Lars,
The odds of finding out what happened are slightly better for a pad
failure, where although the metal will be melted and shredded, you might
just get more data back than when something fails out over the ocean.
~Jon
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Lars Osborne <lars.osborne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After looking at the footage I think it is unlikely liquified air is a
contributing factor. I am unsure we will ever know what happened. We may
eventually get the PR story about what happened.
Thanks,
Lars Osborne
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Doug Jones <djones@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
A downloadable copy of 1:10 to 4:10 is here. If you play it back in VLC,
you can adjust the audio track by -12.2 seconds with tools-track
synchronization to make the audio and video synch up. The explosion starts
at 00:02 in this trimmed clip.
http://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/download?id=d3d3i8j9f5f5
c2b1&ext=m4v&v=_BgJEXQkjNQ
Doug Jones, Chief Test Engineer
XCOR Aerospace
1325 Sabovich
Mojave CA 93501
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On 9/1/2016 10:24 AM, Nathan Bergey wrote:
Video of RUD posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ
Ouch.
-Nathan
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Nathan Bergey <nathan.bergey@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So far I'm running on the unproven assumption that they hadn't lit yet,
andLooks like you are correct. From Elon himself a few minutes ago:
that this happened during propellant transfer. (As always, I reserve
the
right to be completely confused.)
"Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellant fill operation.
Originated around upper stage oxygen tank. Cause still unknown. More
soon."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/771394161756942336
-Nathan
