Re: Falcon 1 Fire Caused by "Procedural Error"-New "Info"
- From: echomko_at_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Chomko)
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:44:33 +0000 (UTC)
Ed Kyle (edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: Geoffrey A. Landis wrote:
: > On 7 Apr 2006 "Ed Kyle" <edkyl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> had written:
: > >>Heck, it [SpaceX] has already suffered, after
: > >>only one attempt, half as many failures as NASA's entire
: > >>space shuttle program did in 25 years!
: >
: > No, in fact it has now suffered the *same* number of launch failures as
: > the space shuttle program has in 25 years. (The shuttle has had one
: > launch failure and one re-entry failure; if Columbia's mission had been
: > defined as getting into orbit, it would have been a success. SpaceX
: > has yet to attempt to reenter from orbit.)
: The way I see it, the root cause of Columbia's loss was
: damage suffered during the launch phase. This makes
: it a kind of launch failure, or at least a failure associated
: with the launch phase, in my eyes at least.
Hard to say. Tile falls off during launch and causes damage that results
in a disaster during re-entry. Who's to say that the problem was putting a
defective craft on the pad in the first place? IOW, did the launch cause
the damage or was it defective on the pad prior to launch?
Eric
: - Ed Kyle
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