Someone mentioned, that the incident could impossibly be related to the
FTS. So, i got curious what it would look like if the FTS charges fired?
Or if only uper stage FTS charges fired?
Best,
Manuel
Am 01.09.2016 um 22:40 schrieb qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
I agree. the preceding 2 frames at 29.97 frames a second show it was
well advanced before the next frame catches the explosion. Zoomed in on
the second frame shows nothing visible with this footage. The center of
the explosion seems to be centered
At 01:50 PM 9/1/2016, you 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
<mailto: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=d3d3i8j9f5f5c2b1&ext=m4v&v=_BgJEXQkjNQ
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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 <mailto:nathan.bergey@xxxxxxxxx> >
wrote:
So far I'm running on the unproven assumption that they
hadn't lit yet, and
that this happened during propellant transfer. (As
always, I reserve the
right to be completely confused.)
Looks like you are correct. From Elon himself a few
minutes ago:
"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
