/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6841159
I'm gonna head outside and see if I can get a video of it

>>6841159
The hype is real Hampton Roads bros ww@?

>>6841186
virginia beach reportan, heading outside now.

readiness poll complete, T-10 m

should be able to see the second stage solid burn very clearly from the entire eastern seaboard

Here we go!

oh shit

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

REKT

>>6841159
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IT CRASHED

fuuuuuuuuck

holy shit dat nigga ded

Fucking fireball at T+5s

This is a bad day for US cargo...

I can't believe I just saw that live.

were there people on it?

did that really just happen? i'm seeing this correctly?

anyone got a live text feed that is explaining what the fuck is going on?

HOLY FUCK

Just tell me, if there was anyone inside? Or was this automated?

I fucking walk away for 5 minutes and this is what happens

My local news people did not know how to handle that

>neighbor tells me to go outside because we can see it from our house
>waiting 5 minutes
>"Wait, it just blew up"
Thanks for the fresh air

it was unmanned >>6841227

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!
Was not expecting that...

>mfw dat mushroom cloud

ah thank god

Everyone lived. Nothing to see here.

>>6841234
Thank you.

Guys
http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/2014/10/28/nasa-rocket-launch-visible-in-nc-tuesday-evening/18067783/
Look at the writer of this article
Holy shit
He does it again!

Even worse, it basically landed back on the pad, which is almost utterly destroyed, everything is burning!

>>6841240
is he jewish

Someone link me to some video. I missed it.

Captcha: 404

that flight director spilling spaghetti

US integrator, Italian cargo module, Ukranian tanks, and Soviet moon rocket engines. What could possibly go wrong?

Thankfully, we still have the entirely American SpaceX Falcon as a backup.

rip rocket
rip everyone on the ISS

>>6841245
loss

so were there any pilots?

>>6841240
Are you Hank?

I went to go out and film the launch, didn't see shit, came back and my feed was at pic related

WTF HAPPENED?

>>6841267
It exploded after 6 seconds.

>>6841248
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE1m3uui-A

>>6841267
Shit blew up. It looked, as if it failed at lifting, and suddenly, after reaching the height of the crane, it started falling back and exploded right away after leaning left-screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE1m3uui-A

>>6841267

it dead

they opened the nightly news with it being blown the fuck out

>>6841267
that beach looks like a scene out of hell

no official report, but it looked like an engine explosion to me

lol what's going to happen to the people on the ISS?

they going to starve?

emergency mission back to earth for dinnertime?

>>6841269

thanks bro

>>6841275

Pretty sure they always have enough supplies to make it for at least another few supply flights.

>>6841269
>>6841271
>>6841271
better quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL5eddt-iAo

is space kill

>>6841275
better yet, they have a tried and true Soyuz Progress resupply launch later this evening!

Total Cargo: 4,883 pounds

Science investigations: 1,602.8 pounds
Crew supplies: 1,649 pounds

Flight crew equipment: 273.4 pounds
Food: 1,360.3 pounds
Flight procedures books: 15.4 pounds

Vehicle hardware: 1,404.3 pounds
Spacewalk equipment: 145.5 pounds
Computer resources: 81.6 pounds

>>6841282
no. but Orbital Sciences is now in a world of hurt. This is their second lemon launcher, after Taurus had two fairing failures in a row. (Ironically, Antares was originally named Taurus-II.)

>>6841282
http://archive.moe/tv/thread/40689971

My brother fucking jinxed it. He was trying to get me to watch it but I was doing something else. I hear him in his room going, "C'moooon elxplosion, come oooon explosion."

Then after a few minutes, "Holy shit! Holy shit I ruined it!"

>Didn't beleive him
>come on here and see this

>>6841288
rip space

>>6841287
Source (with more cargo data): https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2014/10/28/crs-3s-cargo/

>>6841281
That saddens me, that the backup plan is always connected to russians. Sure, I love the Soyuz, sure I love the joint space program. But after what russia had been doing lately, I really root for US space program (being an Eurofag) and this is what I get.

It's painfull to watch. Fuck.

good job fat fucks

>>6841274
thats what i thought when watching it live...like a fuel pump broke and dumped all the RP1 into the line

>mfw

$472 million burned in 10 seconds

Somebody webm that shit.

