Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/how-cheese-slice-almost-derailed-rocket-test

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18774034

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9 Comments

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The cheese was strapped before hand “for fun”

Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I can't fathom what kind of idiot would risk the whole project for the sake of the lamest "joke" ever and why the fuck everyone else just let this happen.

a1studmuffin@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It was an un-Brie-lievably stupid risk.

SpermGoobler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

It wasn't a Gouda idea

AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

At least it wasn’t a roadster

Antiproton@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They were able to engineer and build a hopping propulsion system, but none of them realized the cheese would cause flight instability?

yuri@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y

they didn’t realize the instability would be a huge issue for their rcs to overcome. in the end they actually learned more about the capabilities of their system because of the cheese!

bacon_saber@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1y

Turns out Pinky wasn't actually pondering what Brain was pondering.

Hagdos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

"Europe's most important rocket test" is quite an overstatement for a student project.