Author Topic: Falcon 9-R Explosion Mid-Flight at McGregor - August 22, 2014  (Read 257121 times)

Offline Asmegin

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Looks like it's gonna be a while before the next test! She was a good rocket! (@EthansMommy17 on Twitter)

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« Last Edit: 08/22/2014 11:06 pm by Avron »

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more..  something I guess did not go to plan..  what was flying ?

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I hope they succeeded in testing most of the things they wanted to. :/

When is the next F9R in New Mexico ready to go?

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Garrett Lee Welch

 Grasshopper exploded at @SpaceX can see the smoke from here #spaceX #grasshopperdown

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Heath Huffman @huffman_heath · 18m Space X's rocket falling out of the sky in pieces!!  another image

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Mcgregor explosion at SpaceX when grasshopper flight has problem. No injuries.

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Posting this here as not everything checks out the re-usable section:

Courtesy of @EthansMommy17 on Twitter.


wow. Spaceflight is hard.

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Well, they finally got a smoking crater, but I imagine they were expecting one to be made on touchdown, not a mid air rud. Wonder how much fire time that engine had acquired?  I guess it doesn't have to be a rud, but thats where my money is at. Hope we get a good post-mortem after the internal investigation is done.

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And that is why you test.. and push the envelope .. it happends on the test range ..

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Does anyone know if F9R-Dev1 had a FTS installed? 

Offline Chris Bergin

Oh damn, that doesn't look good.
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Offline Bubbinski

It's just 4 days to Asiasat 6 launch, will they be able to clear the rocket to fly in time?   How much commonality is there between the Asiasat vehicle and the McGregor test article?
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I'll even excitedly look forward to "flags and footprints" and suborbital missions. Just fly...somewhere.

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Something doesn't look right about that. Did they re-fly the original grasshopper? Look between the explosion and the engine exhaust. It looks unusual.
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It's just 4 days to Asiasat 6 launch, will they be able to clear the rocket to fly in time?

That we will find out in a few minutes on the other coast.. I understand that static fire is a few mins away

Offline Wetmelon

Does anyone know if F9R-Dev1 had a FTS installed?

Almost positively.  They're flying around a populated area.

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It's just 4 days to Asiasat 6 launch, will they be able to clear the rocket to fly in time?

IF it was an engine RUD, it's not like this was a qualification run. This engine had WAY more than 1 standard mission of burn time. 

That said...  I can still see an abundance of caution grounding the F9 until they figure out exactly what went wrong.

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Merged threads and such to keep everything in one place.

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Hopefully no injuries ... human or bovine.
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