SpaceX lost a rocket

[robkelk]

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/space ... -1.3744151]Explosion destroys SpaceX rocket during test

EDIT: CBC video analysis has been incorporated into the main article.

TL;DR: A Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the test pad, taking the AMOS-6 communications satellite with it. (The launch was scheduled for this weekend.) No reports of injuries.
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[Bob Schroeck]

Rob, the link that's supposedly to the analysis instead opens up a new post.

And man, that sucks.
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[robkelk]

Oops. The analysis is in the main CBC article now - as is a video of the "static fire anomaly".
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[hazard]

... How do you lose a rocket? I mean, those things are freaking huge.

(Also, damn, that's always bad news. At least no lives were lost.)

[Dartz]

Looks a lot like Nedelin. Someone started an upper stage engine by mistake. Top of the rocket's intact as the stack beneath incinerates, right up until its engine fails and it drops.
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[robkelk]

... How do you lose a rocket? I mean, those things are freaking huge.

In this case, it would be more accurate to say it was huge.

(Also, damn, that's always bad news. At least no lives were lost.)

(Which is the only reason I feel comfortable making the joke.)

EDIT: And note what Yuku calls this thread: "SpaceX lost a rocket in General Chatter Forum". Everybody start looking under the image threads...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[ordnance11]

robkelk wrote:

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Hazard wrote:

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... How do you lose a rocket? I mean, those things are freaking huge.

In this case, it would be more accurate to say it was huge.

Hazard wrote:

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(Also, damn, that's always bad news. At least no lives were lost.)

(Which is the only reason I feel comfortable making the joke.)

What can go wrong in a fully fueled and pressurized liquid system rocket? Too many things. Why do you think ICBM's went to solid fuel?
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[DHBirr]

ordnance11 wrote:

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What can go wrong in a fully fueled and pressurized liquid system rocket? Too many things. Why do you think ICBM's went to solid fuel?

Oh, lawsy.  I just had a flashback to a book I read in the late Sixties, sf about a rocket base.  Most of it I've forgotten, but there was a nightmarish portion about losing one of their rockets.  The narrator speculated that the fuel, which was acidic and under super-high pressure, had somehow leaked out of one or more tanks and then boiled into the control cabin.  Yeah, the rocket in the story was manned....  I had some unpleasant dreams about that for a while.
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[ordnance11]

BTW, what is the success rate for rocket launches
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