Time for space technology to get delayed another 50 years!

>>6841159
lol

Maybe if you stopped spending money on sending shit to space and feeding the poor idiot scientists wouldn't be getting BTFO

Shit I missed this, what happened pls give cliffs. Was it unmanned?

>Classified crypto equipment on board

TOP KEK

What kind of classified crypto devices would be on that device?

Wait classified Crypto Equipment? What's that all about?

Did it blow up on the pad or did it actually fly?

So, of course, there was secret military shit going on.

>>6841159
anyone else think that the failure could be connected to the guy saying "main engines at 108%"?

>>6841303

>>6841317
quantum encrypt/decrypt testing equipment to test range communication using quantum spins

>>6841319
It "flew"
It got a few hundred feet max, caught fire, then hit the launch pad and blew up

When was the last time something got btfo? Disregarding test flights by private actors

>>6841322
YES

>a south african builds better rockets than NASA

>>6841320
I have a feeling that shit was why it blew up

Lol, North Korea's rockets had better flight time.

>>6841330
And again, not NASA, Orbital Sciences Limited

http://youtu.be/U92w8bbLhQU

1080p

NASA is fucking done. Bring on Space-X and get these government funded amateurs the fuck out

>>6841334
Good time to start shortselling that company, lel.

>>6841334
I still stand correct

>>6841326
I believe India got a few spinning rockets crash into the ground. Or maybe it was China.

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/orb

oy vey

my sides

>>6841337
>>6841340
Orbital Science is a private company, you're just being stupid saying let them do it instead of NASA, because then this shit happens.

Man, this is exactly what I didn't need to end my day. Don't know why this made me so sad.

Good bye Orbital Sciences, you at least tried.

>>6841322
it's so pretty

NASA LITERALLY BTFO

TOP FUCKING KEK

Does anyone know if NASA or ORBCOMM have any insurance for this kind of situation? I wonder how much it will cost to repair the launch pad, for all the equipment/science that has been lost... I hope there wont be any budget cut in other project.

>>6841322
>no 'outsourcing be like'
C'mon anon

how many millions of dollars were wasted on this?

You will not go to space today.

>>6841352
Not NASA you pleb

>>6841359
340 trillion dollars

>>6841359
About half a billion
I mean $3.50

>>6841363
Oh you, that's the U.S. Military in one day, not NASA in one year

>>6841337
Who do you think is founding SpaceX genius. Without NASA budget there is no SpaceX or any commercial spaceflight (in the US).

>>6841354
Of course, all commercial launches include insurance as part of the cost of the launch. It runs about $10 million for every $100 million of launch cost

>Reentry Breakup Recorder-W (REBR)
>REBR uses the flight-verified REBR data collection and transmission system to record data during the reentry and breakup of a vehicle from wireless sensors placed throughout the host vehicle, and return the data for analysis to validate reentry hazard prediction models.

kek

>2014
>still using fossil fuels to propel your spacecraft

>>6841369
The classified crypto equipment will be blamed for the fail by the insurance company and they won't pay a single penny

>>6841321
No. The shuttle used to go over 100%. That has to do with exceeding original design specs through progressive upgrades.

>>6841325
Was that an abort or a crash? They have auto-destruct so you don't get an uncontrolled explosion downrange.

>>6841367
That's not true.
I'd agree that without NASA infrastructure (which was developed over decades) it would be harder, but NASA isn't funding SpaceX or any commercial flight

>>6841326
That spectacular Proton failure back in April.

I think the last US failure was a Taurus (also Orbital Sciences) fairing failing to separate.

i think what we need is a space elevator

>>6841376
No one knows yet, all I can say is that it flew for 5 seconds, then a huge fireball came out from the engine, and a few pieces blew off. Then the Cygnus went up for another second before it fell straight down.

>>6841374
Yeah. Hydrogen and oxygen are fossil fuels.
>>6841376
I thought it was a crash... but I guess I could be wrong

>>6841376
It did not look like they managed to trigger the auto destruct before the rocket impacted the ground again

>>6841344
are you laughing at the smoke plume? or Onancock?

