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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese (interestingengineering.com)
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[โ€“] breadsmasher 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

maybe I missed it in the article - why was there a piece of cheese?

edit - immediately saw the reason after posting this comment

Strapping the cheese to the rocket โ€œwas purely for fun, but in the end, it allowed us to discover some limits to our design โ€“ notably for roll control,โ€ Marciacq said.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

kinda weird to make all this calculation and then just zip tie some bag of cheese on it

[โ€“] finkrat 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe a good thing in a weird way, at least in testing? Helps you plan for the unexpected

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