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Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com)
On September 1, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and destroyed the AMOS-6 satellite that belonged to Facebook, which was going to be used to beam internet to developing parts of the world. Since the cause for the explosion has yet to be solved, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is asking for help via Twitter. Slashdot reader Thelasko writes: Elon Musk stated on Twitter last night, "Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation. Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years." He went on to say, "Important to note that this happened during a routine filling operation. Engines were not on and there was no apparent heat source." Other Tweets mention a "bang" sound before the fire, and that SpaceX "have not ruled out" the possibility that something struck the rocket.
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Again, AMOS-6 was not in any way owned by Facebook. They had simply signed a contract to lease a significant portion of the Ka-Band payload pointed at sub-saharan Africa. But don't let facts get in the way of your hate.
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...
And the explanation was that Elon Musk is a show off and "these problems" had been solved long before he was born? What the hell...
Thunderf00t is just another Musk hater with no real explanation as to why the explosion happened. Even a dumb moron can easily say that "hey, something went wrong with the fuel pumping" that is OBVIOUS. Musk is really pissing a lot of people of by just taking part in space exploration through his own company. Clearly that is something that hurts the feelings of a lot people. I guess it was their dream also. So they handle him just like they handled Gates, Zuckerberg and all the rest who got somewhere and did something.
Someone misread it as a ka-bang payload.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It would have been nice if the summary had mentioned what specifically he asked for, rather than including everything but what he asked for. They make it sound like he asked Twitter to solve the problem. What he actually asked twitter for was any photos or videos of the event that anyone may have:
The connection with the "bang" is precisely what he wrote immediately after the first tweet:
If they have more videos, they can triangulate the location of the sound and determine whether it came from the rocket or elsewhere.
Musk did Not just go on Twitter and say "Well, we're baffled - go on, Twitter, figure out why it exploded for us!" like the summary makes it sound.
"I need swat, tactical, the guys with the flashlights on their guns, those guys with the big shield thingies"
It's trickier than that. They were loading LOX. There was no RP1 in the upper stage yet. So why did the LOX explode?
Do you have a source for that? Typically the RP-1 is loaded first as even though it's chilled, it's far more thermally stable than the super-chilled LOX. The LOX is loaded into the tanks just before launch so that it doesn't have time to warm up before the rocket is ignited.
From the US Launch Report video, it's also pretty clear that the RP-1 was already in both stages when the anomaly occurred. In a deflagration like that, it burns with big movie-style orange flames, and that's exactly what we saw from both the upper stage, and the lower stage as the rocket came apart.
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...