Updates SpaceX Falcon 9 F5 CRS SpX-2 through CRS SpX-12 Updates

[MattBaker]

Yeah because some anonymous nobody telling stories of "his friend" is in any way important or relevant, sure...

 

[kamaz]

This was posted in a reply to a top-level post (with 1340 upvotes) which reads If Kerbal Space Program has taught me anything, it's that you can't make a space program without exploding a few rockets.

The way I look at it is that our colleague HarvesteR has (1) succesfully educated the younger demographics that going into space is hard and things tend to explode and (2) probably also created the next generation of rocket engineers.

Such reception is definitely more heartening than the usual gripes about the waste of taxpayer's money you get from older folks.

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe its a good moment to not lose your humor.

 

[fsci123]

I didn't quite understand if he meant they had two before today (which they did) or two after this.

They have two docking ports that are supposed to be set up for commercial crew with the IDA and had two IDAs for that, IDA-1 is now bust, is there a spare IDA-3 or not? Didn't seem clear to me.

They had two before the explosion but having two was a luxury not a nessecity. Now they have one which is ok but they won't be able to have two crewed vessels docked simultaneously.

 

[Urwumpe]

They had two before the explosion but having two was a luxury not a nessecity. Now they have one which is ok but they won't be able to have two crewed vessels docked simultaneously.

Its usual to have two articles, not a luxury. One is a test article, the other the actual flight article. The test article is usually an early version, and the flight version heavily modified because of the test phase results. If you also modify the test article to become a second flight article, it is called flight-test article.

 

[boogabooga]

Well I was not expecting this.

But have to hand it to SpaceX- at least the fiery end never once pointed toward space.

 

[Frilock]

Hell from what I'm hearing they didn't even send the destruct command. They were going to try to fly that sucker to space leaking LOX.

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Actually I wonder if they weren't still going to try to land the first stage after all!

 

[DaveS]

Hell from what I'm hearing they didn't even send the destruct command. They were going to try to fly that sucker to space leaking LOX.

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Actually I wonder if they weren't still going to try to land the first stage after all!

Painfully wrong on all accounts. The reason for no manually activated FTS was that by the time that anyone realized that something was seriously wrong the vehicle was already in bits. No one is watching the TV, it's all eyes on the telemetry. They have the chance to review the footage later.

 

[Frilock]

I think your sarcasm detector needs a little tune up

 

[Urwumpe]

Hell from what I'm hearing they didn't even send the destruct command. They were going to try to fly that sucker to space leaking LOX.

Can't confirm this. The command was triggered late, but there was a controlled FTS.

If the rocket would be destroyed by aerodynamic forces and debris impacts alone, the destruction would have resulted in more debris before the final sequence - think of Columbia there.

 

[Frilock]

Or perhaps it is I that needs a better sarcasm dispenser. :hmm:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Can't confirm this. The command was triggered late, but there was a controlled FTS.

If the rocket would be destroyed by aerodynamic forces and debris impacts alone, the destruction would have resulted in more debris before the final sequence - think of Columbia there.

Agreed. It shows the hallmarks of a deliberate destruction: all the visible pieces were small, and once they hit the FTS, it just... dissolved.

 

[N_Molson]

Man-rating is not for tomorrow... :hmm:

 

[Urwumpe]

Man-rating is not for tomorrow... :hmm:

Man-rating is easy. Just triple the ticket prices and call it "Extreme Space Boarding".

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Or perhaps it is I that needs a better sarcasm dispenser. :hmm:

You know Poe's law?

 

[ISProgram]

It seems like everytime they wanna land, something happens. <:T

 

[Urwumpe]

It seems like everytime they wanna land, something happens. <:T

Maybe they should get mental assistance by Russian Mars probe program managers.

 

[MattBaker]

To be fair Dragon seems to have come out of this accident relatively intact (in the few frames where you can see it it at least seems to be in one peace) and that's without rocket thrusters moving it away from the explosion. At least in this accident I see no reason to assume a crew would have gotten into trouble there.

 

[N_Molson]

To be fair Dragon seems to have come out of this accident relatively intact (in the few frames where you can see it it at least seems to be in one peace) and that's without rocket thrusters moving it away from the explosion. At least in this accident I see no reason to assume a crew would have gotten into trouble there.

"Oh we can guarantee that the spacecraft will be safe anyway, so don't worry about rocket reliablity".

I don't take it. :nono:

 

[Urwumpe]

To be fair Dragon seems to have come out of this accident relatively intact (in the few frames where you can see it it at least seems to be in one peace) and that's without rocket thrusters moving it away from the explosion. At least in this accident I see no reason to assume a crew would have gotten into trouble there.

Since it was not recovered intact, its hard to tell. At least it was intact this time.

 

[dman]

The betting window is open !!

Step up gentlemen and place your bets......

1) Falcon9R misses barge

2) Falcon9R crashes into barge

3) Falcon9R sinks the barge

4) Falcon9R sucessful landing

Maybe next time will ad another category

5) Falcon9R blows up..........