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REPLAY: Astra Rocket tumbles again during NASA launch (12 Jun 2022) [YouTube Video of Failure after otherwise successful launch]
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| June 12, 2023
| Raw Space
Posted on 06/12/2022 12:15:30 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
This is a replay of the live stream. The upper stage engine shut down early, causing a mission failure. Launch window: 12:00 - 2:00 pm EDT (16:00 - 18:00 UTC) Launch site: SLC-46, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida Destination: Low Earth Orbit A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will launch the first pair of small CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. Delayed from April.
Thanks to NASASpaceflight and Chris Bergin for the coverage.
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: alabama; astra; elonmusk; failure; launch; musk; nasa; richardshelby; spacex; starlink; tesla
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[ The actual veer-off/failure occurred in space during a separation event, seen at 2:19:50 of the video in question-Best Regards, OGINJ ]
To: one guy in new jersey
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:35:15 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: one guy in new jersey
Back to the drawing board.
I worked for a major rocket manufacturer in the 1980's and early 90's and every launch is a nail-biter. So many little things can go wrong, but one little thing is all it takes to blow the whole thing to hell.
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:36:23 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversaet! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
To: fidelis
A commenter suggests that, based on the circumstances and timing of the mission failure, the cause was likely a bus failure.
To: TexasGator
To: one guy in new jersey
Does that make Astra’s success rate 2 out of 9 or 2 out of 10? Maybe they should buy their rocket engines from SpaceX.
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:38:49 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
To: one guy in new jersey
Well, back to the drawing board.
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:42:47 PM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: one guy in new jersey
A commenter suggests that, based on the circumstances and timing of the mission failure, the cause was likely a bus failure.Public transit?
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:43:22 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
To: one guy in new jersey
“[ The actual veer-off/failure occurred in space during a separation event, seen at 2:19:50 of the video in question-Best Regards, OGINJ ]”
Second stage shutdown early. Nothing to really see.
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:43:50 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: one guy in new jersey
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:45:01 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
To: TexasGator
The onboard camera tells the tale of the veeroff from the rocket’s perspective.
But yeah, nothing to see in terms of video shot from the surface of the earth or from a tailing aircraft.
To: Professional Engineer
Oh You!
Get thee to a punnery.
To: null and void
To: HighSierra5
Yep. Big oops. Unmanned space mission, thankfully.
To: fidelis
Sounds like an explosive retention bolt failure.
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:51:04 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: one guy in new jersey
“The onboard camera tells the tale of the veeroff from the rocket’s perspective.”
It didn’t veer off. The rocked propulsion shut down.
To: WMarshal
Am hearing that Astra’s record is somewhat less than perfect.
To: TexasGator
Had thought that the veeroff happened right at the time of separation of an engine stage. Not sure tho.
To: one guy in new jersey
To: WMarshal
Does that make Astra’s success rate 2 out of 9 or 2 out of 10? Maybe they should buy their rocket engines from SpaceX.
Yeah, 2/10.
I'm hoping they can pull it together- the more successful American private ventures, the better. But I gotta say, when you're batting .200, a loss of payload with failure to reach orbit being described as an "otherwise successful launch" is feeling a bit like a riot being described as a "mostly peaceful protest."
Here's hoping they end up at 3/11...
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:56:38 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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