SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by tocs » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

Hate to see it also. It think things were going bad right from the beginning though (a completely uneducated guess).

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

#52

Post by batou » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

batou wrote: post #15

neals wrote: post #11

Elon Musk's 44th birthday today. Crazy way to celebrate that, right: Launching a rocket into space and getting to re-use the rocket.

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

Damn now I feel bad for saying that.

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by binoyxj » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

BREAKING: "The range confirmed that the vehicle has broken up. @SpaceX is putting together their anomaly team."

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

Meta: From many years of watching various rockets explode, I believe the correct euphemism is "catastrophic departure from controlled flight conditions"

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by daguava » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

batou wrote: post #15

neals wrote: post #11

Elon Musk's 44th birthday today. Crazy way to celebrate that, right: Launching a rocket into space and getting to re-use the rocket.

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

Not reusing that one :(

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by transfire » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

I sat here watching it go up and thought "please don't blow up. please don't blow up." I should have stayed in bed. Sorry all.

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

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

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Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by dasmoth » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

mabbo wrote: post #50

As the ship exploded, the words on the screen were something to the tune of "At this point, the ship is under the highest aerodynamic pressure".

From the timeline, and from remembering past launches, I'm pretty sure it was well past Max-Q.

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by robzyb » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

nkoren wrote: post #29

nkoren wrote: post #10

Gods, it feels good to see the future finally arrive. It's been a long time coming. Growing up in the 80s, I became quite bitter about the pace of technological change. Sure, personal computers were nifty , but the heroic age of spaceflight was really what the future should've been about. That age had ended with Apollo 17, three years before I was born. Everything since then looked like a shambolic shuffle into a new…

Addendum: well, crap. The future is still hard.

Your post was in my mind when I was watching the live stream. Your post was the first thing that I thought of when I realised what had happened.

Re: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

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Post by filvdg » Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:32 PM UTC

It looked like the exhaust fumes changed patern and than everything desintegrated ... maybe it autodistructed ... it did not look like it changed direction or anything before the explosion