>>6841385
Cygnus used RP1 Kerosene

Shame, but to be expected.

>>6841385

Deuterium is not a fossil fuel you fucking autist

>>6841389
Not the Anon who posted that, but Onancock kind of made my day.

They might call themselves Orbital Sciences, but that sure as hell wasn't no orbit

For some reason this just reminded me of The Martian. Anyone else read it?

>>6841376
An explosion downrange wouldn't be their main problem here since the rocket turns over the sea

>>6841392
Oh...
>>6841395
I know. I was being sarcastic because they other guy said they used fossil fuels and I was ironically agreeing.

>>6841159
Has /pol/ started blaming Obama/ the government or Jews yet?

>>6841395
Obvious sarcasm is obvious
Although they did use Kerosene

what's this crypto equipment they have? hidden stuff?

>>6841403
Yes

>>6841395
Also they don't use deuterium specifically, do they? I just don't see why they would. It's heavier and there aren't any energy gains
>>6841404
I'm an ass... oops

>>6841403
It's a russian virus. They want their Soyuz / Angara to shine through and get those milions of sheckels for each outsourced launch.

>>6841403
6 threads about it lol

apology for poor english

when were you when antares dies?
I was sat at home pus cheese when Zain ring

'Antares is kill'
'no'

>>6841399

>>6841409
>Putin's new USSR
> Schekels
Seems legit

>>6841386
They wouldn't have it set to do so this early in the trajectory (no need, as it's out of range of anything, also reduces explosion risk in pad aborts).

Not sure why the RSO didn't press the button, though.

>>6841405
I can't say much but it's not as exciting as you think it is. If you really wanna know, go to the National Cryptologic Museum, they have an exhibit about this kind of stuff there.

>>6841326
Though it isn't a test flight, this is by a "private actor".

Orbital's as private as SpaceX is. This Antares/Cygnus launch was the same type of commercial resupply mission for NASA as SpaceX does with the Falcon/Dragon. (only more, you know... explodey) Cygnus has about twice as much pressurized volume as Dragon, so this is a big loss of supplies for the ISS.

Bit of trivia: the Pressurized Cargo Module of each Cygnus is named after a dead astronaut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_Slayton
We dedicate this massive fuckup to his memory.

>>6841400
yup, just read it about a week ago

>>6841413

apology for poor english

where were u when antares was kill?

i was at mcdonalds eating a triple cheeseburger when tyrone yelled over the counter

'ay yo, sum space shit blowin up on television'
'more mayonnaise'

>>6841408
No, they use normal liquid hydrogen for fuel and liquid oxygen as oxidizer, at least in the space shuttles

>>6841322
>rustling intensifies

>>6841425
That's what I thought. Idk why the other guy was talking about deuterium

>>6841398
Not quite the right image, since it was a Soviet engine that probably failed today.

>>6841424
I actually laughed

>>6841419
Call it superstition or whatever, but that's a pretty bad idea, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to be on Deck Titanic on a cruise ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHtiCVA5d8

So how much did that explosion just cost?

>>6841426
Posting a dick on /sci/

>>6841159
>yfw

Tip toppest kek

>>6841435
For anatomical purposes.

>>6841436
Less than 1 day of running the U.S. military, that's for sure

>>6841437
That's just fucking sad. It's almost like beating a dying horse.

>>6841378
The thing is without the resupply contract from NASA I don't thing SpaceX could have been successful.
Just recently, SpaceX and Boeing got funding from NASA to develop system to fly crew from earth to the space station.

>>6841437
lel

We can only pray for Elon to save it now. Or maybe Skylon.

>>6841432

Yes, it was almost certainly the engine.

They actually had one blow up during a static firing a few months ago. Guess they didn't fix it.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/05/antares-aj-26-engine-fails-stennis-testing/
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/05/antares-aj-26-engine-fails-stennis-testing/

>>6841434
It's not like he died during a mission.

>>6841432
Actually these engines were modified by Aerojet so we don't know who is to blame.

