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Clip Of Unmanned NASA Rocket Exploding Shortly After Takes Off
Several months ago, a Russian rocket, carrying Russia's most advanced communications satellite, exploded on launch and the west was amused at Russia's seeming incompetence, while birthing extensive speculation of the NSA's involvement. Well, moments ago either Karma, or Russian hackers, intervened, and 6 seconds after launch, the NASA unmanned Antares rocket of rocket-maker Orbital Sciences, likewise ended its mission prematurely in a massive flaming fireball.
A video of the explosion:
Another angle"
Stills:
Live feed from NASA of the remains:
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
The stock of the rocket-maker ORB appears to be likewise in flames after hours, down some 8.5% at last check.
More details on the mission prior to its terminal failure:
An unmanned Antares rocket is scheduled to launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on the Eastern Shore about 6:45 p.m. today, boosting a Cygnus cargo freighter to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
The launch of the Antares — a medium-lift rocket — should be visible throughout Hampton Roads and the mid-Atlantic. It's carrying a Cygnus spacecraft packed with about 5,000 pounds of cargo — the heaviest payload to date for rocket-maker Orbital Sciences Corp.
The Cygnus is expected to remain in orbit for several days before berthing with the space station in the early hours of Nov. 2, when station crew are set to use a robotic arm to grapple the spaecraft into port. Station astronauts will unpack provisions, hardware and science experiments, then begin to reload the craft with trash — or disposable cargo — that will eventually burn up in the atmosphere upon rentry.
Cargo spacecraft typically remain at the space station for about 30 days before making their return flight.
And from the official NASA press release:
NASA Wallops Preparations on Track for Tonight’s Orbital Sciences Launch to International Space Station
Ahead of the third U.S. commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station by Orbital Sciences Corp., NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia continues to enable successful launches from the Eastern Shore. Orbital’s Antares rocket carrying 5,000 pounds of NASA cargo aboard the company’s Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT this evening from Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops.
A Monday launch attempt was scrubbed because a boat was inside the range safety zone southwest of the launch pad.
“Wallops is home to NASA’s only owned and operated launch range, providing safety, area clearance, tracking and telemetry, and logistical support to range users like Orbital Sciences,” said Bill Wrobel, Wallops director. “Public safety is our top priority for launch operations and the teams at Wallops have done a tremendous job getting ready to support these launches. But, we also need the public’s help to ensure the safe and successful beginning of these resupply missions to the International Space Station.”
On Monday evening, a sailboat about 26 feet long entered the hazard zone early in the launch count. The hazard area for the launch of Antares is about 1,400 square miles off the coast of Wallops Island along the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Radar aircraft detected the boat and hailed it several times, but there was no response. A spotter plane made multiple passes around the boat at low altitudes using commonly understood signals such as wing waving to establish contact. However, the operator did not respond.
The boat was traveling very slowly at a speed of about four knots and remained in the hazard area at the time of Orbital’s scheduled launch. The presence of the boat exceeded a mandatory safety requirement for launch, scrubbing the launch to Tuesday.
Well-ahead of launch operations, two public notifications, notices to mariners (NOTMARs) and the notification for the establishment of an Army Corps of Engineers Danger Zone, are released. Boats under way in the ocean also are requested to monitor marine band radio channel 16 for safety messages and communication with marine authorities.
Nine hours before the scheduled lift-off time, Wallops' area clearance personnel are in active communication on the marine band radio with boaters traveling in and near the established hazard area. This early in the countdown, the area clearance officer is actively working to keep the area cleared by contacting boaters about the upcoming launch operation. More complex surveillance of the area begins four hours prior to liftoff with the Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Virginia Marine Police and Contract Surveillance Boats, about seven to eight boats actively patrolling the area. Three hours prior to launch, a radar aircraft, spotting aircraft, and helicopter are used to surveil the area.
Among the science cargo Cygnus will transport to the space station are a study to enable the first space-based observations of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere, a multitude of student investigations covering topics such as the effects of microgravity on plant growth and the rates of milk spoilage in space and international research including a study to determine how blood flows from the brain to the heart in the absence of gravity. A launch attempt Tuesday evening will result in Cygnus arriving to the space station Sunday, Nov. 2.
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Is that Muslim outreach?
Parts made in China ;-)
These are our best and brightest, right? Insurance will cover the losses, right?? The payload was not important, right???
