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SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure
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#152"Non nominal flight"
What does it mean?
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#153Does 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
Based on that, one can clearly see by stepping frame by frame at 3:20 disintergration of what i imagine must be second stage fueltanks. Difficult to say if it is oxygen or kerosene, but since its expanding so rapidly it would seem likely that its a oxygen tank.
But nevertheless its just guessing from me and im no expert.
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#154Crazy how little actual conflagration there is. I would have expected a big fireball when that much RP-1 and LOX explodes. I mean the entire second stage's fuel exploded.
Edit: Here's a Titan 1, which was fueled with RP-1 and LOX exploding on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzigaTSPZY
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#155So what's going to happen to the astronauts aboard the ISS - this was a resupply mission. How much longer can they stay up there with their current supplies?
There's a crew return vehicle docked to ISS - in case they have to evacuate.
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#157So, 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.
Likewise, I got my wife and daughters up to watch this. I don't totally regret it, but I feel I let them down a little.
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#158My thoughts go out to the SpaceX team. Must be devastating to see your hard work blow up :-(
Well, it is rocket science, and even though SpaceX has a higher reliability target, accidents do happen
Space is certainly hard, even for those that people might assume are good at it (NASA, Roscosmos, etc.). This failure is a likely setback for man-rating the falcon in the future.
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#159So honey, how was the launch today?
We had a blast!
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#160Poor Microsoft HoloLens