Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
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Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
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Are you sure it wasn't just normal rotation, Doug? TO me - it looked like it was going sideways, like the little onboard videos you see of model rockets, but after apogee. "We did lose the vehicle," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f1/status.html I just hope they find a root cause quickly and have another go - I really want this vehicle to work. Doug |
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These guys seem to have inside scoop.. crossing fingers all is well edit: they just said they lost the vehicle..bummer From Spaceflightnow.com: 2239 GMT (5:39 p.m. EST) FAILURE. The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 has ended in disaster moments after blasting off from Omelek Island in the Central Pacific today. No further details are available at this point. 2238 GMT (5:38 p.m. EST) "We did lose the vehicle," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development. 2236 GMT (5:36 p.m. EST) Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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"We did lose the vehicle," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development.
2:42 PM |
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Gwynne Shotwell seems to indicate (on spaceflightnow.com) that they got a minute or two of flight.
Not exactly to orbit, but a significant step in the right direction... |
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Gwynne Shotwell seems to indicate (on spaceflightnow.com) that they got a minute or two of flight. Not exactly to orbit, but a significant step in the right direction... I'm the same..the more time in the air the better.. Be nice to hear it got over a minute of flight in.. my fingers crossed it wasn't a engine failure but a software failure |
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Junior Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 ![]() |
Is there any chance that they can recover FalconSat-2 from the wreckage?
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I did a video... where can i post it?
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Waiting for the video of hal_9000, here is one of the last image from the onbard camera.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f1/images/onboard.jpg |
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here
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Be nice to hear it got over a minute of flight in.. my fingers crossed it wasn't a engine failure but a software failure From spaceflightnow : A further look at the imagery seen from the onboard camera mounted to the Falcon 1 shows a noticeable change in the color and shape of the flame coming from the Merlin first stage main engine as the vehicle seemed to roll. BTW, they have now a significant amount of in-flight telemetry data to work with. It could have exploded on the launch pad like many others before. -- Rakhir |
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