Re Russian Rockets exploding and now US Rockets:
Payback a bitch, bitchez.
-Vlad P.
Americans very good at blowing shit up.
Building stuff, not so much...anymore.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GHANA LAUNCHES A ROCKET. With due respect to Ghana.
how much silver died with that rocket?
keep stackin', bitchez ;-)
All the little ponies on Assateague Island are clapping their hooves together, cheering and yelling "Do it again! Do it again!!"
You can see them go up from MARS from O.C. Maryland, if the weather is clear. Well, NORMALLY they go up. Not this time, though.
IT WAS THE ROGUE SAILBOAT!!!!!!!!
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/orbital-sciences-corp/wayward-sailboat-scrubs-multi-million-antares-launch-iss/
Sheila Jackson-Lee, a woman who doesn’t know the moon from Mars probably thinks this mission was a success.
And while you were watching that little guy explode, how many rockets got launched without notice? How many balloons can float on up every day without notice....carrying....people....or things as heavy as people....
Did the chimp get out OK?
Yeah, he is safely on his farm in Texas.
"We got a Krugman."
"Roger that."
“They didn’t build that.”
"Parts made in China ;-)"
(A)bort! (R)etry! (F)ail!
Russia / USA / China they are all fighting and loosing against nature (entropy).
Oh noooo.... IT'S ROCKET EBOLAAAAAAA!!!
Fresh faced journalism major #1: "Whats this button do?"
Fresh faced sports medicine major #2:"Dunno, push it and lets find out!"
Ahhh yes, the bubbly curiosity and enthusiasm of yut's ;-)
Maybe they scrubbed the launch yesterday knowing the rocket would crash right where the sailboat was, and they didn't want 'collateral damage.'
Hmmmmm.
Where's George Washington; we need to confirm this conspiracy!
The Obama administration will investigate the cause of this launch failure and promptly conclude within days that this was Bush's fault. Damned Bushies.
This whole thing makes me mad..
NOW how are we suppose to learn about the "rates of milk spoilage in space"....it's very possible, this was our last opportunity!!!
This is what happens when you don't buy from Elon Musk or Richard Branson. Boom.
If we have too much Oil we also problably have too much silver. Although, I'm stacking on all pull backs too.
"and the west was amused at Russia's seeming incompetence, while birthing extensive speculation of the NSA's involvement"
I don't know what you think you're expressing here: it all reads as complete and utter quick-snark from some bored hack journalist...
1) How many people are even concerned with unmanned launches anymore?
2) I seriously doubt the west was amused... at least the bit of the west which cares ...
The Market stopped tanking, so they have to write something to keep that ad money flowing.
Although I usually find content-free crap like this is a bit annoying, you have admit it's kinda funny, a visual metaphor for the ongoing global "recovery" maybe?
Banzai should photoshop Obama wearing a flight suit in there somewhere "mission accomplished".
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alan_shepard.htmlThey solved that; now they have NO-BID contracts.
This one did not blow up!
RealTime-RUSSIA: — Russian Progress M-25M cargo rocket blasts off for ISS. –
Oct 29, 2014
“The Progress M-25M spaceship, also known as Progress 57P, a Russian cargo craft successfully blasted off for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
http://www.degaray.com/?p=4738
Ebola gay
Nah, it was named properly. Antares is a fixed star, seemingly motionless in the sky, that produces a bright red glow.
(Didn't down vote you)
Behold, the mighty Obama V thunders to life.....
Max2205 Genius comment.
I'd also like to add it always seems hinky when the go to 108% of nominal...its like turning up the volume knob to 11, it just appears less that credible.
Going to > 100% nominal thrust took down Challenger as well.
Maybe they should 'dial it back' and try going for moonshots the natural/nominal/normal way.
From what I saw of the explosion, it looks like the rocket motor nozzles lost containment (i.e., they exploded!). Somewhere, millions of pieces of paper, representing the build logs of every part of that rocket were impounded and are going to be thoroughly audited for anomolies and discrepancies, especially since there was a classified payload amongst the others.
Not China, Ukraine perhaps (stage 1 core tank etc) so definitely the evil Putin's fingers are all over it.
Orbital parts (and those of a great many other companies) were stress tested by a third party provider using a faulty algorithm which severely underestimated the effects of vibrational stress. It's a crap shoot whether the birds will fly or not. At least this payload wasn't a satellite designed to quantify the effects of carbon emissions on global warming. They're 0 for 2 on those launches. They make the ABM system used to defend us from North Korean and Chinese nukes as well. It make me feel warm and fuzzy that they're on our side.
