SpaceX Falcon 1 Rocket Launch, Attempt #2

The second launch attempt of the Falcon 1 rocket by SpaceX. This one "clearly got to space with a successful liftoff, stage separation, second stage ignition and fairing separation," to quote SpaceX's VP of business development.

*EDIT* The control room voices are about a second behind the actual video, and according to some people they're too quiet. This was recorded directly from the stream, so there's nothing I can really do about it. :P

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• SpaceX
• Rocket
• Falcon
• One

[w5cdt]

Looks like guidance system oscillation towards the end of the video.  Lots of gimble action? What was that anyway?

[AnnathGL]

If I remember correctly, it was a bug in the stabilizers caused by an unexpected amount of movement in the fuel tank, but don't quote me on that.

[astifan1]

how much money did they spend on rocket

[AnnathGL]

According to SpaceX's website the standard cost for a Falcon 1 mission is between 7-8 million dollars.

[Eisenmond]

Second stage failure caused by impact of nozzle (14:35 into video). Wicked oscilation due to this impact. Needs a little more work.

[blyndrotor]

From what Ive seen and read the 1st stage cowel hit the exhaust and caused an oscilation

That grew expedentially, you can see the correction a moment after the seperation that Slowly gets worse.

[ThatAdelaideGuy]

Very Nominal

[blyndrotor]

@rtgtyg5tygyg65ygyyy

Well congratulations. You found a comment that I made 2yrs ago when I'd had a few (plenty) of beers. Please forgive an intoxicated mistake. My humblest apologies to you you my easily offended friend. Yeah i know I'm being flippant.

You know it would have been much more polite to just point out my mistake without displaying a healthy amount of immaturity by being a jackass and calling me a retard.

Save it for the arguments or you'll have nothing left when you want it.

[rtgtyg5tygyg65ygyyy]

@blyndrotor expedentially is not a word retard, you mean exponentially.

[n4120p]

the permanent solution would be wave breakes inside tank and the servo actuators that move the engine in its gimball mount should have a several variable reaction speeds for the nozle steering, this way the resonance coupling with the fluid would always be avoided regardless of the amount of fuel in the tank,,,JA Ja I know a lot of this.............

[n4120p]

I heard they lost this one soon after what we see here, as the fuel got consumed and had empty space it started to orbit inside the tank , they either did not provide enough wave breakers or something, the thing is the rocket started to oscilate ,the guidance gyros try to correct by redirecting the nozle but the correction speed is such that coupled the fuel woble and the whole thing oscilated more and more as there is less fuel left in the tank,,, they fix it now and went to orbit. er

[170166]

Very impressive.

Why was the exhaust cone wobbling like that towards the end?

[HeksfjellArmy]

what?... is this a amateur rocket??

[54spiritedwill54]

keep dreaming...

[Hmmmmzzz]

looking for friends

great vid an

[lithiumdeuteride]

Pyrotechnic fasteners and pneumatic pushers.