Keith_McClary wrote:SpaceX Falcon rocket destroyed shortly after liftoff from Florida
Rocket was carrying supplies to International Space Station
Thomson Reuters Posted: Jun 28, 2015
Welcome to the real world.
Keith_McClary wrote:SpaceX Falcon rocket destroyed shortly after liftoff from Florida
Rocket was carrying supplies to International Space Station
Thomson Reuters Posted: Jun 28, 2015
dissident wrote:Welcome to the real world.
Keith_McClary wrote:SpaceX Falcon rocket destroyed shortly after liftoff from Florida
Rocket was carrying supplies to International Space Station
Thomson Reuters Posted: Jun 28, 2015
The station crew has about four months of food and supplies on board, so the accident would not pose an immediate problem. However, NASA's second cargo line, run by Orbital ATK, remains grounded following a launch accident in October. In April, a Russian Progress cargo ship also failed to reach the station.
Elon Musk @elonmusk 23h23 hours ago
Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data.
Elon Musk @elonmusk 22h22 hours ago
There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause.
Elon Musk @elonmusk 22h22 hours ago
That's all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis.
Elon Musk @elonmusk 6h6 hours ago
Cause still unknown after several thousand engineering-hours of review. Now parsing data with a hex editor to recover final milliseconds.
StarvingLion wrote:His cars explode
His rockets explode
Won't be long until...
"Explosion at the Gigafactory...."
Elon Musk Crematorium Corp
Sixstrings wrote:Elon Musk @elonmusk 6h6 hours ago
Cause still unknown after several thousand engineering-hours of review. Now parsing data with a hex editor to recover final milliseconds.
AgentR11 wrote:Well, to be honest, I was giving Six the benefit of the doubt; I thought for sure he'd come on here and complain loudly that US space technology is failing horribly and we're all doomed to join the ludites or something. Russia blew up a rocket and you would have thought they'd lost the ability to continue space exploration.
Why SpaceX will sort out Sunday's snafu faster than NASA ever could
Second stage flaw fingered for fireworks
The accident itself was a disaster, and a very unfortunate birthday present for Elon Musk, who turned 44 that day. It had been hoped he'd celebrate by seeing the first-ever landing of a Falcon rocket on SpaceX's landing barge Of Course I Still Love You. Instead he got fireworks of a different persuasion.
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The advantages of single-source suppliers
There are going to be a few sleepless nights at SpaceX in the coming days as engineers and designers go through the sensor data piece by piece. Musk is known for working his staff hard and this problem needs to be sorted out quickly.
And it will be, because unlike NASA, SpaceX has a huge advantage in dealing with problems. NASA rockets are put together using machinery from hodgepodge of private contractors, all with their own design and build teams – and their own internal politics, not to mention dealing with national politicians with an axe to grind.
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The company is packed with highly motivated individuals and has a very flat management structure. Mistakes made are owned up to, and when the issue that caused the loss of the Falcon is identified, you can bet it will be dealt with quickly.
The current SpaceX resupply missions are on hold while this process is worked through. But you're not going to see the kind of dithering that left the Space Shuttles grounded for 32 long months. If I were a betting man I'd guess the next Falcon will fly in 32 weeks, and maybe sooner.
Getting into space is a tough business. There are few rocket systems that haven't had a failure at one time or another. While SpaceX is smarting from this first failure to deliver, the company is going to come back with a vengeance.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/why_spacex_will_sort_out_sundays_snafu_faster_than_nasa_ever_could/
National Security After the SpaceX Explosion
Congress’s demand to cease using Russian engines may leave the military dependent on unproven rockets.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB12367224787933994021304581062191281870326
SpaceX Failure Doesn’t Mean We Should Turn To Russia For Rocket Engines, McCain Says
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/30/spacex-failure-doesnt-mean-we-should-turn-to-russia-for-rocket-engines-mccain-says/
SpaceX flameout hardly heralds failure
The latest flameout spoils that record but shouldn’t materially harm the firm’s prospects. About 5 percent of all rocket launches failed last year.
http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/06/29/spacex-flameout-hardly-heralds-failure/
Sixstrings wrote:Overall -- it's a darn shame it happened. Even if they do get back on track "within 32 weeks" -- that's still a massive setback. They had launches booked for years on out.
The company will survive, though. They've go the nasa contracts, they just got USAF approval before this thing happened. Google put in a billion dollars. They can't have more failures though, that's for sure..
They've had a lot of successful launches and deliveries back and forth.. air force does need these rocket engines.. can't just be dependent on Putin, better to figure out the problem, put the money in, fix it.
AgentR11 wrote:Space flight is *hard*.
dinopello wrote:AgentR11 wrote:Space flight is *hard*.
It's really only hard because of gravity. If we could figure that out, there's a lot more time we cwould be spending in space.
dinopello wrote:AgentR11 wrote:Space flight is *hard*.
It's really only hard because of gravity. If we could figure that out, there's a lot more time we cwould be spending in space.
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