Beccab Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Holy excrements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 O.o There goes their perfect flight record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 The capsule looked a bit... tumbly during the abort. Is that expected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Did that abort seem not nominal to anyone else? It was rotated of 90 degrees at some point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 They of course took down the video (livestream). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Still works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Geonovast said: Still works for me I didn't leave it open in a tab, it's not showing on their channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 minute ago, tater said: I didn't leave it open in a tab, it's not showing on their channel. Just pasted the link in a private tab and shared it with someone who hadn't clicked on it before, both played fine. *shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 16 minutes ago, Geonovast said: Just pasted the link in a private tab and shared it with someone who hadn't clicked on it before, both played fine. *shrug* Cool, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Yeah, lack of the crew onboard is a huge saving grace. Considering how rough that abort looked, with capsule tumbling and hitting the ground hard, an usual crew NS carries would have a really bad time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 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?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Looks like the abort system triggered on an out-of-angle condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Obligatory Scott Manley video about the incident: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 55 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Looks like the abort system triggered on an out-of-angle condition. The "out-of-angle" condition happened a lot after the "engine bits flying away" condition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Frame by frame of the anomaly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Seems to me like something got peeled off around the engine, leading to the flame going from right to left. Some debris shoots straight out to the side, then drag gets ahold of it and it is forced down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 4 hours ago, cubinator said: The "out-of-angle" condition happened a lot after the "engine bits flying away" condition That's one of the things that jumped out to me. I would have expected the abort to trigger a second or two earlier, when the engine anomaly started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited September 12, 2022 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Well, I guess the good news is that the abort system worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 (edited) 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. Edited September 13, 2022 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 That's gonna cost ya, Mr Bezos. A shame, really. But think of all that new data.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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