Rocket bound for Space Station explodes seconds after lift off.

Scarinae · 29-10-2014 01:50AM

I was following this too because it's relevant to my job. Check out this video from the press viewing site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI

("Holy mackerel!")

rebel girl 15 · 29-10-2014 01:51AM

Reading up on it, it was their first use of a bigger second stage, which would allow them to deliver bigger amounts of supplies in the future. It was a 15% increase on the load of previous missions

rebel girl 15 · 29-10-2014 01:55AM

Wonder would the day's delay in the launch be a contributing factor to any of it - the fact that some idiot in a boat decided to wander downrange of the launch yesterday which resulted in the launch being scrubbed

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html# has the press conference

vicwatson · 29-10-2014 01:56AM

Scarinae wrote: »

I was following this too because it's relevant to my job. Check out this video from the press viewing site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI

("Holy mackerel!")

"Oh god oh god oh god". This guy jerking off or what?

BlaasForRafa · 29-10-2014 01:56AM

The russkies aren't adverse to a crash now and then either..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyiglXHqbNw

refusetolose · 29-10-2014 01:58AM

conference coming on

http://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/

nokia69 · 29-10-2014 02:04AM

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Wonder would the day's delay in the launch be a contributing factor to any of it - the fact that some idiot in a boat decided to wander downrange of the launch yesterday which resulted in the launch being scrubbed

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html# has the press conference

it looks like a failure of one of the first stage engines

the delay would not have caused that

kneemos · 29-10-2014 02:15AM

Skylinehead wrote: »

Not really, at the end of the day it's still 200 tons of explosive in a tube.

Yeah baby.

Lapin · 29-10-2014 02:18AM

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Orbital Science Corporation have a $1.3 billion contract with NASA to deliver 8 supply rockets to the ISS. This was the third of the 8 to go up. NASA confirmed that there was no personnel injury on Wallops Island, Virginia.

Well, I suppose if you're gonna have a milti million dollar rocket get blown to smithereens and come crashing back down to earth, where better for it to happen than a place called Wallop Island !

Karl Stein · 29-10-2014 02:18AM

More proof that the Americans never actually went to space. It's a disgrace that they spend so much money blowing up rockets in an attempt to convince the public they did land men on other planets.

fleet_admiral · 29-10-2014 02:23AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

More proof that the Americans never actually went to space. It's a disgrace that they spend so much money blowing up rockets in an attempt to convince the public they did land men on other planets.

Here we go

Karl Stein · 29-10-2014 02:27AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Here we go

They were found out when Neil Armstrong and the other actors came back and they were obviously much bigger than the space suits that 'returned' with them.

It turned out the space suits had already been manufactured for a planned Gorilla launch that never went ahead - the idiots at NASA used the Gorilla suits for the whole charade to save money.

endacl · 29-10-2014 02:29AM

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallops_Flight_Facility

Not really surprising. Rocket explodes. At Wallops flight facility!

WTF did they think would happen? Operations are to be moved to B'doingggg naval base, where it is hoped malfunctioning rockets will simply bounce into orbit.

:pac:

Lapin · 29-10-2014 02:31AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

More proof that the Americans never actually went to space. It's a disgrace that they spend so much money blowing up rockets in an attempt to convince the public they did land men on other planets.

Grand, so they were just sending the yoke up there to supply a space station they never sent up in the first place.

They never claimed to put men on other planets. (Although you sound like you're on a different one already).

I can't believe I replied to this rubbish.

Karl Stein · 29-10-2014 02:37AM

Lapin wrote: »

Grand, so they were just sending the yoke up there to supply a space station they never sent up in the first place.

It's quite obviously a controlled explosion.

They never claimed to put men on other planets. (Although you sound like you're on a different one already).

Please don't insult me.

Lapin · 29-10-2014 02:46AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Please don't insult me.

Right. You're not from another planet then. Ok.

Wanna discuss the moon instead?

