Posted on 06/29/2015 2:49:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As of early Monday morning, founder Elon Musk tweeted, no cause had been determined after ”several thousand engineering-hours” of review, meaning more than 100 engineers were working to investigate the problem. Investigators were using software to recover the "final milliseconds" before the explosion, he tweeted.
Officials have said that all nine of the rocket’s engines had fired normally and that the rocket's trajectory was “right on target.”
The Dragon capsule, which contained the cargo, was “healthy” and sending data back for “some time” after the incident, officials said.
The rocket was about 28 miles above Earth when it broke up.
Shortly after the crash Sunday, Musk tweeted that there had been an “overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Why can’ they make this work? I mean — it’s not rocket science ...
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe this is hard.
Yeah. It blew up. We know that.
The Germans and their early NASA trainees have been retired.
Mr. Jeff F yesterday guessed LOX tank rupture due to failed relief valve.
Insufficient gubermint subsidies....
I’ve been involved in dozens of these investigations over the years, and it really is tough. Data is generally sampled - not continuous, and tracing the problem through the data stream to the initial source is very tedious. We actually used the color of the plumb from photos as the final key in one investigation.
And the pressure is great!
Good luck to the team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K030HRTutU
They’ve been playing too much of Kerbal Space Program.
“We need more taxpayer money.”
I'm guessing you meant "color of the plume."
Didn't SSMEs keep running for something like 500 mS after the Challenger explosion?
Too many females on the assembly line, PROBABLY.
“Mr. Jeff F yesterday guessed LOX tank rupture due to failed relief valve.”
Foxworthy? Didn’t know he was a rocket scientist. If he is, good thing he kept his comedy gig.
Looks like the second stage ignited while still attached to the first. Whoops.
SpacEX-PLOSION.
A rotten month for America, capped by a rotten space ‘launch’.
Dear Christine Mai-Duc of the L.A.Times,
You wrote:
“shortly after the crash ...”
Once again, a woman reporter gets things wrong.
Must’ve been that ‘editorial relationship’, or something.
The darn thing disintegrated in a flash, 28 MILES ABOVE TERRA FIRMA!!!! There was NO ‘crash’.
I was watching it live, and it just went POOF in a heartbeat. No warning, no announcement of a sympton.
Look foooooorrrrrrr.... The union Labellllll.....
premature ignition
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