What ? No more laughing at the "inferior" Russian rockets ? QC is a bitch everywhere...
I believe theAnteres is a Russian Rocket actually.
Yep--the Antares' engines are actually surplus Soviet NK-33 engines from the 1970s--they're imported and upgraded with modern-day components to meet US spaceflight certifications.
"Well guys, I guess we're eating freeze dried beenie weenie for another month"
Live Fail feed
http://wtkr.com/2014/10/25/second-attempt-to-launch-antares-rocket-set-f...
I watched that live online with my son. Told him it probably cost a lot of money since they had to scrub last night because of sail boat in the way.
I guess tonight cost just a tad more!!
I never laught when rockets blow up. Rockets are hard. the list of things that can go wrong is about forty pages. I worked at the Coyote Test Facility in California for awhile; we had a liquid fuel motor test facility and a solid fuel motor test facility; I was reading a top secret report on ablation cooled rocket engine nozzles and trying to figure why the physics involved didn't seem to make sense, ( it turned out it didn't make sense), inside an underground bank vault; just like a normal bank vault, same door, same, same everything, except this was our mail room. the retired army cpt. who ran the mail room would write down your name and company id and then lock you in the vault. All of a sudden the ground shook; I could tell because at that point I was part of the ground. I buzzed for the boss to open my door; and he told me that the liquid fuel test facility had blown up. no one survived at that facility. but all the units were separated widely from each other in this rolling countryside and connected with a jeep road. so just the liquid fuel people died. I think someone determined many years later that the russians already had copies of these plans and research reports before we got them; but we were sure careful with ours. I eventually invented something interesting for a major ICBM that they were happy about, and I got a little atta boy to hang on the wall. But then I decided the whole idea was insane and I didn't actually want to incinerate anybody in the first place, so I quit. I'm always amazed when one of these things actually works.
The engines in the military rockets are made in Russia right ?
Atlas V is an active expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family. Atlas V was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin, and is now operated by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen
"The engines in the military rockets are made in Russia right ?"
Yes, and the Russian Progress cargo vessel launched yesterday at Baikonur, with a Soyuz carrier rocket, took off nicely and is currently heading for the space station.
Hmm, hope you never had to worry about hypergolic fuels in your area (nasty stuff!)
Is that footage from the FOMC meeting?
No it was a drunken snow plow.
Rocket-Bola of course.
You have to admit, it makes nice fireworks.
Yellen- We were planning on ending QE but .. Nasa needs a few trillion ..... Onward!
Hampton Roads in VA? Shame it did not drift towards DC.
Krugman = broken windows and green shoots.
The center is on Wallops Island which is on the eastern shore of Virgiina and about an hour from the mainland VB/Norfolk area. It is also about an hour or so (as the bird flies) from the Pentagon whcih is in VA also.
Maybe they should have used Russian engines because those Orbital Sciences engines were weak and piss poor. NASA has been a joke since all those old Germans died who ran it.
Looks just like the Vanguard that blew up on the pad before Von Braun took over NASA. I can piss more thrust then that Orbital Sciences POS engine.
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She has been laid for 7 months but last month her paycheck was $13987.
There, fixed it for you.
Now THATS a business plan that you can make everyone happy.
I personally think Dr. No had something to do with it.
SPECTRE hijinks DRAX gonna need a new JAWS
Is Kerry too busy? He has that non-athletic strongman look of the original jaws down pat.
Russian hackers Wallop the Antares!
The gumint-cuntrolled MSM will be blaming Putin any moment now...
Operation snowplow.
Perfect
NK Crackers! Its gonna be like Pearl Harbor x a thousand.
Never forget®
Forget what?
Oh, shit.
Huh?
Sadly NASA has become the post office with rockets
Exceptional fireball.
All that Tang and toothpaste food... gone.
Well thankfully the porn can now be beamed up Scotty. Got poontang it's all good
Uh, does this correlate with dropping IQs and test results in the U.S.? I mean, do we still have anyone who understands this stuff -- or are we all faking it? We don't have anyone up there still, someone who might have been counting on us, do we?
Somewhere in Houston the last 2 buzz cuts with slipsticks are being hunted down by the NASA Muslim Outreach team.
