Who coined the phrase Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly? Usually simply abbreviated as a RUD, and also sometimes expanded as Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, and being a way of understating that a rocket exploded I saw it attributed recently to Elon Musk, but although he has popularized the phrase among the public, when he mentioned it once in a speech I saw he simply said it is how the engineers on the
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Super Heavy explosion, how much TNT equivalent would that be? If the Super Heavy booster explodes, fully loaded, how strong would the blast yield be? How far would the shock wave reach? How does this compare to the N1 RUD's and to other non-nuclear explosio
How does a modern day satellite fall apart in space? 18 How does a modern day satellite fall apart in space? This generic question is answerable They blow up, aka rapid unplanned disassembly (RUD) but due to a large number of causes Or parts fail slowly and the vehicle eventually loses structural integrity There are lots and lots of things that can go wrong on objects in space
What is the advantage of doing a static test fire before launch? But with the payload in place, RUD during the test fire is hardly a better outcome than RUD during launch I would also expect there to be at least some "bad luck" failure modes that occur only rarely, and are difficult to detect before they do occur (meaning that a test fire before launch effectively just doubles the risk of those failure modes)
orbital mechanics - Space Exploration Stack Exchange If you go horizontal, in most places you'll hit something hard like a mountain which will slow you down pretty quickly (called lithobreaking in the community) which usually leads to a RUD (Rapid, unscheduled disassembly) of your vehicle
Where are the COPVs on Falcon 9s second stage? Data suggests counterintuitive cause " This article mentions "a potential pointer towards the helium pressurization system’s bottles in the Second Stage" or " Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels " (COPV) Where are these on the upper stage? How likely is it that this could have played a role in the RUD?