Antares rocket explosion

[mrjarrell]

I would imagine that these launches are insured on an individual basis, by a company like Lloyds. You're basically paying a certain sum to insure and they're taking your bet.

 

[Lectric102002]

I would imagine that these launches are insured on an individual basis, by a company like Lloyds. You're basically paying a certain sum to insure and they're taking your bet.

Kind of like the cars you could win for an ace in a golf tournament. They know the odds are long.

 

[ratfortman]

Well, launching rockets has taken a back seat at NASA to the new, improved mission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCn10YWsY1Q

 

[mrjarrell]

Well, launching rockets has taken a back seat at NASA to the new, improved mission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCn10YWsY1Q

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What part of that is ambiguous?

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Insurance coverage just means the failure is being paid for by the other policy holders in the group.

 

[MrSmitty]

As Obama said NASA's job is to promote Islam...this was a tribute to the Suicide vest...just more costly, less deadly

 

[ratfortman]

I must have overlooked that. My bad. I stand humbly corrected. Will there be a punishment?

 

[Tactically Fat]

My cousin (real life rocket surgeon) did some work for Orbital in the past. They're the ones that engineered the rocket body.

(Same cousin that also used to work for the company that did some of the engineering / design work for the latest edge-of-space parachute jumper)

Again, though, he didn't do any of the actual work on the Antares rockets. Minotaur, is one he actually did work on, I think he said.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

So, we shouldn't mob your cousin's house with torches and pitchforks, then?

 

[9mmfan]

Just let SpaceX handle things. They actually build their own rocket engines. And they seem to have their ***t together.

 

[Tactically Fat]

So, we shouldn't mob your cousin's house with torches and pitchforks, then?

Well, at least not for THIS.

Plus he lives in Albuquerque. The one in New Mexico.

I had to look up how to spell that city's name. I don't know that I'd ever attempted to write that out before now. What a weird word.

 

[Lectric102002]

There's a video a guy took from a Cessna 177 of the explosion. You can see the shock wave buffet the plane.

VIDEO: Pilot in Cessna 177 captures explosion of Antares rocket from 3,000 feet - ABC15 Arizona

 

[T.Lex]

A friend of mine was heavy into rocketry. He maintains that Soviet/Russian rocket technology was always ahead of ours. We had better stuff that actually did stuff in space, but they had better stuff to get there.

I wonder if we messed something up rather than it being a design flaw.