage managed to land very well on the ocean (as can be seen in a video posted by an observer on social media). SpaceX also released the on board camera footage from the stage which showed that once the landing burn started, the engines were able to negate the roll caused by the stuck grid fin. I thought the landing uses only one engine, therefore probably the center engine -- then how can the engine control roll? I don't understand. The same way any other single engine booster controls roll, I would think. The engine gimbals. That would be a neat trick. Or not. On Falcon 1, that version of Merlin had a gimbal on the turbo-pump exhaust for roll control. As far as I know, they deleted that feature on Merlins used for Falcon 9 since the extra complexity wasn't needed anymore. Wiki indicates that the ability to gimbal was removed as of the Merlin 1C engine. Everything else I find, including the Payload User's Guide, indicates that the Merlin 1D engines on a Falcon 9 do indeed still have the ability to gimbal and gimballing is used to control pitch, yaw, and roll for the first stage. -- "Now I'm hiding in Honduras. I'm a desperate man. Send lawyers, guns and money. The **** has hit the fan." -- "Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money", Warren Zevon |
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