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Yep... just saw... hate the silence on the stream Update: Looks like the explosion was triggered by Range Control in response to non nominal flight
by kid0m4n 11y ago
Yep... just saw... hate the silence on the stream
Update: Looks like the explosion was triggered by Range Control in response to non nominal flight
- onwardly 11y agoYeah- not much to say but the silence is sad. It looked like it was going well too...
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- kid0m4n 11y agoHope SpaceX bounces back with another launch. They were hoping to get the landing spot on today, and then this happens. I am feeling for the guys on the floor...
- alexggordon 11y agoDo you have a source for that? It's really hard to differentiate between some guy on twitter and some guy that happens to work for SpaceX on twitter.
- kid0m4n 11y agoI heard this on the NASA stream... but don't quote me on this
- jacquesm 11y agoYou're quoting yourself here, what do you mean? If you're not supposed to say this then simply don't or do it with a throwaway.
- mikeash 11y ago"Don't quote me" means something like, I am not a reliable source and I could be wrong.
- jacquesm 11y agoAh, I see. The English Language never ceases to surprise :)
- mikeash 11y agoYeah, that one is not very obvious. Think of it like a warning: "Don't quote me on this, because if you do, you might find yourself repeating incorrect information." A literal command of "don't quote me because I'm telling you something I shouldn't" would be something like, "Off the record, this is what happened." And yeah, that would be silly to say on the internet.
- Dylan16807 11y agoI would say that the literal aspect is the same no matter how you interpret it. It's just that jacquesm guessed the wrong reason for not quoting. It's still a command.
- jambo 11y agoHeard something similar on the stream just a few minutes ago. Something like: we are trying to correlate the timelines of data from Falcon to the timing of the Range Safety Officer ...(turning on?)... the flight termination system. Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."
- Laremere 11y agoDamn, that sucks, but not nearly as much as if it was a random explosion. I believe in this scenario, astronauts would be able to do an emergency separation, getting far away from the lower stage before it was detonated. My biggest worry from this is that human flights will be delayed (justly or unjustly.)
- ceejayoz 11y agoIt appears from the video that the Dragon capsule came off intact. Crewed abort probably would've been just fine, which is indeed a relief. After all, that's the point of it.
- sambe 11y agoDefinitely not an expert but to me it looked like initial, unexpected explosion/break-up then a second which could have been in response to the first.
- 001sky 11y agoThe lack of fragmentation from the first event suggests event #2 would have been range control. 23:44 23:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s
- TrevorJ 11y agoThey said in the press conference that it wasn't a commanded event.
- 001sky 11y agoPress conference said that range safety didn't command the FTS (flight termination system) and there is no data (yet) that FTS enabled, but that's doesn't mean the on-board FTS didn't activate itself. It certainly looked like a controlled explosion... Comment from Reddit that may be useful. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3bejxp/spacex_crs7_has_blown_up_on_launch/cslga2o https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3bejxp/spacex_crs7_h...
- TrevorJ 11y agoThey said at the press conference that this wasn't the case.