I love these twists of the language, disguised as jargon.
It's like those "unexpected depressions in the road surface", that we call potholes. Ho-hum.
I believe it's a standard aerospace term. And it may not necessarily mean an explosion which is a specific word when you are doing science.
Oh, I know. But I quoted the article verbatim, yes, it was The Telegraph, they were not my words, and I appreciate its actual specific meaning. It's the incongruity when expressed in a 'civilian' context.
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SpaceX always call them that, what I was surprised about is that very few of the youtube channels that hang on their coat-tails seemed to have a video of the stream available yesterday ... they're not usually shy of the mistakes
Indeed. Could be 'coming apart from aerodynamic overload'. i.e.being shaken into pieces
There was a recent ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ of an RS-28 Sarmat MKBS[1] at Plesetsk, which didn’t do the silo or nearby buildings much good.
“Although the missile entered service in 2023, all subsequent attempts to test-fire operationally-ready missiles have failed”.
That case might be one of ‘progressive unscheduled disassembly’?
I think the term ‘disassembly’ is (deliberately?) misleading, as it is the reverse of a careful and organised process known as ‘assembly’, and which none of this type of event is.
Well that's a moot point. Its used in car crashes as well when things do tend to come apart, if the parts are stronger than the bolts...
I was thinking of that hackneyed phrase “Assembly is the reverse of disassembly”, but in these sorts of cases it certainly isn’t!
LOL
SOLD OUT! All purchased by Blue Horizon employees?
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