Antares Rocket Blows UP

[Locke]

and really bad presenting by them. I mean, seriously..

 

[stulid]

November 5th still 8 days away.

 

[Mynight]

Looks expensive.

How is it we can get a man on the moon so long ago but cant launch a successful rocket these days .

(well I guess you rarely hear about the successful launches).

 

[Hades]

Bit of an anteres-climax really.

 

[phill1978]

that explosion is pure Crysis 1

 

[Glaucus]

(well I guess you rarely hear about the successful launches).

Usually 1+ a week successfully launched, there's very few failures these days. Unless it's a Russian Proton, they like to fail.

A $240million unplanned rapid disassembly.
Someone forgot to add extra struts.

 

[Mynight]

Usually 1+ a week sucesguly launched, there's very few failures these days. Unless it's a Russian Proton, they like to fail.

I didn't realize it was so high. Thats an awful lot of spy sats .

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Rekt, thats a lot of money up in flames.
Will be interesting to see if it blew up because of structural problems - NASA will be in a PR ****storm if that sort of thing happens again.

 

[Glaucus]

I didn't realize it was so high. Thats an awful lot of spy sats .

List of planned launches
http://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

 

[Will Gill]

ouch, that's going to cost a fair bit!

 

[Ayahuasca]

That American presenting though.

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

"Wow...that never gets old watching that, does it..." - who are you?

 

[ikillbears]

what was it launching ?

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

what was it launching ?

A (luckily) unmanned Cygnus spacecraft.

 

[Glaucus]

what was it launching ?

Cygnus, which is an unammaned resupply craft for the International Space Station.
So no fresh fruit for the astronauts this week.

Total cargo: 2,215 kg (4,883 lb)[12]
Science investigations: 727.0 kg (1,602.8 lb) U.S. science: 569.0 kg (1,254.4 lb)
International partner science: 158.0 kg (348.3 lb)

Crew supplies: 748 kg (1,649 lb) Equipment: 124.0 kg (273.4 lb)
Food: 617.0 kg (1,360.3 lb)
Flight procedure books: 7.0 kg (15.4 lb)

Vehicle hardware: 637.0 kg (1,404.3 lb) U.S. hardware: 607.0 kg (1,338.2 lb)
JAXA hardware: 30.0 kg (66.1 lb)

Spacewalk equipment: 66.0 kg (145.5 lb)
Computer resources: 37.0 kg (81.6 lb) Command & data handling equipment: 34 kg (75 lb)
Photography/TV equipment: 3.0 kg (6.6 lb)


Total cargo with packaging: 2,294 kg (5,057 lb)

 

[ikillbears]

it's amazing how quickly people throw stuff onto wikipedia http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cygnus_CRS_Orb-3

 

[Fuzz]

and really bad presenting by them. I mean, seriously..

That American presenting though.

"Wow...that never gets old watching that, does it..." - who are you?

Err You do realise their monitor was obviously delayed or such low resolution to what we could see that they hadn't noticed it go boom at the point of those comments don't you..

 

[Orionaut]

Looks expensive.

How is it we can get a man on the moon so long ago but cant launch a successful rocket these days .

(well I guess you rarely hear about the successful launches).

There is nothing routine about space-flight!

HUGE amounts of energy are involved, typically contained within very fragile pieces of machinery. If anything goes wrong it is likely to do so catastrophically. There is almost no possibility of redundancy or fault tolerance/mitigation!

Interestingly, the Russians "Standard issue" launcher is basically the same rocket that launched the first Sputnik! as far as economy and reliability is concerned, the R7 Family is about as good as it gets!

Perhaps the lesson here is that once one has a good reliable design, one shouldn't mess with it!

(I wish Motor Manufacturers (And others!) would abide by this, but then, I digress!)

 

[ikillbears]

http://gizmodo.com/nasas-unmanned-antares-rocket-just-exploded-immediately-1651991388

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

it's amazing how quickly people throw stuff onto wikipedia http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cygnus_CRS_Orb-3

Sorry, what's wrong with normal Wikipedia?