CatastrophicFailure

Is that for sure?

Woohoo good payload deployment! Welcome to space, Electron, sit & stay a while this time. Actual questions: is it just me or did that second stage engine spark a whole heckuva lot? And what was that “hot swap?” Something went ping off into suborbit...?

Woohoo it’s live! Ten minutes, and I actually get to watch this time! It’s tomorrow. Today is yesterday, launch is next Münday and I am a kumquat. This is oddly quiet....

Today... well, last night, I needed to do some surveying and measuring in my 6.4x 1.3 save, so I thought I'd continue the ridiculous theme of things made almost entirely from wings. I came up with this... thing... ...we're going to need another Gilzor! And Gregmal... and Tati... and Lusy... poor Lusy... I feel bad about that one...

. . . reasons... ಠ_ಠ

I told her to read it...

Wait, how'd you guess? Let's try @tater

@qzgy my Siri would like to have a word with you...

WDR today, no hot fire till at least Monday is what I’ve heard. Launch is still possibly this month according to SFN, tho internally I’m sure that’s skipped into Feb.

According to SpaceChick Vintage Space, it was 83, and she usually knows her stuff...

As someone who actually does take a ferry every day... yeah. Oh, well, at least I might get to watch it tonight.

...when people tell me to be patient: I’ve got the yowl down pat & everything...

Yup. So for the year so far that’s: China: 4 ULA: 2 Japan: 1 India: 1 SpaceX: ...0.5...ish, Maybe? Not a very auspicious year for NewSpace yet.

I’m hearing this in William Shatner’s voice toward the end of a certain sequel... “Bonus points.”

...aaaaaand cue the mournful sax...

Shame they can’t just mash the spacebar.

I tried to build him from memory, cuz it was late and I was too tired to go find a pic. So he came out a little... special. I call him Derpfburby.

Just imagine how he drives...

It’s a conspiracy! One big *plink* danged *plink* conspiracy! What say you, Miss fussy britches?

A... a lepton?

[hades.gif] KERM! FLARPING! DANGIT! Ok how bout a new rule, then? There will no longer be launch holds for range violations, but if a wayward boat gets hit by rocket parts, they can keep them. How boat that?

And thus be it ever, apparently.

One might also say... whither comes the delay? Weather, whither. Seriously these guys seemed to have picked a really lousy place to launch rockets from. “HEY BOB!” ”YEAH, BILL?” ”WE SHOULD LAUNCH ROCKETS FROM HERE!” ”BUT ITS SO WINDY I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU!” ”WHAT?” ”I SAID, IT’S SO WINDY I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU! LOOK AT ALL THE BLOWING PAPERS!” ”GO AHEAD AND SIGN THE PAPERS? COOL, ILL GET RIGHT ON IT!” ”NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

OK This is just funny... oh, and ULA’s taking the bait! a few hours later... And that, Kiddies, is the story of the first Atlas V launch failure ever...