>>6841448
We're going to have this figured out before the specialists. Go /sci/

>>6841437

RIP rest in pieces

>>6841437
>pls guys the next rocket will work pls

>>6841448
>The Antares launch vehicle’s main engine is the Aerojet produced AJ-26 – a rebuilt version of Soviet NK-33, originally intended for the massive N-1 launch vehicle.

>Buying 2nd hand Russian shit
>Expecting it not to explode

Antares is built using surplus engines from the failed Soviet N1 moon rocket.

It was also remarkably explodey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79UO4HOQmc

Orbital had one of these engines blow up on a test stand, too. This doesn't surprise me at all.

>>6841425
From earlier:

Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow 2h2 hours ago

Super-cold liquid oxygen and kerosene propellants are being loaded into the #Antares #Orb3 rocket's first stage.

>>6841437

>taking a space company public

nigga you fucked up

did that guy on the nasa stream just say "and definitely do not talk to the press"?

"Definitely do not talk to the press..." mic cuts out

LOL anyone heard some slip of a guy saying "definitely don't talk to the press"?

>>6841457
I think the guy you're replying to was talking about shuttles using oxygen and hydrogen

wait what

Comsec fail

India sent a fucking probe to Mars with scraps metal and a box of matches for about $35. How could this go wrong? It seemed incredibly routine for a launch.

This is the kinda shit that happens when we're still using rocket based technology from 50 years ago. Someone get Elon Musk in here.

>>6841455
Man, the N1 is hella funky looking. At least they tried to make not it look like an ICBM, unlike NASA.

>>6841466
IAD pls go

>definitely keep this within our family
the fuck

Why is launching rockets still so risky? It's been done for 60 years for fuck sakes.

>>6841459
>>6841460
>>6841462
>mfw the internet heard me

>>6841459
>>6841460
>>6841462
Orbital Sciences: the Sitcom
This launch is getting more hilarious by the moment.
>crash in record time
>crypto equipment on board
>don't talk to the press

American mechanical knowhow RIP.

>>6841472

I can't wait till Gauss technology is mastered. Just shoot that shit in to space in a giant rail gun.

It was a great explosion.

>>6841472
>Putting a bunch of highly explosive chemicals inside a pressurized tube
>Spray said chemicals out the bottom of the tube
>Light said chemicals on fire

>>6841463
Oh, OK. Thanks.

ooops..

>>6841479
>Not spaceplanes
Good luck sending living people in a railgun

>>6841482
Hopefully they release the 4K version

>>6841472
Because we still use the same fucking engines from 60 years ago. The industry is in a fucked up situation which basically goes like this

>"it worked once, I'm pretty sure it'll work again... Oh? You say we could build a much safer rocket for a fraction of the cost? Has it been tested? No? Oh... we'll just stick to what we know kinda works".

The only person pursuing something different is Elon Musk.

>local news reporting this as a NASA rocket
Ayy

>american
>space
lol

>>6841459
Didn't they just say earlier that they didn't want anyone talking to the press until they have an official press conference? That seems pretty logical. Figure out what happened first, then tell the press, so you don't get false info floating around.

>Payload: Fireworks

God dammit Wikipedia fiends

>>6841472
The need for low dry masses and high exhaust velocities requires stressed components with fine structural margins to be placed in proximity to high temperatures and explosive propellants.

Rockets explode.

Imagine spending several years building experiments for the ISS, only to see them go up in flames in a matter of seconds

>>6841490
>It used a Russian engine
>Footage shows the engine exploding
Russia please.

>>6841493
A rocket is basically just a controlled, continuous explosion.

>>6841491
Because people aren't going to jump to the conclusion of "LOL NASA FAILED MOAR BUDGET CUTS" anyway

>>6841496
Same with a car and an airplane.

>>6841296
>after what russia had been doing lately
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you really don't know.

>>6841494
Imagine being an astronaut on the ISS watching your food shipment blow up.
I'd presume they have enough to make it until somebody can launch a rocket that doesn't explode?

>>6841494
I might try alcohol if that ever happened.

>>6841486
>spaceplanes
Soon my friend

>>6841489
NASA validated and funded this design. It wouldn't have been built without their approval and money.

>>6841159
SHOTS FIRED SHOTS FIRED

>>6841437

What does orbital space corp have to do with nasa?

