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Analysis of the Falcon 9 Crash Landing
written by Rhett J. Allain
The Falcon 9 booster attempts to land on a barge after launching a rocket.  Here is a Tracker video analysis experiment archive of a failed attempt.  Load this file into Tracker to view the analysis.
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This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivatives 3.0 license.
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Rhett Allain
Keywords:
angular acceleration, video analysis
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Metadata instance created April 23, 2015 by Rhett Allain
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April 26, 2023 by Douglas Brown
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April 15, 2015
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Allain, Rhett J.. Analysis of the Falcon 9 Crash Landing. April 15, 2015. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13434&DocID=4036 (accessed 1 May 2025).
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