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

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

maybe I missed it in the article - why was there a piece of cheese?

edit - immediately saw the reason after posting this comment

Strapping the cheese to the rocket “was purely for fun, but in the end, it allowed us to discover some limits to our design – notably for roll control,” Marciacq said.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago

kinda weird to make all this calculation and then just zip tie some bag of cheese on it

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

They're just doing debug Q&A on the rocket. Next time they're going to fill it with -1 gallons of fuel and see how far it goes.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Only one way to find out what happens if the thrusters are on upside down

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe a good thing in a weird way, at least in testing? Helps you plan for the unexpected

[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

"Europese most important rocket test" is clickbait-y in my opinion. It was the first hop up test. Nowhere near "the most important".

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