Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again
This time the launch abort occurred at T-0, when computers detected that the rocket’s fuel was not cold enough and would not produce the thrust required.
I was caving all day today and only returned late tonight.
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This time the launch abort occurred at T-0, when computers detected that the rocket’s fuel was not cold enough and would not produce the thrust required.
I was caving all day today and only returned late tonight.
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
Sorry to see the launch scrubbed. Hope this was purely a “temperature thing,” & not a hardware/software “problem.”
“I was caving all day today”
You sound like the Republican congressional leadership!
Have to give SpaceX credit for not caving to pressure and launching with their fingers crossed
(unlike NASA with Challenger).
If they are having so many problems with fuel temperature in March, how are they going to handle a mid July Florida launch? Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of SpaceX and private space in general, but it sounds like they need to figure this out and in a hurry. As you have said in a previous post Robert, their backlog is starting to become worrisome.
I don’t know if they plan on trying to recover this first stage but if they are they better just give that idea up.
And if they do give it up they could remove the landing legs from the ship and save all that weight.