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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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How do they deal with so much vibration on ISS?
----> Putin
---->Global Warming
Poorly built crap. Hell, I still can not understand the drive through person, on the once every few months nostalgia run.
Thankfully it was a ' commercial' foray and tax payers lost zilch directly. Suspicious cuntfuck that i am though i cannot help thinking we just add the losses to the public empty purse via MIC & Ass.
Remember we are fascists now. NASA lost public money on this "commercial" foray
Glad it wasn't at my center...
you KSC?
Obola must have said "relax folks, we got this" when NASA engineers expressed their misgivings about the launch.
These launches need to coincide with July 4 celebrations. In the event of an explosion the launch can double up as part of the fireworks.
Right now I'm thinking of all those nuclear-armed missiles that have been sitting dormant in US and Russian silos for years, "maintained" by high school grads with a Xeroxed manual to go by. What happens if the command to launch ever comes? I can see fiery bits raining down all over the place, many of them exquisitely radioactive. That is probably the real reason why the US and Russia have never gone to war - they both know what would happen within 30 seconds or so of launch. And in the "1400 miles downrange" zone.
I wonder if humans will be the first species to go extinct because of stupidity.
You are spot on. That is why there is why they say, "those that dig a grave for others end up falling in it themselves."
To properly dig a grave, you must get down in the hole.
It would be incredibly ironic if MAD was self-inflicted by malfunctioning weapons.
space starts from Roskosmos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DYT0GLTbc beautiful sight! Partner of "Orbital" is KB "Uzhnoe" Ukraine ;-)
Superpower for the dustbin.
Souz-2.1a rocket is ready to deliver cargo to ISS start scheduled for 10/29/2014 10:09 AM Moscow time.
$2 Billion Nautical Sex - sailboat occupants were probably going at it causing the scrubbing of the launch which today resulted in the fireworks... Did the earth move for you, honey?
Was it...the door?
No one was amused by a Russian rocket blowng up--frankly no one gave a shit--but you sure as hell are enjoying this rocket explosion that no one gives a shit about.
Obviously the American Propaganda Machine gave a shit, or else they would have played it like the missing Ukrainian Air Traffic Controller Tapes.
Which is to say 'not at all.'
There may not have been amusement, but there was a whisper of American exceptionalism (or Russian non-exceptionalism) and a suspicion of smugness about the Russian failure.
Didn't you think?
Actually, no. I see Americans focussed on Kim Kardashian's exceptional whatever, sad as it is. Even if there were some sliver of assholes showing such spiteful exception, they don't even know who Kolmogorov is, or can spell the word cat without using the letter "k". Wear it as a badge of honor and we'll send you Obama permanently as consolation.
As for the rest of the US: we pretty much just go to work and make a life for ourselves as best we can. Pretty mundane, I know. If you are down with the same, welcome and have at it.
There's something about commenting here that evokes Homer's Odyssey.
The part where Penelope delays choosing a suitor by undoing at night the work on a tapestry she does during the day. Avoiding remarriage until her husband Ulysses returns.
I comment, revise, and edit during the day and frequently change my views the next day when I discover I am wrong.
All the while thinking this will impede the fatal eventualities that threaten our planet.
The collapse of the global economy
The reappearance of peak oil in 2020 after it's failure in 2006.
The neocons pushing Russia into a smaller and smaller corner, absolutely convinced that they won't strike first with nuclear weapons.
The dollar collapsing leaving the US with only a powerful military and the neocons pushing the Washington to strike first with nuclear weapons.
The atmosphere, climate, oceans, etc. etc
Superstition, delusion and paranoia are customarily clumped together.
The dollar isn't collapsing. In fact, it's been on a tear. Gold is collapsing.
US tax receipts are up so much that it is materrially affecting treasury issuance. Russia can't een auction their debt.
Russia invaded another country and they aren't big enoubgh to do this kind of thing without reprisal. Putin has destroyed his people.
Wake up fomr the superstition, paranoia, and delusion, man!
Worry about yourself and tend your own garden.
I suppose I have this wrong, but when you and your buddies are out to destroy another nation's currency, you all sell rubles in the foreign exchange markets. If your buddies are also triple dipping at the same time,they really don't want to sell their ruble reserves for euro's and yen and pounds as that will make their exports too pricey.
So they all agreed that when they sell the ruble -- and there's no doubt the ruble has been hit very hard -- THEY WILL SELL IT FOR DOLLARS.
It avoids upward buying pressure on those other currencies and makes the dollar look strong for absolutely no reason. But let's the US foist a new paradigm. We Have Made a Silk Purse Out Of A Sow's Ear. Or ("We have always been at war with a weak dollar.")
Basically, the US's strong, export-lite dollar is just a result of punishing Russia's currency. It has nothing to do with the value of the dollar.
