SpaceX Falcon-9 Feeds The Reefer
Monday, July 14th, 2014Congrats to ORBCOMM, providers of ReeferTrak and other fine services, on their launch this morning…
Thanks to SpaceX for bolting a rocketcam to the fuselage!
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Falcon 9 Engine Anomaly
Monday, October 8th, 2012Nice video by Bad Astronomer…
One of the nine Merlin engines powering the Falcon 9 had a failure 90 seconds into the flight. It’s not clear what happened just yet, but there is pretty dramatic footage of the engine failure; in the slow motion video below you can see some sort of flash and puff of flame at the 30 second mark (I’ve set the video to start 22 seconds in).
You can see a bright spot glowing on the upper right engine, then what looks like shrapnel blowing back as well, so it appears something catastrophic happened to the engine.
The launch itself was pretty cool…