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SpaceX Launches 'Pretty Good' Test

Posted March 21, 2007 10:17 AM

From Discovery News:

A new commercial rocket reached space after launching from a Pacific atoll Tuesday but then probably re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after half an orbit because of a problem during the second-stage burn, an entrepreneur said. Nonetheless, Elon Musk, founder of Space Exploration Technologies, characterized the launch as "a pretty good test" during a post-flight teleconference. "We successfully reached space and really retired almost all the risk associated with the rocket, so I feel very good about where things are," he said.

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Re: SpaceX Launches 'Pretty Good' Test

03/22/2007 10:15 AM

Two things that look amiss to me are that the 2nd stage nozzle bell begins to glow red and it looks like it's gimballing constantly to maybe correct something upsetting the vehicle in yaw and/or pitch. Maybe the nozzle has burned through on the side away from the camera and is vectoring thrust normal to the flight trajectory?

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