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The biggest failure was the delay in the flight termination system working. If it had sailed towards the town they might not have been able to terminate it in
by cma 3y ago
The biggest failure was the delay in the flight termination system working. If it had sailed towards the town they might not have been able to terminate it in time.
- foobarian 3y agoI would probably add the damage to the launch pad to the list. That seemed to add unnecessary delay to the next launch though I don’t know if it was the long pole or not.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThat was part of it, but the engine failures that immediately caused a loss of trajectory (it was visibly off even before it cleared the pad) were most likely the worst problem.
- mr_toad 3y agoThe engine failures didn’t cause the rocket to deviate significantly from its planned trajectory. The biggest failure was a fire causing the flight control system to lose communications with the engines, at which point the rocket was out of control.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIf the FTS would have triggered at a lower altitude it would have worked. The FTS was sufficient to protect the town.