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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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maybe I missed it in the article - why was there a piece of cheese?
edit - immediately saw the reason after posting this comment
kinda weird to make all this calculation and then just zip tie some bag of cheese on it
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.
Only one way to find out what happens if the thrusters are on upside down