Author Topic: FAILURE: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-3 (CRS-3) - UPDATES (Read 509009 times)

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #160 on:** 10/28/2014 09:25 pm »

Will bring updates as they become available.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #161 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

starsilk · « **Reply #162 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

pad looks destroyed.

robertross · « **Reply #163 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

into contingency ops

robertross · « **Reply #164 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

Kaputnik · « **Reply #165 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

Looks like damage to the pad, as you would expect.
All quiet on the net after announcement of the failure.

arachnitect · « **Reply #166 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

AncientU · « **Reply #167 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

Solids still burning

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #168 on:** 10/28/2014 09:26 pm »

There's a fire to the left.

Jarnis · « **Reply #169 on:** 10/28/2014 09:27 pm »

Oh no....

Rocket Science · « **Reply #170 on:** 10/28/2014 09:27 pm »

Detonations on grounds...

Joey S-IVB · « **Reply #171 on:** 10/28/2014 09:27 pm »

This hopefully won't have Congress question commercial cargo.

NaN · « **Reply #172 on:** 10/28/2014 09:28 pm »

"Damage is limited to facility - no danger to personnel - significant property damage and significant vehicle damage.

WindnWar · « **Reply #173 on:** 10/28/2014 09:28 pm »

Launch failure at 6 seconds after liftoff. No indication of personal in danger though there is significant property and vehicle damage.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #174 on:** 10/28/2014 09:28 pm »

Vehicle exploded at T+6 seconds.

Implementing contingency plan.

Damage limited to facility. Significant property and vehicle damage.

Poole Amateur · « **Reply #175 on:** 10/28/2014 09:29 pm »

Damage limited to facility with significant property damage. Bad fire.

Kaputnik · « **Reply #176 on:** 10/28/2014 09:29 pm »

Webcast ended

simonbp · « **Reply #177 on:** 10/28/2014 09:29 pm »

Quote from: AncientU on 10/28/2014 09:26 pm

Solids still burning

That is going to keep things dangerous for quite a while.

Damn.

robertross · « **Reply #178 on:** 10/28/2014 09:29 pm »

over the loop:
A mishap has occurred on Pad 3A

Appears damage is limited to the facility

No personnel in danger

Significant property damage
Significant vehicle damage

Wishing to work with mission assurance reps to collect all data
segregate all mission notes and data

(announcer is a bit choked up, understandably)

lock down any data

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #179 on:** 10/28/2014 09:29 pm »

Securing data.