>>6841500
Except cars and airplanes use those explosions to propel mechanical parts, not the entire vehicle itself.

>>6841495
Orbital Sciences also got a Ukranian firm to design the tanks.

>>6841502
>tfw all the rockets have some sort of malfunction and you see your food shipments blow up one after the other while you slowly run out of supplies

>>6841495
So .. why the United States has used Russian engines? Useful domestic engines do not? That's it. suck and swallow.

The very first tech demonstrator for an asteroid mining company was also on board.

Fuck.

>>6841475

Spacefeld.

10/10 would watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2sBURgUBI

>>6841511
That's so fake it hurts.

>>6841511
0/5

>>6841512
Dunno but it sound like a kerbal name.

>>6841512
It wasn't NASAs rocket it was Orbital Sciences, NASA just funded it.

>>6841287

6 crew members of Expedition 41 currently onboard the International Space Station.

well shit. is the crew ISS crew gonna be running low on supplies now? half rations until next re-supply ship?

>>6841500
No. Since when did your car engine's cylinders have a safety factor of 1.3 and breathe liquid oxygen?

>>6841516
That's the start of a good horror movie where the astronauts and cosmonauts start cannibalizing each other. Small gang from between the different nation over the battle of food.

>>6841523
So is orbital sciences kind of like space X then? It seems like a nice thing of NASA to do.

>>6841518
Anyone know if they rebuild the experiments to send up at some point?

>>6841525
No, I'm pretty sure they still have plenty up there. They wouldn't be so careless.

>>6841516
They really ought to have some sort of sustainable hydroponics setup up there. Really, what if the next one blows up too? It could happen.

>>6841486
>spaceplanes
not in the US, amigo. NASA just "downselected" the Dream Chaser spaceplane, in favor of two capsules from SpaceX and Boeing.

>>6841519
How I met your wreckage

God damn this sucks.
At least no one is hurt, hopefully this will help the rockets better.

RIP in pieces, Antares/Cygnus

>>6841296
>But after what russia had been doing lately
And what, exactly? What you have now against Russia?

>>6841488
The only thing Musk is doing different is engineering for cost reduction. Rocket engines don't really have much room for improvement, technically. They are about the most efficient engine we know how to make.

>>6841525
A Dragon undocked just last week. They'll be fine for a while.

>>6841528
Like SpaceX, but public, tied up in corrupt defense contracts, have stupidly high costs and they don't design their own hardware.

So nothing like SpaceX.

Meanwhile in Kazakstan Soyuz 2-1A ready for its Progress launch debut tomorrow

>>6841516
>Gravity 2: The Hungering

>>6841511
I'm sure that's fake, but Musk has been know to make the occasional political gaffe like this.

>>6841544
>using a cold war era rocket

Russia pls

Thread music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss0kFNUP4P4

>>6841495

Watched it once but it looked more like it split up one side.

Fuel tanks? >>6841515

Hardly a russian engine, soviet motor from the sixties modified by aerojet in cali

>>6841515
yep, same factory that does the Zenit rockets for SeaLaunch. That's why the tanks are the same diameter, 3.9 meters.

>>6841548
Yeah, quit using stuff that works, ya steenkin' Russkies

>http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2001

>>6841544
Turns out it was a better idea to stick a capsule on top of an ICBM on steroids.

>>6841421
>about a week ago

>>6841240
>orbital dynamics
>NASA rocket
what

>>6841159
Nice try faggots.

>>6841556
Of course, nothing beats military technology

>>6841488
That's not true. There are dozens of engines from many countries which were are new.
SpaceX is absolutely not the only one doing different things because Tom Mueller the real brains of spaceX was working on low cost engines with another company before spaceX existed.
Merlin shares the design philosophy of fastrac.

lol why cant the iss asternots just jump down to earth

>>6841159
>supply craft to the ISS

The US can accidentally send supplies to ISIS
But can't intentionally send supplies to ISS?

>>6841159
KEK

NICE ONE AMERICA

>>6841534
>R.E.K.T
>Crash Your Enthusiasm
>The Fresh Debris of NASAir
>How I Crashed Your Rocket

>>6841539
Nope. For starters, air breathing engines and resuability would go a long way.

