Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

SpaceX Successful Static Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

ron_ivi writes "SpaceX's website is announced that they had a " great static fire today" where their Falcon rocket successfully had 3 seconds of thrust. Nice pictures and video of the test; and if analysis shows all was well, they'll be launching Thursday."

3 of 122 comments (clear)

  1. It used to be... by guru+zim · · Score: 5, Funny

    It used to be a guy wouldn't brag if he only had 3 seconds of thrust.

  2. Re:If NASA designed cars by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your username is uniquely well suited to your post.

    --
    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  3. FIRE! by JonathanR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coming from the petrochem industry, I'm not used to seeing the words great, static and fire all in one sentence