I think that's an excellent analogy, actually.
Yep, you are correct.
Yes we can't!
Must be of the minutemen variety...
Eboma XIII ;-)
Obama : 'It's Putin fault!!'
He added : ' We should bomb Russia'
I feel bad for the students and their science projects. They may not get another chance.
Don't worry, there's nothing between Arne Duncans ears either. Its a complete vacuum, they can experiment in there.
Their jobs would've gone to India and China anyway.
The real tragedy here is that there was a take out order for Adam's Ribs , from Dearborn Station in Chicago, aboard that Rocket. Tragically, 1.5 gallons of the barbecue sauce was also lost in the explosion....
There's always QE6.
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this is putin lies you cannot believe russia today.
the launch was A ok all systems go go go the eagle made it into the van allen belts and is being bombarded by metal vapourising amounts of gamma radiation as i sprach.
yippe ki A motherfuckers bush was right we are going to mars suckers as buzz aldrin once said to infinitry and beyonce
And the eagle was landed with a joystick.
Nobody takes you seriously in the space business unless you blow up a few.
communist technology
This is your Govenment. This is your government on drugs.
Hey get a load of those aliens. Don't recognize any of em.
"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the collapse." –Larry Silverstein
OK ~ so Silverstein pocketed a few billion on the job...
The question is ~ are you gonna do anything about it?
lol...the rocket "collapsed into its own footprint".
Fore!
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I've come to the conclusion truthers have zero sense of humor.
How exactly do you "pull it" without having in place the necessary explosives to do so?
You can't. It's impossible. Silverstein may be the world's biggest crook.
"bring on the asteroid"?? LOL. you're really an optimist, aren't you ?
Is there undeniable video/audio recording of "The chosen"stein stating the words "PULL IT". If there is then it's a shocking indictment on the statis of our collective activism. If he said "PULL IT" this is incontravertible proof that WTC7 was wired for demolition. "PULL IT" infers a conscious decision to bring the building down with known timeframe and outcome. This is not possible under normal circumstances even if the entire building was ablaze.
Any links appreciated.
Here ya go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq-0JIR38V0 Larry Silverstein - Pull It (No fireman recalls the call or that being said to them, btw)
10 min of Senator Dayton's silenced with death threats, 911
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U368DWXmb8
I like the truth, I like it a lot. They call me a truther.
Reparations from the trial and conviction of the 911 perps could save our countries. 1 billion dollars per citizen and soldier lost to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey1Z0VhAQdA
There will be a point of no return when the currency is null and void.
Read it and weep Astroid.I think the Stien made a collosal boo-boo.
'Karma' ? What was Shazza Stoned's quip when half a dozen small chinese villages collapsed in mudslides.
Mind you she was probably Big in Japan after being discarded from chinese billboards.
Bet they're pissed off at that sailboat's captain.
Is there a link to a HD video of the actual boom-boom? I dont wanna watch the aftermath, I want to see it explode.
Drudge/Mediate.
Thanks! After watching it, it seems as though the poor thing had a hard time getting off the launch pad. I think thats where the real trouble began.
Love how the one guy states, "We're losing a little power." As it is already falling to Earth and clearly about to explode. Normalicy Bias until the bitter end. Funny shit. Glad only robots died in the filming of that space launch.
Just how the financial markets will go down. And there will be that group of sellers that hangs on anyway, as the market plummets to 8,900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWunnJXdm0
Thanks. Man, are there people in those buildings?
Pretty sure the people go to a rocket-safe bunker/control center, so no. Safe to say that's the biggest mess NASA has had to clean up in a while, though.
Yet you spill three ounces of petrol on the ground and the EPA will make you spend 3 million on fines and digging it up.
INCOMPETENCE ROOLES!
We can't even give people on Earth a fair shake or keep from polluting it but we're going to live among the stars?
*cough*...pipe dream...*cough*
It's all about the next battlefield - orbital space. Once it was the high ground, then it was moats and parapets, then it was the machine gun and tanks, then navies and airplanes. Now the high ground is space. "Rods of God" and EMP's.
Billions spent on looking for invisible people.
Shouts of "Allah Barak-Bar" were heard from the whitehouse.
"Thats one small step backward for the DHS. One giant leap for mankind."
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Cool, we got a DHS lurker here too, this gets better & better ;-)
Has Russia perfected the unmanned "aurora"?...