Kerox engines are also way too fuel rich for thermal control, you could make up efficiency there with a closed cycle. Which is ironically what the NK33 that just blew up attemped.

>>6841556
Something about ballpoint pens and pencils...

>>6841564

>>shots fired. thread. internetz won. burgerland btfo

>>6841540

ok yeah. watching the Dragon undocking video now. Good job SpaceX

>>6841560

That's what the Space Race was though, build the biggest rocket you can and tell some crazy mother fuckers to sit in it while you get launched in to the great beyond.

>>6841563
If you ever watch a Soyuz return, you'd know that's exactly what they do.

If I remember right this was the fourth or fifth launch of the Antares so don't be too terribly ignorant about your statements troll-san...

>>6841494
There is money for ISS experiments due to the desperate need to make it look busy and worth while. Those experiments will be re-flown in a few years at most.
Spend a decade on a mission not associated with manned spaceflight and see it fail, re-flights almost never happen. When it doesn't it takes about a decade for a similar mission to be selected.

>>6841567
yeah, gotta give credit to Musk for the reusability program. He has more balls than any government for being the first to attempt this.

Oxygen-rich closed cycle is great, but you need really advanced metallurgy to withstand the hot oxidizers. That is a Russian state secret, as far as I know.

>>6841569
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

>>6841557
> I been selling crack since like the fifth grade
Oh Bobby Shmurda

>and /sci/ still believes in the moon landing hoax

I have shares in Orbital.

Breaking from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/us/nasa-rocket-explodes/index.html?c=homepage-t

>Afterward, the launch director said on NASA's feed that all personnel were accounted for and that no injuries were reported.

>He added that the spacecraft contained "classified ... equipment," and that there was a need to maintain the area around the debris field for investigative and potential security reasons given what was on board.

rib

>>6841542
Nope.
Orbital science don't have stupidly high cost, that's why they were founded. They use existing hardware to cut overheads and they have done so successfully. They are not tied to the scrutinised DoD deal in any way.

>>6841584
Haven't they moved to carbon-carbon yet?

> NASA trampoline pilot project ends in fireball.

>>6841594
Let them rot. Then watch them grow. This won't be the end. They'll have some success later and stocks will skyrocket

>>6841595
>CNN
Just what you'd expect.

>>6841597
>They use existing hardware to cut overheads and they have done so successfully
>successfully
hehehe

>>6841595
The classified equipment is just crypto stuff that they don't want random yahoos walking off with. Stuff like TDRS codes and special GPS receivers.

>>6841606
This presents a buying opportunity.

>>6841595
probably dragon dildos

>>6841159
US can't even launch a fucking rocket anymore.

>>6841606
>stocks will skyrocket
like they did today lmao

>>6841606
So should I just sell now and see how low they can go?

>>6841611
too bad I don't have any extra money lying around. No idea why people would pull out. Everyone knows how risky rockets are and its not like one failure is a death sentence

End of shift. NASA going home.

A second #ISS cargo delivery will launch tomorrow morning. NASA TV coverage of Russian Progress launch starts at 1:45am ET (06:45 CET)

Should be a must-see!

>>6841548
America can not even this, lol

>>6841615
How the mighty have fallen

http://static.ylilauta.org/files/jf/orig/glv79pbd/isis_destroys_nasa_rocket.webm

>>6841606
>stocks will skyrocket

>>6841615
>list of things USA forgot how to do:
[X] hang dictators
[X] launch rockets
[ ] USANumberOne

>>6841631
DON'T CLICK THIS SHIT IT'S A FUCKING VIRUS

>>6841636
OH SHIT

Aerospace engineer here, you all are fucking retarded and I hate you all.

>>6841182
where is that video?

>>6841636
PANIC

>>6841642
Literally who?

>>6841642
Says the guy who can't even draw a rocket straight.

>>6841615
yeeep, enjoy last days of American Empire ,bitch

>>6841642
Get back to your desk pencil jockey

>>6841642
soooo who's getting shitcanned? you? probably you

>>6841645
I live like 3 hours away from the launch site. Shit never even made it above the horizon bruh

>>6841615
I-Its obviously white male oppression at work again! Where are all the black rocket scientists?!

