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Supply rocket bound for Space Station explodes (1 Viewer)

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Was this the one that was supposed to take off yesterday? I thought I missed it.

Unmanned, sounds like no injuries so far on the ground.

 
Might make for an interesting movie...

Think, "Stranded Uraguayan Rugby team meets Gravity."

 
I had this playing on a live feed on the way home yesterday. Tried to see the first launch that was scrubbed because of the boat. The fact that the 1st one was scrubbed by a boat made me scratch my head...you'd think if they can issue NOTAM's to pilots to stay away from that area, they'd have something similar for boats. But whatever...

I caught the feed on the countdown, and then...boom. It was interesting listening to the mission control folks live. After the explosion, there was about a minute of silence. Then, they started making calls about "staying at your panel" and later they were basically requesting quarantine of anything mission related. They said that all notes, handwritten or electronic, e-mails, and even the hard drives of anyone's PC's woudl be downloaded. Basically any information would be taken. They wanted "witness interviews," etc. I thought that was interesting. I'm sure there was a lot more chatter on internal feeds, but hearing that kind of stuff live w/o Media BS commentary was interesting.

 
Fat Nick said:
I had this playing on a live feed on the way home yesterday. Tried to see the first launch that was scrubbed because of the boat. The fact that the 1st one was scrubbed by a boat made me scratch my head...you'd think if they can issue NOTAM's to pilots to stay away from that area, they'd have something similar for boats. But whatever...

I caught the feed on the countdown, and then...boom. It was interesting listening to the mission control folks live. After the explosion, there was about a minute of silence. Then, they started making calls about "staying at your panel" and later they were basically requesting quarantine of anything mission related. They said that all notes, handwritten or electronic, e-mails, and even the hard drives of anyone's PC's woudl be downloaded. Basically any information would be taken. They wanted "witness interviews," etc. I thought that was interesting. I'm sure there was a lot more chatter on internal feeds, but hearing that kind of stuff live w/o Media BS commentary was interesting.
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yeah, some secret stuff going on. I'm guessing that the rocket contained a killer chili recipe.

 
Apparently the tech used in this type of rocket was discarded by the Soviets about 40 years ago because it was too unstable...

 
I know some people with some stuff on that rocket. Interns up here that were UTD students. They flew out to Florida to watch it go, but missed the launch because the first one got called off for a sailboat or something. oops

 
Did that dude (well I don't think we can consider him a dude any longer) really say holy mackerel. I thought that went out in the 60s.
 
I'm a student in the University of Texas' Aerospace Department. The RACE CubeSat, which was the main project of our Texas Space Lab for the last 4+ years, was on that rocket. 4+ years of research and development gone in 10 seconds because of something they had no control over.
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Holy #### that would suck.

 
culdeus said:
I know some people with some stuff on that rocket. Interns up here that were UTD students. They flew out to Florida to watch it go, but missed the launch because the first one got called off for a sailboat or something. oops
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Is Florida a good viewing spot for this? Or do they have missile control down there?

 
msommer said:
Apparently the tech used in this type of rocket was discarded by the Soviets about 40 years ago because it was too unstable...
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Well I wouldn't condemn this just for that. You know how the Soviets always went overboard on safety...

 
The accident was sure to draw criticism over the space agency's growing reliance on private U.S. companies in this post-shuttle era. NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it's counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017. This was the fourth flight by Orbital Sciences to the orbiting lab.
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I saw the ISS fly over the other night...I was surprised how bright it was, it was like the brightest star in the sky x 10 and took about 30 seconds to go from one end of the sky to the other.

 
Oops.

(CNN) -- After it became apparent there was a problem with the launch of the NASA-contracted Antares rocket, the company that operated the flight hit the destruct button, a spokesman said Thursday.

The flight termination system was engaged, confirmed Barron Beneski, vice president of corporate communications at Orbital Sciences Corp., in an email.

Mark Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and SpaceX advisory board member, said it was the right call.

"They commanded the destruct system to make sure it didn't wind up in a populated area when they knew it wasn't going to make it to orbit," he said.

The crash caused a spectacular fire and scattered debris over a large area.

The cargo module was carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments meant for the International Space Station.
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Sinn Fein said:
Not sure why its oops - sounds like someone made a quick call and potential averted a bigger issue.
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Not just a quick call. It's standard procedure to detonate these things if they are malfunctioning. The damage these things could do if they steer off path is so great that any divergence of the flight plan and they will blow them up immediately.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Sinn Fein said:
Not sure why its oops - sounds like someone made a quick call and potential averted a bigger issue.
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Not just a quick call. It's standard procedure to detonate these things if they are malfunctioning. The damage these things could do if they steer off path is so great that any divergence of the flight plan and they will blow them up immediately.
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Yep, unless the scene there was something like this.

 
Rayderr said:
Oops.

(CNN) -- After it became apparent there was a problem with the launch of the NASA-contracted Antares rocket, the company that operated the flight hit the destruct button, a spokesman said Thursday.

The flight termination system was engaged, confirmed Barron Beneski, vice president of corporate communications at Orbital Sciences Corp., in an email.

Mark Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and SpaceX advisory board member, said it was the right call.

"They commanded the destruct system to make sure it didn't wind up in a populated area when they knew it wasn't going to make it to orbit," he said.

The crash caused a spectacular fire and scattered debris over a large area.

The cargo module was carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments meant for the International Space Station.
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I know some debris was found at Inlet View Campgrounds which is a good distance away. Could have floated there possibly. Of course they're saying DON'T TOUCH!, could be hazardous. Things that make you go hmmm, or not.

 
It appears as though today's launch has exploded as well.

Was watching it live and somewhere north of 30kms up it's just suddenly disintegrated. No idea if the payload was launched into orbit prior.

 
How can they be going backwards in this area of "expertise"? These explosions are making NASA look like the old USSR. Its not supposed to be like this so what gives?

 
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