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(SpaceX) CRS-7 INVESTIGATION UPDATE
SpaceX ^ | 20JUL2015 | Staff Writer

Posted on 07/20/2015 8:25:34 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yes. In my boiler days, we used x-ray, magnetic flux, and ultrasound NDT. That was in the factory as well as in the field. It is incredible (more like inconceivable) that this got by their engineering and QC teams.

It kind of made my spider senses tingle reading it (patents and engineering in NDT). They are hiding something.

Tinfoil hat time. I wonder if there was any Roscosmos consultants on SpaceEx payroll.
21 posted on 07/20/2015 9:46:39 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
...including all nine Merlin 1D engines, operated nominally...

How does an engine work nominally?

22 posted on 07/20/2015 10:09:34 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
How does an engine work nominally?

Minimum wage. 9 to 5. Bagged lunch. Regular oil changes.
23 posted on 07/20/2015 10:16:16 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PA Engineer

I was thinking sabotage from the moment this happened. There are many who would like to see SpaceX fail, or at least slow it down.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 10:29:34 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

One Pilot was killed, the second one survived.
Virgin Space Vehicle designed by Dick Rattan..


25 posted on 07/20/2015 10:34:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If you can't beat them, try, try agan.)
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To: Moonman62
I was thinking sabotage from the moment this happened. There are many who would like to see SpaceX fail, or at least slow it down.

I agree. I was impressed with the business plan using standardization and assembly line production. I think they are hiding something.
26 posted on 07/20/2015 10:43:47 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Sabotage?


27 posted on 07/20/2015 11:56:37 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
In addition, the Dragon spacecraft not only survived the second stage event, but also continued to communicate until the vehicle dropped below the horizon and out of range.

Couldn't someone have sent a "Deploy Chutes" command to the Dragon?

28 posted on 07/21/2015 12:06:51 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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The dragon was not properly trained.

Somebody call Hiccup.


29 posted on 07/21/2015 12:59:15 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
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To: PA Engineer

“I think they are hiding something.”

I agree. Considering it failed right at maximum dynamic loading, supposedly 1/5 the strut’s capacity, means they may not be telling the whole story. The vehicle/payload may have had harmonic vibration issues which they did not calculate or predict. Ergo, a systemic program failure.


30 posted on 07/21/2015 3:37:07 AM PDT by Justa
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To: jonrick46

I’m wondering the same thing myself.


31 posted on 07/21/2015 5:28:03 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

It stays within a certain burn/thrust profile.


32 posted on 07/21/2015 5:28:43 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
Android spell checker again.

It was a correctly-spelled word; just the wrong correctly-spelled word :)

33 posted on 07/21/2015 8:40:31 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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Explaining the Space X CRS7 Launch Failure
21JUL2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i8hfpLNAIo


34 posted on 07/22/2015 10:16:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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SpaceX Falcon 9 failure investigation focuses on COPV struts
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/07/spacex-falcon-9-failure-investigation-focuses-update/


35 posted on 07/23/2015 5:16:50 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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