>>6841650
He reads the newspaper in cyrillic? Holy shimole

>>6841642
Oh oh.

>>6841642
try a trampoline next time ;^)

>>6841598
No, as the thermal conductivity of reenforced c-c is very high, so you still have a piece of metal behind it subject to failiure.

I've seen nozzles where RCC, phenolic and ali were layered up, but I think it was partially ablative (was a submarine launched solid motor).

>>6841650

>>6841159

>>6841653
>>6841659
Kek, I don't work for Orbital. Some of my former classmates do, though.

>>6841660
Eat shit, Russkie.

>>6841657
>men rule everything
>US is top dog and in an era of prosperity
>women gain freedom and degenerate acceptance becomes widespread
>US turns into a retarded shithole that can't even launch a rocket

>>6841664
but.. but... it's u eat shit right now...

>>6841606
>stocks will skyrocket

you keep using that but i don-
lel

>>6841657
We're rocket engineers, you don't say 'aeroplane scientists'.

>>6841661
Thanks for the info. I've been out of the materials biz for a while.

>>6841679
>rocket engineers
benis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ8jT3KIBIQ

>>6841686
>click video
>wish that stupid nasheed that is always played doesn't come out
>it comes out

Kek

>>6841629

NASA what have you done now?

http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Orb-3/

>>6841684
>engineers
>who design overly large phalus shaped machines to spew overly hot fluids overly fast

Astronomically gay.

>>6841694
exactly nothing except filming

>>6841694
That dude blew up so many rockets, he wouldn't even look up from his desk.

Like, three quarters of this shit was under his management:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbCwSW2moo

>>6841695
Wow talk about news.

>>6841686
get back to /pol/ with your transparent propaganda

>>6841646
>>6841640
>>6841636

Bailout!

>>6841700
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbCwSW2moo

so did we even get our moneys worth out this paper clip?

>>6841566
>It's Always Exploding in Cape Canaveral

>>6841695
>http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Orb-3/

>ISS Commercial Resupply Services Mission (Orb-3)
>
>ORBITAL’S STATEMENT REGARDING ORB-3 LAUNCH MISHAP
>
>Orbital Sciences Corporation confirms that today’s Antares rocket launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility was not successful. Shortly after lift-off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at 6:22 p.m. (EDT), the vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure. According to NASA’s emergency operations officials, there were no casualties and property damage was limited to the south end of Wallops Island. Orbital has formed an anomaly investigation board, which will work in close coordination with all appropriate government agencies, to determine the cause of today’s mishap.
>
>“Today our rocket blew the fuck up.” said Mr. Frank Culbertson, Orbital’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Advanced Programs Group.“It just blew up. It just fucking blew up. We spent so much money on that shit. Oh God, I'm going to lose my job, my wife is going to leave me. It even blew the launchpad up. They don't tell you this shit, but the launchpad is even more expensive than the rocket. It has all kinds of expensive shit in it, that got blown up today. Oh my God. Oh my fucking God. How are we going to pay for this shit?”
>
>Orbital will provide more information as it becomes available and is verified.

>>6841700
Nah, only the V2s and the Juno II were von Braun's.

Von Braun was actually renowned for being a very conservative engineer.

Stoopid muricans ahaha faggots russia owns the sky suka blyat

>>6841322
Eat your heart out Micheal Bay.

>>6841721
Not to mention a very conservative conservative.

>>6841700

>All that Final Fantasy theme music

>>6841159
Faggots.

Press Conference in 5 minutes. Get the fuck in here.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.VFAzzfTF9eM

"Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Werner von Braun

>>6841718

AHAHAHAHAHA

SOVIETISCHE SOYUZ SHALL RISE ONCE MORE

>>6841732
>Passcode:Orbital

someone wanna get in on this?

>>6841686
Dat was the biggest allahuakbar in the whole history of the United States of Allahuakbar

>>6841159
This is what you all get for defying God.

Man was not made to walk the heavens.

Blasphemers!

>>6841732
They postponed it, damn.

press conference deayed to 8:45

>>6841753
>>6841754
that means the press room will explode, right?

