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SpaceX Set Back
« on: September 01, 2016, 10:26:36 AM »
http://www.newson6.com/story/32948034/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-site-in-florida-during-test

Testing prior to a scheduled launch on Saturday to place an Israeli satellite into orbit.

Going to be interesting to see what happened.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2016, 10:47:37 AM »
What happened?  It went kaboom!  That's what happened. :O
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2016, 11:14:30 AM »
Quote from: Fly320s on September 01, 2016, 10:47:37 AM
What happened?  It went kaboom!  That's what happened. :O

Reminds me of a video I saw once, NASA launch, rocket blew up just off the pad....   Lady is in the middle of announcing "Liftoff, we have liftoff of blahblahblahblahblah"  and then kaboom.....  Then in the same calm voice she begins to say "We have had an anomaly....."  while it's literally raining fire.

ETA:  found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA

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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2016, 11:37:09 AM »
Quote from: AmbulanceDriver on September 01, 2016, 11:14:30 AM
Reminds me of a video I saw once, NASA launch, rocket blew up just off the pad....   Lady is in the middle of announcing "Liftoff, we have liftoff of blahblahblahblahblah"  and then kaboom.....  Then in the same calm voice she begins to say "We have had an anomaly....."  while it's literally raining fire.

ETA:  found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA




To be fair, raining fire is anomalous.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2016, 01:02:30 PM »
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In a statement, the company blamed the blast on "an anomaly" and said no-one had been injured.

Gee, that's informative.  As opposed to a routine explosion totally destroying a rocket and payload.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-just-exploded-at-cape-canaveral/

Radar imagery shows a small cell passing over just before the smoke plume starts.  Wonder if it could have been lightning related.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2016, 01:51:15 PM »
Quote from: KD5NRH on September 01, 2016, 01:02:30 PM
Gee, that's informative.  As opposed to a routine explosion totally destroying a rocket and payload.

To be fair, they haven't had time to do the investigation to really figure out what happened, much less run it through engineer to human translators to get an explanation of the cause normal people can understand as opposed to rocket scientists.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2016, 02:01:00 PM »
Quote from: Firethorn on September 01, 2016, 01:51:15 PM
To be fair, they haven't had time to do the investigation to really figure out what happened, much less run it through engineer to human translators to get an explanation of the cause normal people can understand as opposed to rocket scientists.

Big rocket go boom. Much bad.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2016, 02:09:20 PM »
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2016, 02:19:03 PM »
Quote from: Firethorn on September 01, 2016, 01:51:15 PM
To be fair, they haven't had time to do the investigation to really figure out what happened, much less run it through engineer to human translators to get an explanation of the cause normal people can understand as opposed to rocket scientists.

"Normal" people are either not going to care or assume it's a conspiracy anyway.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2016, 03:43:34 PM »
Interesting, the explosion started on the 2nd stage, or at the couplings for fuel/LOX/pressurization with the gantry. That's not to say other problems or events could be the root cause, but it certainly didn't LOOK like it started with the Falcon 9 first stage.

(I'm unclear if it was their first attempt at re-use of a landed stage or not...)

https://youtu.be/_BgJEXQkjNQ
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2016, 03:46:21 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on September 01, 2016, 03:43:34 PM
Interesting, the explosion started on the 2nd stage, or at the couplings for fuel/LOX/pressurization with the gantry. That's not to say other problems or events could be the root cause, but it certainly didn't LOOK like it started with the Falcon 9 first stage.

(I'm unclear if it was their first attempt at re-use of a landed stage or not...)

https://youtu.be/_BgJEXQkjNQ

I believe they've already re-used a landed stage, but have not yet done commercial lifting with one.

And, looking around: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-explosion-live-spacex-explosion-did-not-involve-a-1472743403-htmlstory.html

Not a reused rocket.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2016, 04:15:21 PM »
Anyone else notice how the pylons on top of the lighting protection towers started smoking from the thermal pulse of the explosion despite how no flames or blast touched them?

Damn.

I wonder how far away you could have been and still felt some heat on your face from that.

And I learned a new industry term. "RUD" for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

Not really related to the incident at hand... but I heard another new term, a bit more black humor, for when a spacecraft or rocket crashes into the surface of a planet. "Lithobraking".  =D
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2016, 05:06:23 PM »
So, what sort of alien/conspiracy rumors do we want to start?

First thought; the "lightning protection towers" were really part of a secret military weapon designed to destroy rockets, and this was the first close-range test.  The "satellite" payload didn't really exist, but is just part of the cover story they paid off Facebook to go along with.  At some point in the next couple of years, another factory second rocket will explode well away from the pad as the military tests the more practical long range version of the weapon.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2016, 06:07:40 PM »
About 3 1/2 seconds to go from rocket to little bits of metal waiting for gravity to finish with them.
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2016, 06:15:08 PM »
Quote from: AmbulanceDriver on September 01, 2016, 11:14:30 AM
Reminds me of a video I saw once, NASA launch, rocket blew up just off the pad....   Lady is in the middle of announcing "Liftoff, we have liftoff of blahblahblahblahblah"  and then kaboom.....  Then in the same calm voice she begins to say "We have had an anomaly....."  while it's literally raining fire.

ETA:  found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA

About that - guy's truck windows melted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJP5ncnLwgE

(He mentions the truck toward the end of the video.)
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2016, 06:22:35 PM »
Quote from: fistful on September 01, 2016, 06:15:08 PM
About that - guy's truck windows melted:

That's got to be fun to explain to the insurance company.

"Am I covered for rocket damage?"
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2016, 09:06:39 PM »
Quote from: fistful on September 01, 2016, 06:15:08 PM
About that - guy's truck windows melted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJP5ncnLwgE

(He mentions the truck toward the end of the video.)

The call to the insurance company about his truck had me cracking up.  :rofl:
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Re: SpaceX Set Back
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2016, 10:58:28 PM »
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