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Buddy of mine lives in Daytona Beach in one those high rise condos that face the space center. He has a high power scope and watches all the launches, he just texted me some pics from it. WOW, is that a mess.
A surprisingly uniform "venting" from what looked to be the upper part of the vehicle.
Would be interesting to see the footage from the second stage booster camera during this.
That is what I saw to, almost like stage separation failure, and the orbiter was firing before it staged. Anyways, they floated out their automated landing barge for nothing to today.
On my vacation I've just read Chris Hadfield's "An Astronout's Guide to Life on Earth".
It's an amazing book that details a lot about the effort going into the ISS. Must totally suck when such cargo blows up (if it includes material for scientific experiments etc. and not just clean underwear...)
It was sending up a new docking port, designed to streamline orbiter dockings. This will be a setback for sure.
They have a spare docking port that is ready to go, when they determine it's safe to launch again.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
"There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause. - 11:48 AM - 28 Jun 2015"
"Cause still unknown after several thousand engineering-hours of review. Now parsing data with a hex editor to recover final milliseconds. - 4:09 AM - 29 Jun 2015"
By the way, yesterday was Musks' birthday. A not so happy one.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
I think SpaceX employees about 3000 people. If 10% are engineers that is 300 engineers, I have no idea if that's right or not. But 300 engineers times 16 hours each working this problem is 4800 hours.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
