Comments on: Watch launch of next crew to Chinese space station https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-launch-of-next-crew-to-chinese-space-station/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 17:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-launch-of-next-crew-to-chinese-space-station/#comment-1207774 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 17:40:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=79837#comment-1207774 V-man, I would be surprised if the side boosters and first stage were actually tightly integrated, so a single sep could be a complex 4-body modeling job. Instead you might just model the interaction of one side booster and an integrated rocket body, assuming it happens twice, with no interaction between the two sides. Then as a separate exercise, you model the separation of the first and second stages.

]]> By: V-Man https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-launch-of-next-crew-to-chinese-space-station/#comment-1207745 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:39:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=79837#comment-1207745 Just saw the side boosters drop, followed one second later by the first stage. Why?

Why not drop the whole thing in one go? It would save the mass/complexity of the separation system.

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