Thursday, August 14, 2008
ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION
Here's a little item about a recent public presentation by a SpaceX person about the failure of the third Falcon 1 launch. It looks like the 1st-stage residual thrust after separation is being accepted as the immediate cause of the failure. One interesting note is the mention of how telemetry contact with the second stage and payload bus was maintained after the Bad Things started happening -- a bright point in the otherwise dark picture, because it indicates that the systems involved had to have been very robust to continue functioning in the, errrh, off-nominal conditions experienced after the "rear ender."
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:18 AM
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