Isn't this something the Fed could fudge, like the first and second estimate of the GDP of a quarter? Maybe you could link me?
Until I see incontrovertible evidence that completely denies it, I'll continue to hold to the belief that China has given a blank check to Russia.
If you think Putin has destroyed his people, what has the one, two punch of Bush and Obama done to the American people? (rhetorical)
Thank you for your concern. But I really have, and have had, a wonderful life -- considering it is on the planet Earth
It is everybody else I'm worried about.
Expect more of this because the US brainpower was off-shored when the jobs were off-shored. You can't send the ability to make things off-shore without losing the smarts to create better technology as well.
That's American exceptionalism.
Clearly the minimum wage needs to be raised to prevent these kinds of accidents. /s
Has anyone ever given any thought to why it is so important to keep a group of people (both male and female) in earth orbit continually, for years?
Continuity of species?
The US space program began shortly after Hubbert developed the 'Peak Oil Theory'.
2 + 2 = 5
"don't send us any Ebola from the USA!"
"oh, OK! scrub the launch!"
It appears no one here has read my treatise, 'The Law of Tit for Tat.'
So you will stumble around in the darkness not knowing what constitutes tits or what the statute of limitations is for tats.
It's just as well as a little knowledge is still a dangerous thing. Especially at zh.
I went for the Existential, and you went overboard.
quid pro quo
The Japanese make some very nice rocket engines.
No new porn magazines for the ISS for a few weeks
This is so wacked.
Space x....sued gov/t for launch contract and won...less competition now...they make their own engines ....go elon go
could have sworn the msm said this was the SAME russian made booster that crashed recently, insinuating something evil to do with the russians
from cnnIt adds up to a big loss, and it wasn't immediately clear if a new mission will be added to compensate. Still, that doesn't mean thespace station's six-person crew will go hungry in the meantime.
They still have goods on board and will get more soon: A Soyuz resupply spacecraft stocked with cargo and crew supplies is set to launch Wednesday from Kazakhstan.
Putin to the rescue?lol-................lets hope theres no snowplows around
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Hey, that's what my highschool sweetheart used to say about me.
I think this was actually an accident or unsophisticated malice. This is the ticker for ORB $25 puts on ORB. Unlike 9/11, there was very light volume in the trading of these puts.
Only one volume, 7 open interest.
http://www.barchart.com/options/stocks/&view=stacked&sym=ORB&date=Nov-22...
The poor taxpayers. Oh wait, that's me.
The USA can't do jack nothing correctly any more.
The Russians send our astronauts into space.
Soon, the Chinsese will be sending our satellites into space.
I went out yesterday evening and this evening to try to watch it. I just wish it would have exploded at high altitude so I could have seen it blow up from New York.
The rocket would have made it if they just lowered the space station to 100 feet above Virginia
yes we can
come on kids say it backwards like that old tavistock beatles trick
thank you satan
Oh good, so the USA space sector has revertd to 1957 when rockets blew up with regularity, Russia had clear superiorty globally, and the USA could not put a payload in to LEO, let alone TLI.
Progress - that's what Obama calls losing 60 years of tech prowess.
It was taken out by a BUK missile fired from eastern Ukraine !
"Russia said" can produce usefull data if required! /sarc
What a nice metaphore for the times we are living in.
WRONG!!!!!! No one gets why this happened. It happened because liberals started running things!
This is representative of liberal minds applied to the real world. Not a single mention that the liberals' great leader, Obuma, decides to change the direction of NASA to become a taxpayer funded facility for "Muslim Self-Esteem". This is literally a metaphor for the end of Atlas Shrugged.
Saw no mention of this on this. Seems we have forgotten about this, come on ZH readers!
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-muslim-self-esteem-n...
Your raging stupidity is quite entertaining!! Please post more rediculous red vs blue gibberish.
Obviously you are correct Tegrat. Things had been going so well under that "conservative", Dubya.
Missiles tended to fly properly, it was just our Constitution and economy that crashed and burned, along with a couple of buildings here and their while our "allies" cheered their victory. Those were the good old days. I'll have to remember to vote Republican.
Note to self...don't let the main engine run at 108%.
What the hell are they doing up there anyway? 60+ years of space flight and they say they're experimenting with the effect of zero gravity on milk, agriculture, blood flow etc.? Come on! I'm so sick and tired of all this secrecy bullshit. We pay for it, but for our own safety, we're not allowed to know anything about it? Unacceptable!
What is most hilarious here is that the USA with all their advanced technology needs to rely on "refurbished" rocket engines that were built by the Soviets in the 60s (!!!).....
This was one of the most spectacular explosions I have seen! When I was watching this on the news as soon as it started droping I know once it hit the ground it would really light up, and boy it did not dissapoint. The explosion even had the little streamers whizing by on the sides.
I guess we contracted this out to North Koreans.