SpaceX Rocket Explosion - "Static Fire Anomaly" - Destroys Facebook's AMOS-6 Satellites - 09-01-2016

[bananas]

SpaceX - Static Fire Anomaly - AMOS-6 - 09-01-2016
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Published on Sep 1, 2016

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The explosion is at 1 minute 10 seconds in,
several secondary explosions can be heard.

[bananas]

1. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was "deeply disappointed"

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12754614/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-explosion-video-watch

Video shows SpaceX's Falcon 9 exploding on the launch pad
By Sean O'Kane @sokane1 Sep 1, 2016, 1:31p

Video has surfaced of the Falcon 9 rocket explosion that happened this morning at SpaceX's launch facility in Cape Canaveral. US Launch Report, a nonprofit video production company that brings military veterans to see space launches, published the video to its YouTube channel this afternoon.

Not long before the video was published, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the explosion originated around the oxygen tank of the rocket's upper stage. The cause is still unknown.

SpaceX was fueling up the Falcon 9 rocket for a test before this weekend's scheduled launch of the Amos-6 satellite. Amos-6 was lost in the accident — you can see the fairing, or the top of the rocket where the satellite was being housed, fall to the ground shortly after the initial explosion. Facebook had planned to use Amos-6 to deliver wireless connectivity to sub-Saharan Africa as part of its Internet.org program. In a statement released shortly after the explosion, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was "deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's launch failure destroyed our satellite."

[bananas]

2. ABC News describes the video

For those who can't watch because they're at work etc,
ABC News gives a blow-by-blow text description:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video-captures-spacex-rocket-explosion-launch-site/story?id=41803090

Dramatic Video Captures SpaceX Rocket Explosion at Launch Site
By PAUL BLAKE Sep 1, 2016, 2:22 PM ET

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[shadowwinds]

3. Well, darn, there goes our tax money up in smoke again. Oh, well, at least

SpaceX isn't in financial trouble because they can dip right back into the that Tax Payers' Bottomless Money PIT for more $$$$$ to keep things going.

Read:

Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by billions in government subsidies.

An Excerpt:

Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups.


http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83663044/

For more current info Google: How much tax money paid to SpaceX?

You'll get LOTS of articles.

They get the money and we get the bill!!!!!

[bananas]

4. It's money well spent. The government always subsidizes new industries. nt

[OxQQme]

6. Notice the tower

It didn't melt and collapse from the heat.

shadowinds, I agree with bananas about the government spending.
One non-combat ready F-35 costs how much?

Musk's other public/private ventures are aiming to make the world a better place.
I say, money well spent.

[Warpy]

7. I'm with you, money well spent

The article at the BBC said it was during refueling, which makes some sense. It looks like it started right under the payload and progressed downward.

Rocket towers have always been designed to withstand the heat of takeoff. If the pressure wave from the explosion didn't blow it over, the heat wouldn't have damaged it.

[Wednesdays]

8. Gotta cut spending! Gotta cut spending!

Gotta make gummint so small, we can drown it in a bathtub!

[hunter]

5. The birds keep on singing...

... as pockets of rocket fuel explode in the distance.

Perhaps there's some lesson in that about the meaning of life.

[cpwm17]

9. I noticed that.

A White-eyed Vireo was singing through the worst of it and a Northern Cardinal called a lot also.

[miyazaki]

10. Ya, Earth Abides. Great book by the way. n/t

[martin mike]

11. awww

private enterprise isn't infallible!