Or did NASA do the expected and just fuck up because they are out of money and sloppy like with the Challenger?!!!
Think NASA needs help from both Bollywood and their aerospace corporations to get "the next one up" given our track record!!!
The Germans got us to the moon (sic) the first time and here they are again helping Amerika get there again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYrAQVQZKs
Coca Cola, wunderbar
Coca Cola, wonderbra
Maybe Rammstein should run NASA. Anyone could do a better job.
Space(d OUT) the Final Frontier. Beam me down. Ah canny hold her. Illogical.
I guess it was too cold for those ~O~ rings. That must have been the Al Gore especial'.
Wow Tyler, a Russian Rocket explodes and thats incompetance, a US rocket explodes and its the Russians fault, somethings a bit twisted here. And the NSA was doing what? knitting maybe.
As it is, was, a US/Ukrainian rocket then its definitely the Russian's fault again.
Yes, I think knitting.
They were reaching out to ISIS and the Taliban.
"Shall. We. Play. A. Game?" --WOPR
YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!!!!
Houston, we have a problem.
Part of obolas NASA muslim outreach program?
First stage Yuzhnoye and Aerojet
50+ years and .gov still hasn't developed a reliable rocket.
I'm really glad we have those guys hard at work protecting us against Ebola.
Just a couple Trillion more will fix it, trust us.
Enough to buy moar rockets from the Russians.
NASA is a fraud that has been using the People's tax money to do the R&D for corporate shareholders. It's a form of socialism for the rich at expenses of the needy and the hungry as Ike puts it.
This isn't all that unusual. Lockheed launched a Titan IV with a one billion dollar spy satellite and it blew up back in the late 90s. I worked on a project for Vandenberg and Cape Canveral that was called the Range Safety Application. It's job was to track the rocket when it took off and if something went wrong and the red button had to be hit (destruct button), there would be telemetry data stored around the event but more important, the debris footprint could be calculated and the rocket destroyed over an area where the least damage would occur. The percentage of launches aborted is 1-2% or it was back in the late 90s when I worked on RSA.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1998-08-28/news/9808280702_1_boeing-...
Yeah; exactly; you have to be mental to think that 99,8% of these things are going to work. They are verrry complicated and verrry highly stressed. not a good combination.
Great comment and your and SAT 800 were the only relevant ones in this thread. Makes me utterly sad we waste so much in global defense spending when we could be pushing the boundaries both in space and in deep ocean environment.
"we could be pushing the boundaries both in space and in deep ocean environment"...Hey isn't it past your bedtime?
Well, at least there weren't people onboard.
Break a window!
It was the Krugman Express.
So much for the "Right Stuff".
That river doesn't run by here anymore.
Yellen, we have a problem
Just to be clear the first stage of the rocket is built by Ukrainian Yuzhnoye SDO,including propellant tanks, pressurization tanks, valves, sensors, feed lines, tubing, wiring and other associated hardware. This might of might not be relevant but whatever exploded here was an Ukrainian rocket.
It's a good thing the U.S. has to rely on Russia to deploy it's spy satelites.
U.S. military dependence on Russian rocket engines raises security concerns - Washington Times
Thats what happens when USA doesnt wanna pay the Russians to get that equipment to ISS.
Whad that little fucker Charlie do now???
Another failure on Obomger's watch
sarc/
My Dad was a rocket scientist. He and others got the Apollo missions to the Moon using sliderules.
Hahahaha fucking awesome, not sure why this shit makes me laugh, but glad it does, so funny.
Negative cha-ching
Antares rocket engines
Made in Russia
http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/130416aj26/#.VFAhNhZ9jog
Like twenty years old to boot.
You are correct, as your link confirms, what my nephew, who works at Orbital Sciences Corp., as some kind of rocket engineer, told me, a couple of years ago.…..that the USSA doesn’t make the rocket engines for these semi-commercial flights. Some smart Amerikan at Orbital Sciences Corp. decided it was cheaper to buy the rocket engines from our fellow comrades in Russia. Looks like our sanctions against Russia are really starting to make an impact.
The US will be in serious trouble if it ever enters into a global conflict that is pronounced and last beyond a few months. Even things that were verboten on the Cold War in terms of acquring from foreign builders have been shifted and we source more and more from dubious suppliers including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.
Well there went this months hustler for the ISS crew.