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Sea Launch vehicle explodes on launch pad, Sea Launch Zenit 3SL vehicle, carrying the NSS 8 satellite
ElkGroveDan
post Jan 31 2007, 12:25 AM
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Sea Launch vehicle explodes on launch pad

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post Jan 31 2007, 12:12 PM
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You can see something of a shockwave heading out to the left ( I think ) - not a detonation, but still fairly destructive. The main structure itself would be fine I would think - but the 'superstructure' of the thing....I don't know.

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- ElkGroveDan   Sea Launch vehicle explodes on launch pad   Jan 31 2007, 12:25 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   RE: Sea Launch vehicle explodes on launch pad   Jan 31 2007, 12:27 AM
- - Pavel   I'm surprised that CNN and BBC are still silen...   Jan 31 2007, 12:34 AM
- - tasp   Thanks gazet.ru and korrespondent.net, but while ...   Jan 31 2007, 03:40 AM
- - Pavel   According to Space.com, "Korn said a helicop...   Jan 31 2007, 04:56 AM
- - nprev   Weird...even Google News isn't picking up on i...   Jan 31 2007, 05:34 AM
- - elakdawalla   This event got my husband ("space shmace...   Jan 31 2007, 05:41 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 30 2007, 07:41 P...   Feb 27 2007, 06:59 PM
- - tty   Lovely bureaucratese: "The Sea Launch Zenit ...   Jan 31 2007, 06:31 AM
- - djellison   http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m313/Sm...SSExp...   Jan 31 2007, 08:40 AM
- - Tesheiner   My impression of the lauch video is that the rocke...   Jan 31 2007, 09:13 AM
- - djellison   It looked a bit like those crazy early US launch a...   Jan 31 2007, 10:28 AM
- - tty   Perhaps we should merge with this thread? http://...   Jan 31 2007, 10:58 AM
- - edstrick   Another one for the launch bloopers reel. What we...   Jan 31 2007, 11:08 AM
|- - ugordan   The launch platform might not be totally destroyed...   Jan 31 2007, 12:00 PM
- - djellison   You can see something of a shockwave heading out t...   Jan 31 2007, 12:12 PM
|- - ugordan   Yes, there's definitely something happening to...   Jan 31 2007, 12:24 PM
- - spdf   http://www.interfax.com/3/236235/news.aspx Expert...   Jan 31 2007, 01:18 PM
- - nprev   Maritime oil platforms are pretty structurally rob...   Jan 31 2007, 02:34 PM
|- - ugordan   I hear kerosene is a bit nasty to clean, if there ...   Jan 31 2007, 02:47 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 31 2007, 09:34 AM) Mar...   Jan 31 2007, 06:05 PM
- - djellison   I would have thought there would be left-over fuel...   Jan 31 2007, 02:56 PM
- - Zvezdichko   My personal opinion about the failure is a pump va...   Jan 31 2007, 05:18 PM
|- - ugordan   But that's where the flight computer or whatev...   Jan 31 2007, 06:09 PM
- - Zvezdichko   I'm also curious how the explosion happened. K...   Jan 31 2007, 06:17 PM
|- - ugordan   I think explosion is the wrong word here. More lik...   Jan 31 2007, 06:22 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jan 31 2007, 07:22 PM) I...   Jan 31 2007, 06:47 PM
- - Zvezdichko   It's spaceflightnow.com refer to the accident:...   Jan 31 2007, 06:26 PM
- - BPCooper   I'm not sure what is being implied here, but L...   Jan 31 2007, 10:16 PM
- - tty   Indeed not and a Fuel-Air mixture will only explod...   Jan 31 2007, 10:35 PM
- - jamescanvin   Interesting information and thread over at nasaspa...   Feb 1 2007, 06:07 AM
- - nprev   The main media seems to be picking it up now...it...   Feb 1 2007, 06:28 AM
- - spdf   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070201/lath054.html?.v...   Feb 1 2007, 03:44 PM
- - stevesliva   Wow. If anything the fact that a rocket can fail ...   Feb 1 2007, 07:32 PM
- - Jim from NSF.com   It wasn't an explosion, there was no shockwave...   Feb 1 2007, 09:02 PM
- - jamescanvin   Spaceflight Now: Sea Launch vessels set sail for p...   Feb 7 2007, 12:27 AM
- - nprev   Well, Odyssey is seaworthy, then, and the article ...   Feb 7 2007, 02:08 AM
- - elakdawalla   Thanks for this update, Alex. My husband's re...   Feb 27 2007, 07:50 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 27 2007, 09:50 A...   Feb 27 2007, 07:53 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Sorry for resurrecting a dormant thread, but below...   Jun 20 2007, 11:17 PM

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