Updates SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 with Cassiope, POPACS (x6), CUSat 1&2, September 29, 2013

[Kyle]

The other time you're remembering it didn't really "fail". What you mean was CRS-1 during which's first stage flight an engine failed. One condition for the restart to put the secondary payload into orbit was a 99% success rate that the payload would end up above the Station. But due to the earlier engine failure the probability was 'only' 95% so the stage wasn't allowed to relight but it would have most likely worked.

As pointed out earlier by me they already did the restarting of the second stage before, at the COTS Demo Flight 1.

The Falcon 9 v1.0 maiden flight suffered a similar failure upon an attempted restart of the engine.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Hehehehe
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/spacex-knocks-down-claim-falcon-9-rocket-exploded-orbit-8C11310947

 

[MattBaker]

That's the problem. If it would have worked there would have been an explosion. A controlled explosion.

But it wouldn't surprise me, SpaceX's media policy is a bit like China. It's always perfect and everybody believes in us.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

How can one become the ultimate SpaceX fan? By taking a photo of yourself skydiving during a SpaceX launch! :rofl:

http://imgur.com/a/tRg87

 

[Quick_Nick]

How can one become the ultimate SpaceX fan? By taking a photo of yourself skydiving during a SpaceX launch! :rofl:

http://imgur.com/a/tRg87

Just watch out for VBG airspace!

 

[RGClark]

SES Awaits Answer on Falcon 9 Anomaly as Explosion Claim Denied.
Posted by Doug Messier
on October 2, 2013, at 9:41 am in News
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/10/02/ses-awaits-answer-falcon-9-anomaly-explosion-claim-denied/

Bob Clark

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

The promised mission overview video, including onboard camera views of the first stage relight!

 

[RGClark]

The promised mission overview video, including onboard camera views of the first stage relight!

Mission Overview | Next Gen Falcon 9 Demonstration Flight

I would have liked to see a longer camera view as the first stage descended back into the denser atmosphere. Was there buffeting on the structure? When did the uncontrolled roll first take place? Was the descent otherwise stable? How close to the ground did it get before the engines cut out because of the roll?


Bob Clark

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

SpaceX has updated their launch mission page with an image of the 1st stage performing the deceleration burn and another image showing the 1st stage firing straight down 3 meters above the ocean surface!

 

[Mader Levap]

the 1st stage firing straight down 3 meters above the ocean surface!

AFAIK engine was already starved at this particular moment.

 

[orb]

Space News: Frozen Igniter Marred Last Outing, SpaceX Confirms on Eve of Watershed Falcon 9 Launch:

PARIS — The Sept. 29 reignition failure of the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket was caused when the engine’s igniter fluid lines froze following exposure to supercold oxygen and prevented a full second burn, SpaceX and other industry officials said.

While the Sept. 29 flight completed part of its mission — delivering a Canadian research satellite into low Earth orbit — it did not complete a full qualification of its upper stage’s reignition capability, which will be indispensable for the rocket’s imminent entry into the commercial market for geostationary-orbiting telecommunications satellites.

Nonetheless, because the reignition anomaly appears so basic, and the fix so simple — adding thermal insulation — insurance underwriters and satellite fleet operator SES of Luxembourg have agreed to proceed with the launch of the SES-8 telecommunications satellite without seeing a flight demonstration of the reignition capability.

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Spaceflight Now: Falcon 9 engine restart glitch blamed on thermal conditions

 

[AnjaZoe]

Are there any news about the whereabouts and status of Cassiope? It remains strangely silent.....

Zoe