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Wow...watching the engine bell heat up to red hot on the second stage ignition was cool!
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Love the camera on the vehicle You just know the engineers were saying , "Wouldn't it be cool if we had a camera there..." |
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You know, there are a lot of cool things I missed out on in the 20th century, but above all, I wish I could have seen an Apollo launch.
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This reminds me of the excitement of the Apollo 12 launch when I was a kid!
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I love that I can watch this stuff live. I get updates from the Mars rover on my facebook, with new pics all the time. I'm glad that even though most people don't understand or care why this stuff is important. I can still watch from the sidelines. In HD.
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I like the hippy looking dude in Launch Control with the Operator Beard and the American flag bandanna headband.
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I love that I can watch this stuff live. I get updates from the Mars rover on my facebook, with new pics all the time. I'm glad that even though most people don't understand or care why this stuff is important. I can still watch from the sidelines. In HD. My family watched the Mars Rover landing at a reception at the Museum of Flight with about 600 space junkies. It was awesome. |
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I love that I can watch this stuff live. I get updates from the Mars rover on my facebook, with new pics all the time. I'm glad that even though most people don't understand or care why this stuff is important. I can still watch from the sidelines. In HD. My family watched the Mars Rover landing at a reception at the Museum of Flight with about 600 space junkies. It was awesome. I bet! I had to watch it on my laptop, and content myself with that. I hope that wasn't open to the public, because I only live a few miles from the Museum and if I missed that, I'd be bummed. |
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SpaceX getting it done.
Like the camera shots. Had to leave the ustream page because it stopped streaming but got to watch on spacex page. |
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There must be other cameras that they're not using for the public feed. I've head the controllers referring to "camera panning left..." etc. with no footage. I understand why they might not want to put some film online, I just would like to have watched the solar array deploy.
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They will generally post more video in a few weeks, after the engineers have analyzed it.
There must be other cameras that they're not using for the public feed. I've head the controllers referring to "camera panning left..." etc. with no footage. I understand why they might not want to put some film online, I just would like to have watched the solar array deploy. |
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On the SpaceX page I was able to watch the Solar Array deploy right before they lost it over the Horizon.
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I watched it on the NASA site, but the SpaceX site has better footage from multiple angles, including some awesome footage of stage separation. Watch it again from here: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
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Changed the thread title and will post updates as the mission progresses. ISS docking is Wednesday but I don't know what time.
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What that video does not show is one of the main engines exploding. SpaceX is responding with a "Nothing to see here folks" attitude.
Long way to go before that sucker is man rated. |
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What that video does not show is one of the main engines exploding. SpaceX is responding with a "Nothing to see here folks" attitude. Long way to go before that sucker is man rated. I disagree. It still successfully put the cargo in the preplanned orbit, compensating for the #1 engine failure on the first stage. (Resulting in approximately 30 second longer burn) Pretty awesome actually to get to test that at this level, instead of when they are hurdling humans into space. MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 0245 GMT (10:45 p.m. EDT Sun.) SpaceX says Engine No. 1 on the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage experienced some sort of anomaly about 80 seconds into the launch. Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO and chief designer, said the engine was shut down by the rocket's on-board computers. "Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down," Musk wrote in an email to Spaceflight Now. "As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit, which is why the burn times were a bit longer." The first stage burned nearly 30 seconds longer than planned. Nine Merlin 1C engines power the Falcon 9's first stage, generating nearly a million pounds of thrust. The kerosene-fueled engines are built by SpaceX at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. Engine No. 1, positioned on one of the corners of the tic-tac-toe pattern of first stage engines, was shut down earlier than planned, according to Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president. Shotwell said she was not sure of the cause of the problem, but the engine was turned off. "Like the Saturn 5, which experienced engine loss on two flights, the Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine flameout and still complete its mission," Musk said. "I believe Falcon 9 is the only rocket flying today that, like a modern airliner, is capable of completing a flight successfully even after losing an engine. There was no effect on Dragon or the space station resupply mission." http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/004/status.html |
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Paging TacticalMOLONLABE to give me a brief on this over Skype.
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SpaceX is calling it an "anomaly".
The engine bell exploded. They are very lucky the whole rocket did not blow up. |
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All my friends call me a nerd because i enjoy space topics.....
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What that video does not show is one of the main engines exploding. SpaceX is responding with a "Nothing to see here folks" attitude. Long way to go before that sucker is man rated. engine exploded, the rocket compensated and kept on trucking. Has any other rocket in history completed its mission after suffering the catastrophic lose of an engine? Seems like even more of a success. |
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What that video does not show is one of the main engines exploding. SpaceX is responding with a "Nothing to see here folks" attitude. Long way to go before that sucker is man rated. engine exploded, the rocket compensated and kept on trucking. Has any other rocket in history completed its mission after suffering the catastrophic lose of an engine? Seems like even more of a success. Would you launch human cargo in that config ? 2 Apollo missions completed orbit with an engine cut-off after launch. There is a difference between an engine cut-off and an engine explosion. SpaceX got real lucky on this one. |
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SpaceX is calling it an "anomaly". The engine bell exploded. They are very lucky the whole rocket did not blow up. Where is the link to this...I haven't been able to find much on the actual "anomaly". |
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SpaceX is calling it an "anomaly". The engine bell exploded. They are very lucky the whole rocket did not blow up. Where is the link to this...I haven't been able to find much on the actual "anomaly". Here you go... |
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