October 28, 201411 yr NASA's unmanned Antares rocket explodes on launch Looks like it is MREs for the Space Station crew for a while.
October 28, 201411 yr Orbital had a problem earlier this year with an engine exploding on the test stand. Looks like it happened again. As a side note, these engines are the same type of engines intended to be used in the Soviet N1 moon rocket which failed four times before being cancelled.
October 28, 201411 yr Author Orbital had a problem earlier this year with an engine exploding on the test stand. Looks like it happened again. As a side note, these engines are the same type of engines intended to be used in the Soviet N1 moon rocket which failed four times before being cancelled. Well, back to the drawing board... Come on guys, this isn't rocket science! Oh, wait.....
October 28, 201411 yr https://news.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2014/10/28/virginia-launch-fails-rocket-explodes-at-liftoff/https://youtu.be/YYeWdukr3Ik Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
October 29, 201411 yr Should have gone with the Air Force/ULA. 70+ consecutive successful launches and counting.
October 29, 201411 yr Orbital had a problem earlier this year with an engine exploding on the test stand. Looks like it happened again. As a side note, these engines are the same type of engines intended to be used in the Soviet N1 moon rocket which failed four times before being cancelled.
October 29, 201411 yr Awaiting response from Elon to offer to quick-turn Dragon and send it back up......
October 29, 201411 yr Awaiting response from Elon to offer to quick-turn Dragon and send it back up...... "One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the 60s. I dont mean their design is from the 60sI mean they start with engines that were literally made in the 60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere." -Musk in 2012 wired interview
October 30, 201411 yr From what i understand was that the ground crew initiated the abort but i cant find the article now...
October 30, 201411 yr The FTS signal was sent at T+20, almost the same instant it settled back to the ground.
October 30, 201411 yr From what i understand was that the ground crew initiated the abort but i cant find the article now... They are probably "Go" oriented from about ignition +1 anyway.
October 30, 201411 yr The FTS signal was sent at T+20, almost the same instant it settled back to the ground. Why would they send teh FTS after explosion ;)
October 30, 201411 yr probably something technical like "fuck this shit" Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
October 30, 201411 yr ULA didn't bid for CRS. Yeah, I just like promoting AFSPC. Did I mention the 45th Space Wing successfully launched another GPS-IIF yesterday? What's a FTS signal? Flight termination software/system/signal. A dude sits by a red button and if the launch vehicle leaves the flight envelope or nominal flight profile he sends the command to terminate the launch i.e. blows shit up. Rockets are fast and they could destroy a populated area, so the moment it leaves controlled flight, it gets exploded.
October 30, 201411 yr probably something technical like "###### this shit" Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App! this comment lol. what Gravedigger said is correct. I was reading an article that was saying that the rockets was off trajectory. Unfortunately the media just spams us with "Those damn soviet engines Putin sold us in the 90s are shit" rather then what is actually going on with the investigation
October 31, 201411 yr Flight termination software/system/signal. A dude sits by a red button and if the launch vehicle leaves the flight envelope or nominal flight profile he sends the command to terminate the launch i.e. blows shit up. Rockets are fast and they could destroy a populated area, so the moment it leaves controlled flight, it gets exploded. Unless you're China. Turn your speakers down for the first :45, the noise is horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ9ue6GKek The backstory... Edit: format Edited October 31, 201411 yr by JarheadBoom
October 31, 201411 yr Incredible video from NASA TV. Full-screen, speakers on, and skip to 2:50 for the actual launch (Gravedigger, don't skip. ). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdFu40_aL7w From this perspective, it didn't appear that anyone hit the red "blow shit up" button, nor did I hear the word "terminate" in the audio. [speculation] To me, it looked more like the engines lost power; maybe LOX flow stopped or turbopumps shit the bed. At 3:07 there was a small burst of some sort, the exhaust plume got very dirty yellow, and the stack descended back to ground, exploding on impact. [/speculation]
October 31, 201411 yr just read a national geographic article about the incident and they were talking about the abort system. ill watch to see if maybe a faulty system was at play.
October 31, 201411 yr High-res (3000 x 2000) NASA photo of the pad, and the damage/debris left behind: Edited October 31, 201411 yr by JarheadBoom
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