Comments on: SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 1 Rocket http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:42:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Acronyms http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151829 Acronyms Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:52:34 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151829 Step by step they do archive what is planned. Step by step they do archive what is planned.

]]> By: Jon Lee http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151654 Jon Lee Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:11:50 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151654 Sounds good. I heard about SpaceX when doing a report for my physics class about IDIQ and the USAF. SpaceX has a pretty good headstart on the other startup spacecraft enterprises, as it already has a billionaire sponsor (Mr. Musk himself), as well as several lucrative gov't contracts. Of course, tackling spaceflight giants like ArianeSpace isn't an easy task, but at least it is getting started. Oh yeah, apparently there was a problem with the second stage rocket booster, which caused the rocket to abort it's designed path early, so... not perfect, but a good start. Sounds good. I heard about SpaceX when doing a report for my physics class about IDIQ and the USAF. SpaceX has a pretty good headstart on the other startup spacecraft enterprises, as it already has a billionaire sponsor (Mr. Musk himself), as well as several lucrative gov’t contracts. Of course, tackling spaceflight giants like ArianeSpace isn’t an easy task, but at least it is getting started.

Oh yeah, apparently there was a problem with the second stage rocket booster, which caused the rocket to abort it’s designed path early, so… not perfect, but a good start.

]]> By: Steve Jurvetson http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151653 Steve Jurvetson Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:11:17 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151653 I just posted several frames from the video feed. “We did have a roll-control anomaly,” Musk says of the second stage. Fate of the rocket remains unknown. Elon says the rocket may have re-entered the atmosphere prior to reaching the intended orbit. The rolling motion caused the second stage engine to shut down early. The rocket uses dynamic throttle control to stabilize the flight without fins. After the cowlings fell away, it went into a wobble. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/ I just posted several frames from the video feed. “We did have a roll-control anomaly,” Musk says of the second stage. Fate of the rocket remains unknown. Elon says the rocket may have re-entered the atmosphere prior to reaching the intended orbit. The rolling motion caused the second stage engine to shut down early.

The rocket uses dynamic throttle control to stabilize the flight without fins. After the cowlings fell away, it went into a wobble.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/

]]> By: Matt Bowes http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151647 Matt Bowes Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:06:20 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/20/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-1-rocket/#comment-151647 Inaccurate. The webcast cut out after an oscillation in the second stage began to increase exponentially. The fate of the Falcon I remains unknown. Please see <a href="http://spaceliberates.us/news/after-seemingly-successful-launch-falcon-i-second-stage-fails/" rel="nofollow">this</a> for the full scoop, as it unfolds. Inaccurate. The webcast cut out after an oscillation in the second stage began to increase exponentially. The fate of the Falcon I remains unknown.

Please see this for the full scoop, as it unfolds.

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