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unmanned NASA rocket explodes on launch

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Red Squirrel said:
Wow that sucks, but good thing it was unmanned!

It can't be worse than a Russian rocket explosion years back. They rocket did a U turn and slammed into the ground. Turns out the sensor to ensure it's upright was installed backwards.
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I don't even know how many times I've done that in KSP.
 
As folks have said this was orbital sciences rocket not actually NASAs. Although the cargo was NASAs the rocket wasn't. So the OP may want to fix his post.

Launching rockets is hard. A mistake by a commercial cargo vendor was bound to happen.
 
NikolaeVarius said:
I assume you're not an engineer.

Catastrophic anomaly has a clear meaning versus "it blew up"
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Paratus said:
As folks have said this was orbital sciences rocket not actually NASAs. Although the cargo was NASAs the rocket wasn't. So the OP may want to fix his post.

Launching rockets is hard. A mistake by a commercial cargo vendor was bound to happen.
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I like this way of putting it.
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"We've got main engines at 108%....
It blew up.
Launching rockets is hard."




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everyone's busy giving credit to NASA
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uhohs said:
everyone's busy giving credit to NASA
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Gotta love that.

Private company designs the rocket using Ukrainian and refurbished Russian stages. But it's totally a NASA rocket blowing up, just because NASA paid them to carry cargo.

<s>In related news a US military plane crashed. The Airbus plane operated by UPS was carrying Christmas packages to Marines. </s>
 
As one looks back it's still an amazing feat that the Saturn 5 never had a failure despite it's enormous size and complexity, the first stage alone produced 7,600,000 lb of thrust using 5 F1 engines, the loss of any one's thrust would have left the vehicle barely able to move as the fully fueled rocket came in at a whopping 5,000,000 lbs.
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There were only a dozen Saturn 5 launches, so there isn't very many data points to work off of.

Also, technically one of the test Launches did have a engine failure. I don't remember which.
 
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NikolaeVarius said:
There were only a dozen Saturn 5 launches, so there isn't very many data points to work off of.

Also, technically one of the test Launches did have a engine failure. I don't remember which.
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there were only a dozen antares rocket launches and they have a 50% failure rate. No matter how you look at it their track record is abysmal.
 
Paratus said:
As folks have said this was orbital sciences rocket not actually NASAs. Although the cargo was NASAs the rocket wasn't. So the OP may want to fix his post.

Launching rockets is hard. A mistake by a commercial cargo vendor was bound to happen.
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This bears repeating. :thumbsup:
 
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