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Ah, fuzzbuckets. I've seen announcement on YT, but decided to go work in the garden instead of watching "just another boring hop". Of course it turned out to be a fireball time. :/

Good thing safety system worked as it should - though I've seen comments saying retro thrusters either didn't fire at all, or fired at the last possible moment resulting in a hard touchdown.

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1 minute ago, Scotius said:

Ah, fuzzbuckets. I've seen announcement on YT, but decided to go work in the garden instead of watching "just another boring hop". Of course it turned out to be a fireball time. :/

It was the first live abort I've ever seen for me, so it was quite exciting lol. Made even better from the fact that nobody was on board in first place 

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7 minutes ago, Beccab said:

It was the first live abort I've ever seen for me, so it was quite exciting lol. Made even better from the fact that nobody was on board in first place 

I was squinting at the screen, half awake after dragging myself from bed for the day, since it just happened to be on,  and I was all like “wait, did that just happen? Am I actually awake yet?”:confused:

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6 years ago today:

 

Progress? Meh.

ITS was announced 15 days later, a day after a Raptor was first fired. As I recall, the sense at the time was that BO had been working on NG for a while, it was not something they were going to do, but something they had been working on already, and were making public. Neither huge vehicle has flown, but the difference in progress is nontrivial.

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You could really hear the strain in the voice of the woman who was narrating the video as she picked up again after the abort.

I wonder if these announcers used on these rocket launch videos are trained in advance what to say if something goes wrong. Do they practice? Do they have a pre-written script?

We know Nixon had a pre-written announcement he would have given if something had gone wrong with the Apollo 11 landing.

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5 minutes ago, mikegarrison said:

You could really hear the strain in the voice of the woman who was narrating the video as she picked up again after the abort.

I wonder if these announcers used on these rocket launch videos are trained in advance what to say if something goes wrong. Do they practice? Do they have a pre-written script?

We know Nixon had a pre-written announcement he would have given if something had gone wrong with the Apollo 11 landing.

They have a script. 

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8 hours ago, cubinator said:

The "out-of-angle" condition happened a lot after the "engine bits flying away" condition

Yes like Scott Manley named it engine rich exhaust, always bad. 
Watched the stream now and the telemetry was weird. Around 2 minutes I thought the main parachutes would not deploy but that might be the booster crashing. 
And its get an little wonky at the end of the abort burn, I guess this is because the use an steerable nozzle or control fins in the nozzle to control the abort flight and these looses control authority as the srb trust tapper off at the end. 

Landing looks normal to me, I guess reducing trust caused the engine to fail. Do they have more boosters? 

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