FAILURE. The Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated in the sky over Cape Canaveral about 2 minutes, 20 seconds after liftoff.
Posted on 06/28/2015 5:30:56 AM PDT by lbryce
Coverage begins at 9 am for the 10:21 am launch.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Well, this was completely unexpected!
It exploded?Gonna put the news on.
“Yes, a sprinkling of debris falling, falling”
It sure was. That was the first SpaceX launch my six year old was able to watch live, bad timing there...
Too bad, but it was unrealistic to think SpaceX would never have a single failure. I hope they got enough good telemetry to tell what went wrong, so it can be corrected for future flights.
It would be really bad if they determine that the first stage failed because of the design changes for re-usability.
It will be interesting to see the replay - huge plume and then just smoking pieces scattering in all directions.
FOXNEWS reports the rocket has exploded just after launch.
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It exploded almost two minutes into launch. Fox News isn’t a good source for much of anything.
Yes. Huge plume, but not a fireball.
It will be interesting to see the replay - huge plume and then just smoking pieces scattering in all directions.
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I noticed the vernier rockets fired very noticeably about 30 seconds before the failure.
Wow! It got a bit cloudy here and then I filmed a white trail from far away but it was so boring I turned the recording off. I came inside and saw on fr that it blew up! My friend outside said he saw the smoke!
Nothing on Fox now.
It would be really bad if they determine that the first stage failed because of the design changes for re-usability.
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It would, and it’s possible. They supposedly made a change in the throttle valve response on the first stage, and this was most likely a first stage failure.
In that picture it looks like the first stage is intact, and the disintegration is affecting the top part of the rocket.
Space launches are never routine since so many things can go wrong. I told you that you should have driven down there!
BTW, that was a paraphrase of what I thought I heard the launch control state.
Wow.
Yes, you are right. The first stage engines all look to be operating normally. Maybe it did come from the upper stage.
Thanks. I missed that.
My sense (and I could well be wrong!) was that the "smoke" was condensation from they cryogenic fuel and oxidizer hitting the moist Florida air.
There were no flaming debris falling, the bits and pieces seemed to be cold and trailing fog (for want of a better word). Eerie. I can't imaging how one could dump that much fuel and oxidizer next to nine rocket engines at full thrust and not get a massive fireball.
FWIW, today is supposedly Elon Musk’s birthday...
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