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.
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.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!
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.
Man-rating is not for tomorrow... :hmm:
Or perhaps it is I that needs a better sarcasm dispenser. :hmm:
It seems like everytime they wanna land, something happens. <:T
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.
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.
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