Did fueling procedures cause Falcon 9 launchpad explosion?
This Wall Street Journal article today speculates that “problematic fueling procedures” might have caused the September 1 Falcon 9 launchpad explosion.
Company officials have said it is too early to arrive at definitive answers, though one person familiar with the investigation said initial concerns about potentially substandard welds have been relegated to a low priority. If testing bears out early findings focusing on problematic fueling practices instead of hardware flaws, SpaceX likely will avoid a major redesign effort or extensive quality-control checks that could drag on for months.
Caution must be exercised here. The article depends on unnamed sources, and does not provide any details describing how fueling procedures could have caused the explosion.
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This Wall Street Journal article today speculates that “problematic fueling procedures” might have caused the September 1 Falcon 9 launchpad explosion.
Company officials have said it is too early to arrive at definitive answers, though one person familiar with the investigation said initial concerns about potentially substandard welds have been relegated to a low priority. If testing bears out early findings focusing on problematic fueling practices instead of hardware flaws, SpaceX likely will avoid a major redesign effort or extensive quality-control checks that could drag on for months.
Caution must be exercised here. The article depends on unnamed sources, and does not provide any details describing how fueling procedures could have caused the explosion.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The WSJ article is behind their subscription paywall.
Frank: Interesting. When I click on the link I am able to access the entire article. I do not have a subscription, and in fact, am usually unable to access their articles.
>They don’t put everything behind their paywall, all the time, for all web-visitors.
They want you to buy the content but not all the content is pay-walled.
It was in the Midwest print edition Friday morning. I checked it (through the link above) last night to see if they had added any new information, and I had to log myself in to see it. (I do have a subscription to the WSJ but don’t often read it on-line.)
This morning, after seeing Frank & Mr. Z’s comments, I checked it again, not logged in, (and with my browser cache cleaned) and they are now showing the article in full.
(occasionally, you can end-run the paywall by doing a search from the home-page, but that is not guaranteed to work.)
Tangentially– this brings up an interesting Topic;
-Not everyone ‘sees’ the same Internet, as everyone else does, pay-walls or not. Depending on your ISP & whether you are logged in any social-sites, how you access certain sites, and if you are following search-links, what you see has been “delivered” (they say “customized”) to you.
I just tried it again and the full article comes up. I guess the lesson is keep trying.
I was able to read the whole article too. I used to use http://bugmenot.com/ for situations like this, but it’s not as useful as it used to be.