Exos SARGE Launch Ends With Crash
The fourth launch of a suborbital SARGE rocket by Exos Aerospace ended with a crash of the booster near its launch pad after a brief flight at Spaceport America on Saturday.
The booster appeared to wobble as it gained altitude after lift off. Data displayed on the Exos website indicated that the rocket reached an altitude of 41,464 ft (12,638 m) and a velocity of 1,264 mph (2,034 k/h).
SARGE’s main stage crashed without its parachute deploying after a flight of less than 3.5 minutes. The nose cone had earlier separated and descended separately.
Exos cut off the webcast shortly afterward.
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Looks more like an axis failure than a feedback loop. Notice the corkscrew. It maintains steady geometry for a period and then loses control- I suspect after an attempt to intervene.
This seems to be one of those costly failures that can be corrected easily enough. Hopefully there will be future success for this platform.
Sure. If the money is there. This is a sounding rocket — and not a particularly successful one thus far. There are proven sounding rockets that you can depend on to get your payload to space.
Still- I would not like to see the company fail. I like the competition.
So? Always room for a system that is reusable and cheaper. Just like the small sat launchers. Hope they are successful!
Less Sarge and more Sad Sack, methinx