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Explosion At Cape Canaveral


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SpaceX is saying that there were no injuries in blast; and that an 'anomaly' on the launch pad during test firing resulted in loss of a vehicle and payload.

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SpaceX always perform a hot fire test of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket to ensure that everything is okay for the launch. Clearly it wasn't. 

This is going to have some knock on effects. The Falcon 9 is due to launch astronauts to the space station in about a year from now. That must be in question after this latest set back.

This is the second Falcon 9 lost in 15 months. If the Falcon 9's reliability becomes a problem then SpaceX could begin to lose customers. Although this does not technically count as a launch failure it will still be a worry to customers. 

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Ok a little confused here: I though Facebook was American?------------------apart from the obvious jewish connection and very likely funding, can it be classed as Israeli?

This rocket was set to launch on Saturday, September 3 on a mission to deliver Facebook’s first satellite to orbit. 

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-just-exploded-at-cape-canaveral/

 

The rocket was supposed to hoist an Israeli satellite this weekend.

http://www.wesh.com/news/explosion-reported-at-cape-canaveral/41467356

 

31 minutes ago, Merc14 said:

seems all ok - so far.

SpaceX said in a statement that there were no injuries during the explosion and subsequent fire

http://www.wesh.com/news/explosion-reported-at-cape-canaveral/41467356

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I feel very reassured by NASA's statement that there is no 'danger to the public'. Fortunately, I live far enough away from the launch site not to have to lie awake at night, worrying about the veracity of anything NASA shares with we, 'the public'.

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I think Spacex is taking the wrong approach to moving cargo and later people into space. They need to stop looking at it from a 70 year old perspective and innovate. Before a  Sailfin flyinSailfin can fly into the air it needs to get really close to the surface of the water.

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1 hour ago, universal skeptic said:

I feel very reassured by NASA's statement that there is no 'danger to the public'. Fortunately, I live far enough away from the launch site not to have to lie awake at night, worrying about the veracity of anything NASA shares with we, 'the public'.

It's hardly NASA's fault if some people would rather engage in paranoia than actually learn anything from the vast amount of information it shares with the public is it?

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25 minutes ago, Nzo said:

I think Spacex is taking the wrong approach to moving cargo and later people into space. They need to stop looking at it from a 70 year old perspective and innovate.

So what you are basically saying is that a commercial company whose main aim is to make money should stop using a well understood, and reasonably reliable, technology and try making a profit by using technology which doesn't actually exist yet. I'm guessing there is a reason that it is Elon Musk that is the billionaire.

 

28 minutes ago, Nzo said:

Before a  Sailfin flyinSailfin can fly into the air it needs to get really close to the surface of the water.

Which is relevant to placing a satellite in orbit how exactly?
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3 hours ago, freetoroam said:

Ok a little confused here: I though Facebook was American?------------------apart from the obvious jewish connection and very likely funding, can it be classed as Israeli? 

And your point is? 

What's exactly a "jewish connection"? 

So now NASA is Russian because it's using Soyuz rokets to send astronauts to the international space station? 

 

3 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

This is going to have some knock on effects. The Falcon 9 is due to launch astronauts to the space station in about a year from now. That must be in question after this latest set back. 

Could this be not a coincidence? 

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27 minutes ago, Parsec said:

Could this be not a coincidence? 

You'll have to elaborate, I'm not entirely sure what it is you are asking.

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Gee, I really do miss living close enough to the spacecoast to see the rockets go up or  hear the big booms when they didn't.  It is a bummer when the fail like that.  It really sets things back while they sort it out.    

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4 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

SpaceX always perform a hot fire test of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket to ensure that everything is okay for the launch.

The explosion seemed to originate in the upper stage, which I presume wasn't fueled for the hot test of the first stage. I wonder if it was the pyros used for stage separation, or even the self-destruct pyros.

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ever think this was a sabotage since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel? since you know american wants to be the only power in the world

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35 minutes ago, geraldnewfie said:

ever think this was a sabotage since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel? since you know american wants to be the only power in the world

What a bizarre post.

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Yes I concur, curious indeed, care to elaborate jGerryNewFie? We all wish to be enlightened and as everyone knows starving inquiring minds need to know.

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41 minutes ago, geraldnewfie said:

ever think this was a sabotage since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel? since you know american wants to be the only power in the world

Oh really now?

What makes you think that?

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1 hour ago, geraldnewfie said:

ever think this was a sabotage since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel? since you know american wants to be the only power in the world

Then what about Blue Origin, Bigelow, etc...?

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Just got home from work. Glad to hear no one was injured. Didn't see any reports the few times I saw a TV.

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4 hours ago, Derek Willis said:

The explosion seemed to originate in the upper stage, which I presume wasn't fueled for the hot test of the first stage. I wonder if it was the pyros used for stage separation, or even the self-destruct pyros.

It was a full dress rehearsal, which includes fuelling  the second stage. It was still being fuelled when it exploded.

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2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said:

ever think this was a sabotage 

No, but then I've never suffered from paranoid delusions. 

 

2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said:

since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel?

It wasn't "helping out Israel". SpaceX is a commercial organisation, it sold it's services to an Israeli commercial organisation. That is the way that international capitalism works.

 

2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said:

since you know american wants to be the only power in the world

So America is sabotaging American rockets in order to make America great? Is that what you are saying l?

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2 hours ago, geraldnewfie said:

since you know spacex is american and it was helping out israel?

It is also worth pointing out that other organisations that have "helped out" Israel (or in the real world sold launches to them) include ISC Kosmotras (Russian), Arianespace (European) and ISRO (Indian).

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While I'm not into conspiracies to much. What would the probability of this explosion being caused by a rival space angency . I mean the way waspie talks alot of other space firms are jumping for joy for the fact the spacex will lose investors, which more than likely will take their  money to another agency.

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17 minutes ago, FTWind said:

While I'm not into conspiracies to much. What would the probability of this explosion being caused by a rival space angency . I mean the way waspie talks alot of other space firms are jumping for joy for the fact the spacex will lose investors, which more than likely will take their  money to another agency.

Get a grip.  The investigation into this mishap is going to be something most people can't comprehend and hiding sabotage is nearly impossible. Also, I have NEVER seen waspie talk about other "space firms jumping for joy that spacex will lose investors" so not sure where that is coming from.  

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