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kneemos · 29-10-2014 02:48AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

They were found out when Neil Armstrong and the other actors came back and they were obviously much bigger than the space suits that 'returned' with them.

It turned out the space suits had already been manufactured for a planned Gorilla launch that never went ahead - the idiots at NASA used the Gorilla suits for the whole charade to save money.

Why the fcuk would they launch a Gorilla into space.
You ever seen a Gorilla?big,aggressive.Much bigger than a male so the suits were obviously not for Gorillas.

Bipolar Joe · 29-10-2014 02:49AM

Of course they put man on the moon, how else did they build the alien research facility where they clone world leaders? Fucking DUH!

YFlyer · 29-10-2014 02:51AM

vicwatson wrote: »

"Oh god oh god oh god". This guy jerking off or what?

Danger ****

Crasp · 29-10-2014 02:54AM

Be very unfortunate if this explosion had been visible from space...

rebel girl 15 · 29-10-2014 02:59AM

Crew were told about the explosion - apparently were disappointed but got on with their jobs.

They got the question regarding the engines as well, which was interesting.

YFlyer · 29-10-2014 02:59AM

Crasp wrote: »

Be very unfortunate if this explosion had been visible from space...

Yeah hopefully they have enough supplies at ISS.

Or you means Aliens will be amused with our space flight technology. We're all going to die.

Karl Stein · 29-10-2014 02:59AM

kneemos wrote: »

Why the fcuk would they launch a Gorilla into space.
You ever seen a Gorilla?big,aggressive.Much bigger than a male so the suits were obviously not for Gorillas.

The Russians launched a Monkey so the Americans decided to one-up and launch a Gorilla. Gorillas are also close to the size of humans so were able to use the flight controls as if they were human. It wasn't called the space race for nothing. :rolleyes:

rebel girl 15 · 29-10-2014 03:06AM

YFlyer wrote: »

Yeah hopefully they have enough supplies at ISS.

Or you means Aliens will be amused with our space flight technology. We're all going to die.

They have enough supplies to last until March

SpaceX launch in December, any "urgent item" will be taken, oxygen resupply unit will be taken from that payload and the nitrogen resupply unit put in as it was lost on that launch - that was one example given in the press conference

Antar Bolaeisk · 29-10-2014 03:09AM

Happens to me all the time, I've lost so many Kerbals.

--LOS-- · 29-10-2014 04:07AM

Senna wrote: »

Jesus the Russians knew how to build something right the first time.

Edit. obviously except for the huge failure today

nokia69 wrote: »

it looks like a failure of one of the first stage engines

the delay would not have caused that

This article was speculating about the stage 2 motor. There had already been 4 successful Antares launches with 2 different motors, this was the first one to use a bigger, more powerful motor. Stage 2 doesn't really come into affect until a few minutes into mission though, something went wrong after about 15 seconds (?) into the first stage. Those AJ-26 engines have failed twice before during tests, the last time before an Antares launch last July, the launch was delayed a bit but was cleared, they didn't reveal the cause of that one but in 2011 it was simple metal corrosion. They are in the spotlight now for sure.

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Wonder would the day's delay in the launch be a contributing factor to any of it - the fact that some idiot in a boat decided to wander downrange of the launch yesterday which resulted in the launch being scrubbed

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html# has the press conference

Nah delays are pretty common

darkpagandeath · 29-10-2014 04:38AM

You do Realise the contracts for space programs are given to the companies that can produce the product the cheapest.

nokia69 · 29-10-2014 04:39AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

You do Realise the contracts for space programs are given to the companies that can produce the product the cheapest.

not true

cost is not the only thing that gets contracts

darkpagandeath · 29-10-2014 04:45AM

nokia69 wrote: »

not true

cost is not the only thing that gets contracts

Really try looking up Orbital Sciences Corp

nokia69 · 29-10-2014 04:49AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Really try looking up Orbital Sciences Corp

they are not the lowest cost launcher in the US

Rocket bound for Space Station explodes seconds after lift off.

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