Author Topic: LIVE: Space Falcon 9 Flight 2 Static Fire - December 4, 2010 (Read 160946 times)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #361 on:** 12/04/2010 02:51 pm »

Not sure if that was a nominal abort yet.

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #362 on:** 12/04/2010 02:51 pm »

Silmfeanor · « **Reply #363 on:** 12/04/2010 02:52 pm »

looked longer than the previous firing atleast, but still a lot of abort sounds on the radiowaves...

corrodedNut · « **Reply #364 on:** 12/04/2010 02:52 pm »

SpaceXMissions: "Reviewing data. Standby."

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #365 on:** 12/04/2010 02:52 pm »

Everything looks good from here

jimvela · « **Reply #366 on:** 12/04/2010 02:53 pm »

data being reviewed

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #367 on:** 12/04/2010 02:53 pm »

Reviewing data.

ugordan · « **Reply #368 on:** 12/04/2010 02:53 pm »

"Wait for confirmation that we met all criteria for today's test"

... and there goes the webcast.

js117 · « **Reply #369 on:** 12/04/2010 02:53 pm »

This test might have been ok

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #370 on:** 12/04/2010 02:54 pm »

Big thumbs up!

And the live video is gone.

Silmfeanor · « **Reply #371 on:** 12/04/2010 02:54 pm »

now an overlay with "static test fire complete " - it worked?

e of pi · « **Reply #372 on:** 12/04/2010 02:55 pm »

Feed briefly displayed "Static Fire Complete," then went to SpaceX logo.

Robotbeat · « **Reply #373 on:** 12/04/2010 02:55 pm »

Thank you, SpaceX, for fixing the feed! Much better this time!

jabe · « **Reply #374 on:** 12/04/2010 02:56 pm »

curious
if they do have to do another static fire test..for the first stage's TEA-TEB ignitor system, how do they recharge the system..is it unlimited?
jb

Antares · « **Reply #375 on:** 12/04/2010 02:56 pm »

Orange flame means there were hydrocarbons burning as opposed to just TEA-TEB and LOX.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #376 on:** 12/04/2010 02:58 pm »

Trick is not to fall into the trap a lot of sites did yesterday by assuming no word means it was a success.

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #377 on:** 12/04/2010 03:00 pm »

Quote from: Antares on 12/04/2010 02:56 pm

Orange flame means there were hydrocarbons burning as opposed to just TEA-TEB and LOX.

Just to reinforce that point, here's two pictures to compare.
Image #1 is quite clearly green. (it's the first I managed to grab with any sort of hot hot fire-type stuff)
Image #2 is quite clearly orange-yellowy.

zaitcev · « **Reply #378 on:** 12/04/2010 03:02 pm »

Quote from: jabe on 12/04/2010 02:56 pm

if they do have to do another static fire test..for the first stage's TEA-TEB ignitor system, how do they recharge the system..is it unlimited?

As far as I know, F9 has no TEA/TEB storage on the 1st stage, the nasty is fed directly from the ground (which always sounded weird for me due to the necessary length of pipes). They may have a sizeable supply, or not. It's not known how big the ground tank is. The 2nd stage has something like 3 cartridges mounted on MVac somewhere, but that's entirely unconnected.

ugordan · « **Reply #379 on:** 12/04/2010 03:04 pm »

I don't think anyone's questioning whether they had ignition on all 3 attempts so far. The real question is if the engine parameters held up to T-0.

At least it looks like they solved the helium spin-start problem of F9-01, unless that solution contributed to engine 6's woes, that is.

BTW, the strongback is reported to have moved back to the rocket so it's probably over for today one way or another.