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Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#101

Post by TorKlingberg »

batou wrote: post #52
batou wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* possibly getting to re-use the rocket. Good luck to everyone involved however; very exciting.

Damn now I feel bad for saying that.

Yeah, we all knew the return and landing part is new and uncertain, but I thought they would at least get to try.

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#102

Post by AYBABTME »

I'm very saddened at this event, it makes me worry about how future launches will go.

Will their customers agree for them to add landing legs to their future missions? Will their manned flights be delayed? How about their certification to launch for the USAF.

Also I'm not sure but, did I see the Dragon spacecraft eject?

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#105

Post by Laremere »

kid0m4n wrote: post #32

Yep... just saw... hate the silence on the stream Update: Looks like the explosion was triggered by Range Control in response to non nominal flight

Damn, that sucks, but not nearly as much as if it was a random explosion. I believe in this scenario, astronauts would be able to do an emergency separation, getting far away from the lower stage before it was detonated. My biggest worry from this is that human flights will be delayed (justly or unjustly.)

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#106

Post by alexggordon »

LesZedCB wrote: post #95

Does anybody have a way to watch the video again? I'm curious to watch it again now that I know what happened. I haven't watched many launches before so I didn't know if what was happening was routine or not. Though, admittedly, it was weird that one second there was a rocket, then the next there was only debris... edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s Thanks xur17!

Here's a second[0] video in case the first one goes down.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNymhcTtSQ

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#107

Post by _ouxp »

kid0m4n wrote: post #75
alexggordon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a source for that? It's really hard to differentiate between some guy on twitter and some guy that happens to work for SpaceX on twitter.

I heard this on the NASA stream... but don't quote me on this

Heard something similar on the stream just a few minutes ago. Something like: we are trying to correlate the timelines of data from Falcon to the timing of the Range Safety Officer ...(turning on?)... the flight termination system.

Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#109

Post by AYBABTME »

I'm very saddened at this event, it makes me worry about how future launches will go.

Will their customers agree for them to add landing legs to their future missions? Will their manned flights be delayed? How about their certification to launch for the USAF.

Also I'm not sure but, did I see the Dragon spacecraft eject?

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#110

Post by jerf »

So, the advantage of a weekend launch is that I could show my kids (boys 7 & 4), right?

Facepalm.

In the last few minutes, over a dozen K-Nex rockets have lifted off and exploded shortly after takeoff.

Sigh.

Not the best introduction to the second Space Age for them.... ah well, we'll try again later.

At least nobody was aboard.

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