General / Off-Topic Antares Blew up on lift off.

[DanTheMan]

What a shame. Was quite entertaining.

 

[Maxeren]

Yeah that looked sick... i barely made it off the pad

 

[2000gmod]

I wonder what failed.

Fuel leak maybe?

 

[Serpentis Ictis]

Looked like an issue with the fuel flow, big shame as private enterprise is the definitely the future of space travel.

Hope this won't delay too much, the next launches.

 

[knowles2]

Orbital seem to have a lot of problems with their Antares rocket. It such a shame.

 

[Faerie]

Did it have a "Light blue touch paper & retire to a safe distance" warning ?

 

[Catalyser]

Ouch.

Damn shame.

I watched the video closely. Looked to me like a small pressure wave happened just before it lost power. My 2 cents are on a pressure chamber going pop and taking out critical hardware.

Orbital Sciences share price goes down. SpaceX share price goes up.

Best of luck to the both of them in future.

 

[Dusty]

Raw video: NASA's unmanned Antares rocket blows up on liftoff

[video=youtube;aOh0kHErC2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOh0kHErC2w[/video]