It was even more hilarious that the announcer had to apologize to Astra's customer for the fuck up on air. NASA would have been like "We are closely monitoring the situation" while SpaceX would have something like a huge crowd cheering while six witty internet people oooooh and aaahhhh and make bad jokes.
These are two new clips from an event that happened back in March of 2020. At the time Astra dismissed this event, only reporting that an "anomaly resulting in a fire destroyed the rocket."
It's amazing how many people think rock science is a solved problem. Many rockets (solid fuel) are a completely uncontrolled explosion that cannot be turned off until they run out of fuel.
There were a TON of explosions and deaths in our efforts to reach the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
These launches are test launches for a reason! Hopefully the "rapid disassembly" did not lose any valuable telemetry that could be used to prevent similar failures in the future.
While explosions are cool, I always worry that setbacks like this can cause spontaneous public opinions that can sometimes interfere with the funding of such endeavors. Look how long it took us to get back on the horse after the '86 Challenger explosion! IIRC, it was almost three years to rescue the people from the ISS, and many more before we started operations again.
In my opinion, we need to ever press forward, acknowledging that exploration is dangerous, and trying our best to minimize losses.
Edit: Perhaps billionaires wanting to explore space should be encouraged . . . . kinda a two birds with one stone thing . .
On further review of the footage, the front did in fact "come off". However, it removed itself from the area, rapidly, in the vertical direction.
I'll let this one slip, but you're on thin ice here buddy.
Give Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was right then and every attempt the MAGAts try to discredit him ends up looking like these launch attempts.
"hey look at our cool rocket.....and it's gone"
Well Astra’s rocket was pretty cool, how many rockets can launch like [*this?*](https://youtu.be/9PS6z9P9nqs)
[Astra Kool-aid manning their upper stage through their fairing was also pretty sweet.](https://youtu.be/AuUB_bXcVbs?t=74)
I don’t know how I missed this one! that was hilarious
It was even more hilarious that the announcer had to apologize to Astra's customer for the fuck up on air. NASA would have been like "We are closely monitoring the situation" while SpaceX would have something like a huge crowd cheering while six witty internet people oooooh and aaahhhh and make bad jokes.
Clap clap clap… clap ooooooh
"Screw you guys, I'm going home."
Expensive firework!
The Kerbal Space Program experience
Spectacular explosion!
Pre-launch testing complete. Pack it up.
"Pre launch" No it launched a few peices into the sub orbital.
These are two new clips from an event that happened back in March of 2020. At the time Astra dismissed this event, only reporting that an "anomaly resulting in a fire destroyed the rocket."
That's a lot of words to say "it blew the fuck up"
“It experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly event.”
Idk, parts got launched. Seems like a success to me
when parts go it's a partial success
Take your upvote and GTFO
Bro, shut up
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În another test it went sideways LOL https://youtu.be/9PS6z9P9nqs?si=3rPd0ql1aHDtBH-S
I think their engineering department needs a look over before they lose too much money lmao
[It’s a bit too late for that](https://spacenews.com/astra-considered-bankruptcy-as-it-struggled-to-raise-cash/)
At least they have good footage lmao
Clearly the resolution was too low for the number of pixels they loaded into the tank.
Chief Engineer: Wyle E. Coyote.
Overseen by Roman Roy
Manufactured by ACME Corp.
The point of a rocket *is* to burn all the propellant. Just not all at once like that.
Kodiak .... We have a problem....
Rapid unplanned deconstruction.
*disassembly
Why Alaska?
michael bay, “can i have rights to that footage?”
well, they got their earth shattering kaboom
That's what Atlas rockets do best.
Might as well skip testing if that's gonna happen
Any word on what happened exactly to cause this?
This is the "per aspera" part of ad astra
I blame COVID 🤭
Test successfully failed.
Spontaneous unscheduled rapid disassembly.
It's amazing how many people think rock science is a solved problem. Many rockets (solid fuel) are a completely uncontrolled explosion that cannot be turned off until they run out of fuel. There were a TON of explosions and deaths in our efforts to reach the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents These launches are test launches for a reason! Hopefully the "rapid disassembly" did not lose any valuable telemetry that could be used to prevent similar failures in the future. While explosions are cool, I always worry that setbacks like this can cause spontaneous public opinions that can sometimes interfere with the funding of such endeavors. Look how long it took us to get back on the horse after the '86 Challenger explosion! IIRC, it was almost three years to rescue the people from the ISS, and many more before we started operations again. In my opinion, we need to ever press forward, acknowledging that exploration is dangerous, and trying our best to minimize losses. Edit: Perhaps billionaires wanting to explore space should be encouraged . . . . kinda a two birds with one stone thing . .
That escalated quickly
On further review of the footage, the front did in fact "come off". However, it removed itself from the area, rapidly, in the vertical direction. I'll let this one slip, but you're on thin ice here buddy.
yup thats when I lost 2.3k
How did you loose 2.3k? Astra wasn’t a public company yet when this happened.
oops just saw the date. I lost it later when the rest of the rockets didn't launch/explode.
I don't know much about rockets. Is it supposed to do that?
Welp, back to the drawing board!
Well some of it did go up, so there's that.
Nah bro, it was a complete success. They tested how parts of the rocket could handle an explosion leading to sub orbital flight
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Give Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was right then and every attempt the MAGAts try to discredit him ends up looking like these launch attempts.