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SpaceX Falcon 1 Launch Live Thread (4 p.m. est)
03/24/06
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 03/24/2006 7:07:50 AM PST by KevinDavis
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To: The_Victor
Start-up organizations usually have to go for perfection as the more cost effective choice. Alas.... I just can't shake the feeling SpaceX didn't even do that. When they buckled their LOX tank last year, and only then announced they were going to do a full design review, I got the feeling that time was more important than perfection. Musk is undoubtedly trying to be first in what he sees to be an emerging market.
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posted on
03/24/2006 4:52:38 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: pbreed
Video up at www.nasaspaceflight.com, you have to join up as a member though, but its free.
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posted on
03/24/2006 4:53:08 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Stunned, he asked: "What do you call your act?" "The Aristocrats!")
To: Central Scrutiniser
A further look at the imagery seen from the onboard camera mounted to the Falcon 1 shows a noticeable change in the color and shape of the flame coming from the Merlin first stage main engine as the vehicle seemed to roll. Interesting. That sounds like a nozzle problem.
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posted on
03/24/2006 4:58:54 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
Nope, its the thermal blanket, it was supposed to come off at lift off, see how its dangling before the picture breaks up? That caused something else to go awry. Would like to see the ground video of it.
Then, near the end, you can see that the rocket is not flying up any more.
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:01:47 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Stunned, he asked: "What do you call your act?" "The Aristocrats!")
To: r9etb
You can see how the thrust suddenly goes to the lower left portion of the screen and then everything is out of control.
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:03:41 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Stunned, he asked: "What do you call your act?" "The Aristocrats!")
To: Central Scrutiniser; KevinDavis
Sorry, Lower right portion of the screen.
From another site:
Clean launch - but no blanket seporation
# Blanket starts coming off T +5 untill T +32
# Blanket dissapeares T + 33 untill +36
# Large flame to the right of the vehicle T +36 T +49
# White smoke from T +50 onwards.
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:07:00 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Stunned, he asked: "What do you call your act?" "The Aristocrats!")
To: Central Scrutiniser
Crap. An avoidable failure. Wonder if there was a "remove before flight" pin that somebody forgot....
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:52:16 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: KevinDavis
Oops. Maybe the web isn't such a bad hobby to have. ;')
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:26:31 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
To: beef; All
I have critize NASA when NASA needed to be critized i.e. the managers, not the rocket scientist..
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:12:29 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: Dead Corpse
[Nope. Still good. It's just that it is a lot shorter duration than initially offered and is now One Way.]
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:10:39 PM PST
by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
To: KevinDavis
Missed the live launch as I was spending quality time with my daughter
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