A SpaceX rocket exploded at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Thursday morning during a test firing, destroying the rocket and the satellite it was due to launch on Saturday.
SpaceX said there were no injuries as a result of the explosion, which it described as an "anomaly"
It happened at the Space Launch Complex 40, according to Stephanie Martin, with Kennedy Space Center Public Information.
That launchpad is used by SpaceX to launch rockets that carry supplies to the International Space Station as well as satellites. SpaceX did not have a launch scheduled for Thursday morning. It's next scheduled launch is for early Saturday morning, when it was set to carry a private satellite into Earth's obit for the Israeli company Spacecom.
Response teams at the base were working to confirm if there were any injuries, said Brian Purtell, the public information officer for the 45th Space Wings.
Launch Complex 40 is an Air Force facility which has been leased to SpaceX. The company has launched 25 rockets from the site since 2010. Its rockets have carried supplies to the International Space Station as well as satellites.
The company has yet to carry any people into space, though it has won a contract from NASA to carry American astronauts to the space station in the future.
The company had a rocket explode during a launch in June of 2015 on one of its ISS supply missions. It was later determined that a strut that held a helium tank in place had failed, causing the explosion.
It has also lost several rockets when it tried to land them upright on an ocean platform at the end of a flight.
16 comments:
Que triste papel hizo ayer Enrique Pena Nieto al invitar a la casa de todos los mexicanos a alguien (Donald Trump) que se ha cansado de ofendernos y denostarnos. Más triste aun su tibieza y resignación ante quien pude ser su siguiente patrón. La imagen de México en el mundo no para en su caída, por favor señor Peña ya deje de hacer tonterías, de decir mentiras, de solapar ineptos y corruptos y después pedir perdón. Un poco de inteligencia y dignidad para usted y su equipo no le vendrían mal, lastima que no las venden en el mercado.
Turn up the volume if you reside in SPI, Port Isabel, and surrounding areas.....this is what you may hear from an explosion at SpaceX launch.
SpaceX - Static Fire Anomaly - AMOS-6 - 09-01-2016
Video is (c) 2016 USLaunchReport.com
I believe the technical word for this is "We're Screwed"
It would be cool if when the rocket exploded candy just went everywhere!
Practicing your Spanish again huh Eduardo Paz Martinez? VATO BOFO!
Forget candy Diego! Beans, rice, and tortillas is what they'd want!!! Parachuted down on little Mexican flag parachutes.
Trial and error is the way progress is gained. Should we stop cars from going across the Queen Isabela Bridge because an accident "might" happen; or the bridge might be hit by a barge and cut the bridge.
You win the "dumb-ass comment" of the day, AGAIN! Fuck you and drop dead Diego !
Remember, sometime back I posted the reasons I believed Space X will not not happen here and stated to keep an eye on Elon Musk. If you can repost to remind your readers. Thanks
Hey grandpa we want to know what you think?? Speak up you have been quiet for a while .... Lets hear you talk out of your ass
Cool off and go home to grief your sadness
What the hell is a vato bofo??? Explain please....
¿Es bato, no?
In the barrios and, in particular Southmost, a "bofo" is a made up word by uneducated peasants from Mexico who do not possess a solid grasp of the language of the mother land in which they should be living. Mexico is definitely NOT sending their best. Trump 2016!!! Deport, deport, deport!!!
Shooting off rockets has always been a dangerous activity. It will continue to be so, unless they can come up with an alternative to fuel. So expect a rocket to blow up from time to time no matter where it is launched. If and when they start shooting off rockets at Boca Chica, one will blow up, sooner or later. That is a given.
Pat Ahumada may not be our mayor anymore, but he will always be our village idiot.
(If you can repost to remind your readers. Thanks)
Was it even cut into paragraphs? I already know the answer, though. Dumbass, do you really believe anybody else but yourself even attempted to read it?
Mayim.
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