>>>Oh so close: >>> >>>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20140116-falcon9-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly.html >>>http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-problem-falcon9-crash-landing-2015-1 >>> >>>They claim they know what went wrong, and that they've already fixed it. >>> >>>I'm starting to be impressed by these guys... >> >>Amazing that the landing platform sustained so little damage..... > >From the pics I saw, there isn't much on the platform that could be damaged. Also it seems there wasn't much fuel left in the stage (in a perfect world there would be none) so the explosion wasn't as big as it could have been. > >That said, explosions are funny things - I was taught that the forces generated usually follow the path of greatest resistance, which is a bit counterintuitive.
I guess that explains the typical 'safe-blower' scenario in movies where they simply stick a lump of plastic explosive on a big steel door and it blows the door off....
