Blown Launch!!

it looked good for about 3 seconds.....then it failed

Bummer...no injuries though....

http://kdvr.com/2014/10/28/nasa-rocket-blows-up-on-lift-off-in-virginia/

"Other than that, how did you like the play Ms. Lincoln?"

"The first stage uses RP-1 (kerosene) and liquid oxygen (LOX) as propellants, powering two Aerojet AJ-26 engines, which are modified Soviet-built NK-33 engines. Together they produce 3,265 kilonewtons (734,000 lb_f) of thrust at sea level and 3,630 kN (816,100 lb_f) in vacuum.^[6] As Orbital has little experience with large liquid stages and LOX propellant, some of the Antares first stage work was contracted to the Ukrainian Yuzhnoye SDO, designers of the Zenit series.^[11] The core provided by Yuzhnoye includes propellant tanks, pressurization tanks, valves, sensors, feed lines, tubing, wiring and other associated hardware.^[19]"

^"First Antares launch to use Castor 30XL upper stage; payload included a Planetary Resources Arkyd-3 satellite and a NASA JPL/UT-Austin CubeSat mission named RACE.^[37][38][39] The Antares rocket encountered an anomaly seconds into the mission leading to the explosion of the rocket and loss of the payload.^[40][41]"

^{RACE mission....}

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2014/10/16/first-step-toward-asteroid-mining-planetary.html?page=all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_(rocket)

"Hey, what's this red button do...?"

Guy Fawkes night and the fireworks were a week early this year. Usual Date Nov 5.

Mission Control to ISS: "Hey guys, we've got some bad news. You'd better go from 3 sheets to two until we can get some more TP up to you".

NASA says..http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/orbital.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HaD5zZjeE

40 year old soviet surplus engines reconditioned......must have missed something....

So all scenarios are covered:

Triumph of American technology if it succeeds or,

Failure of Russian junk when it goes wrong.

I think the Atlas uses the same engines.

must have missed something.... What do you mean we didn't read the fine print ..... SOLD AS IS And welcome to the Space age of old technology

Uhh...

...Oops?

I think they'll find a problem with their pumps (rocket motors). it had initial ignition but lost thrust after 5 seconds or so. either it went short on fuel or oxidizer. the data will tell the story.

Surprising that 45 years after going to the moon and back we still have rockets failing big-time.