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By RYAN GORMAN Newly-released Vine footage shows the moment a SpaceX rocket missed the barge it was intended to land on and exploded at impact. The explosive crash happened last week, but SpaceX ...
The test ended with a hard landing-at 10 m/s – most likely due to partial helium ingestion from the fuel header tank. Three landing legs were not locked in place, producing a slight lean after landing. Although the vehicle initially remained intact, the impact crushed the legs and part of the leg skirt. Eight minutes later the prototype exploded.
SpaceX had planned to make the sixth controlled-descent test flight and second [34] landing attempt on their drone ship no earlier than February 11, 2015. Landing a returning rocket at sea would have been a "potentially historic rocket launch and landing", as such a feat "was unheard of" five years earlier. [34] [35] [36]
Excerpts of the NASA-SpaceX joint webcast of the abort test (video) The abort test was a full simulation of a malfunction on a nominal trajectory to the International Space Station. [5] The abort was triggered by a command from ground control. [25] At T+1:25 minutes, the booster engines shut down and the capsule separated itself from the booster.
No information yet about timings, though the SpaceX livestream is showing the same time: 7am local central time. Elon Musk tweets about free speech as public waits for news on Starship launch
Starship launch live: SpaceX shares photo of rocket ahead of countdown 10:17 , Anthony Cuthbertson The 20 minute launch window for today’s attempt is set to open in less than three hours.
In August 2016, the demonstration flight was moved to early 2017, [10] then to summer 2017, [11] to late 2017 [12] and to January 2018. [13] At a July 2017 meeting of the International Space Station Research and Development meeting in Washington, D.C., SpaceX CEO Elon Musk downplayed expectations for the success of the maiden flight:
The live stream will begin around 45 minutes before launch. If everything progresses on schedule, that should mean that it will begin around 8.15am eastern time, or 1.15pm in the UK.