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Close-up video of Proton rocket failure

Markbnj

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This is literally one of the most horribly impressive videos I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vqW0LEcTAYg

I have seen video of this incident from a lot further away, but this... just amazing.

Apparently sensors were installed incorrectly and the rocket had no yaw control. You can see it begin to have oscillation problems right after liftoff. These are absolutely massive machines, and the sequence of events that unfolds is very impressive.
 
It's all model rocketry if you're not sitting on the nose. Seriously. Like the difference between a firecracker and nuclear bomb. We just watch from afar.
 
Do rockets launched in Florida have self destructs of some sort built in to them? I am in to model rockets and have seen rockets go horizontal like that and end up heading towards people. Now that's dangerous enough on a very small cardboard model rocket but a friggen flying bomb like that can easily fly out of the buffer zone and then plant itself in a highly populated area.

Anyone know how far away from the pad that rocket blew up?
 
OP, AWESOME!, in hi-res it looked like it was going to come down right next to the person with the camera!. Darwin333, yes, rockets launched from the Cape have a "destruct" function that the range safety official makes the call on, if it's heading back inland or any other out of control situation he has the ability to remotely destroy the vehicle, it has been used, but not very often.
 
Yeah, when the engine controllers are receiving bad info from the accelerometers, bad things are gonna happen.

You can see those things go out of synch radically.

Pretty impressive boom, and yes NASA has remote self destruct capability.
 
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Since this is a thread about rockets I'd thought I'll toss this one in, this is a 30 second video of 16mm film shot at 500 FPS of the Apollo 11 liftoff from about 10 feet from the launch pad, this is what 7+ million pounds of thrust looks like in action, amazing machine the Saturn V was, designed by an amazing, visionary man, Werner Von Braun, enjoy..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
 
MongGrel said:
and yes NASA has remote self destruct capability.
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As well as LES systems for manned launches. I'm not sure I'd want to take an LES ride though. Seems like it would hurt a wee bit. The one time such a system has fired in practice it was 14-17Gs of acceleration. The two cosmonauts survived.
 
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

michael james III 6 days ago
This is what happens when today's generation of engineers make it to nasa. They spend all their time playing MineCraft instead of doing the work necessary to launch things. With an IQ of 216 and several PhDs in STEM majors like philosophy, linguistics, and sociology, I am qualified to say this would never happen with someone like me in charge over there.&#65279;

Max Kersten 1 day ago
But somehow you are not, so maybe you should play Minecraft and stay in your mom's basement and jackoff to My Little Pony you fat retard,and take an other sip of your diet coke!
loser&#65279;

butchtropic 1 hour ago
I guess your 216 IQ prevented you from READING THE DESCRIPTION below the video where it's CLEARLY EXPLAINED that sensors were incorrectly installed. This flight was doomed before it ever attempted liftoff dipshit, and it had ZERO to do with the engineering/design of the rocket itself.&#65279;
 
Ferzerp said:
As well as LES systems for manned launches. I'm not sure I'd want to take an LES ride though. Seems like it would hurt a wee bit. The one time such a system has fired in practice it was 14-17Gs of acceleration. The two cosmonauts survived.
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Still beats turning into a piece of bacon, I'd imagine.

That would be a rough ride.

You'd usually have redundancy built into a accelerometer so you could only install it one way to begin with, but I know nothing of Russian type of things I guess.
 
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Wonder if their ICBM's are similar, they could launch an attack and blow themselves up 😛
 
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