>>6841722
THIS IS NOW GLORIOUS RUSSIA THREAD

GOD SAVE PUTIN

DEATH TO HEATHEN AMERIKAN

>>6841623
>one failure is a death sentence

its their second failure

your stocks are worthless. give it to a hobo

Capitalism should stay out of science. This is all orbital sciences corporations' fault.

>>6841642
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>6841744
What exactly is it? If they're live streaming it, what exactly does calling in get you? A chance to ask questions?

>>6841774
They've had at least 9 failures. 5 with Pegasus, 3 with Taurus, and now one with Antares.

This one isn't going to kill them. It's actually probably not a bad idea to snap up the stock people are dumping. It should rebound pretty quickly.

>>6841784
Yeah, but even then, they'll only take questions from people they know.

THEY POSTPONED IT AGAIN

>>6841642
>Aerospace engineer
>4chan
I'm not surprised, that the rocket exploded.

>Postponing press conference repeatedly

Okay that's just...

>>6841805
Every time they're ready to start, something else blows up.

>Loheed-Martin

>>6841805
they are trying to find a calculus text book so they can figure out what went wrong

>>6841805
they can't even get press conferences right

>>6841805
repeated delays are a natural part of aerospace

Space was just Liberated.

>>6841467
this
1st and 2nd world BTFO

so how much did it cost?

"momentarily", bitches.

New, dramatic footage from a private plane

http://youtu.be/zarWT7H9t54

WHERE TEH HELL IS NASA?!?!

>That feel when it's possible they can't hold the press conference because they can't keep their composure long enough to stand in front of people and answer questions.

>>6841736
They have to come out and read their press release: >>6841889

>>6841880
>Oh wow. Holy cow. Holy crap!

>>6841880
Great balls of fire.

Mesmerizing, thanks Anon.

oooh it's on.

>>6841725
almost nazi

>>6841958
thats racist!

>we take our jobs very seriously

Press conference:

>unscheduled disassembly

understatement of the year!

>call dropped

AT&T

>>6842002
>>unscheduled disassembly
Did they really say that?

>>6842022
google it, RUD is ancient newspeak.

>>6841736

kek

This fucking logic of rocket launch.
>put billions of worth of research into cargo
>hopes and dreams of the people who contributed to the researches
>use a surplus engine that's known to be a failure because of earlier rocket launches
>think somehow it's gonna work
>it doesn't
>hopes and dreams up in a ball of fire

Jesus Fucking Christ just fire whoever was in charge of designing that project.

>>6842349
you realize this is no where near the first time this engine has been used, right?

>>6841775
do you think any nasa rocket has been built by a 100% purebred civil servant work force?

you probably do, because you're fucking retarded.

>>6842363
Yeah, and the fucking peeps thought it's still gonna be 'reliable'

>>6841595
ITT: nobody knows what ITAR is.

capitalism is a fucking failure

>>6841281
>>6841544
meanwhile, Russia had a flawless Soyuz Progress launch last night. Docking to the ISS will be later today.

(This was a Russian first, by the way. It was the first Progress launched atop one of the modernized Soyuz-2. They had been using the original Soyuz-U design for Progress before, the last use of this ancient design.)

> 2013, Antares launch successful
> RT: Launch of Russian/American Rocket Antares Successful!
> http://russian.rt.com/article/15603

> 2014, Antares launch failed
> RT: Ukrainian/American Rocket Antares Blows Up!
> http://russian.rt.com/article/56738

>>6843390
additionally, ULA just had a successful Atlas V launch of a GPS satellite.

Modern Russian RD-180 good
Ancient Soviet NK-33 bad

>>6841717
>Cape Canaveral
This launch was at Wallops, retard.
>Antares packs a big wallop

>>6843462

>they still haven't changed it for consistency
That fucking sloppy editorial, my sides are igniting.

NASA: We initiated the self destruct system

Well done. Next time try doing it BEFORE it crashes onto the beachhead and bursts into flames.

>>6841472
Nazis invented these rockets. We just copy / paste them from 1944 cause we have no briliant Aryan mind to tell us about the secrets of technology.

>>6843657

>>>/pol/