Posted on 10/31/2014 11:51:32 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Rockets made by SpaceX haven’t crashed.
Let us go back to the moon.
Send the bill to Algore. He has millions in oil money, zinc mining and Jihad TV.
Do they normally detonate over a launch pad?
Until today.
By “They”, do you mean the hackers that did this?
Once problems with the launch became apparent?
The engines blew up, NK-33’s aren’t known for being good purchases.
Are you sure of that?
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2014/08/22/spacex-test-rocket-explodes-in-texas/14472939/
Bfl
Or muslims.
Somewhere, those obnoxious kids that want to be engineers when they grow up are trembling.
I watched the launch live over the Internet stream. I observed in the first few seconds of liftoff that raw kerosene was pouring from the spacecraft bypassing the engine and igniting in the exhaust plume. The rocket immediately lost lift and was falling back to the ground when range safety obviously detonated. So the press, not knowing anything, reports that the rocket exploded. Yes, it did, but that wasn’t the proximate cause of the failure which more likely was a rupture of the fuel line or a failure of the turbine fuel pump.
So why did it take them days to announce this?
Obviously they knew the button had been pushed almost immediately.
"Zero Zero Zero DESTRUCT Zero"
FTS initiation or not, still don’t know what the issue was.
I vote engine went to h**l.
Russian QC is um, a bit lax...
I think the rocket was already on the ground burning and coming apart before it was self destructed.
Orbital uses, or attempts to use, Russian engines that have been in storage in Siberia for 50 years.
Just cleaning up the mess caused by this one explosion will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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