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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 1 day ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca

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[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They were able to engineer and build a hopping propulsion system, but none of them realized the cheese would cause flight instability?

[–] yuri@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

they didn’t realize the instability would be a huge issue for their rcs to overcome. in the end they actually learned more about the capabilities of their system because of the cheese!