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SpaceX attempts second platform landing
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Posted 2015-04-17, 03:47 AM in reply to
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"Have they isolated what went wrong?"
There was a tweet from Musk blaming a sticky valve ("stiction in the biprop throttle valve, resulting in control system phase lag"), but it was deleted pretty quickly. I think the only 'official' statement is: "excessive lateral velocity".
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