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SpaceX Launch Delayed

Solitaire

Neoclinus blanchardi
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Does anyone know when they'll launch again?

By the way, they're a small firm improving lauch reliability by ten times.
Here's the web site with media. SpaceX
 
I didn't see a point in starting a new thread, so I resurrected this one. Link below with video of SpaceX launch. One engine shut down, but apparently the craft is proceeding as planned.
I was surprised to learn that the Saturn V experienced engine failure twice, but was designed to recover also.

During last night’s launch, an engine exploded — and yet the Falcon 9 rocket continued its climb into the stratosphere unabated. Believe it or not, Falcon 9 is designed for such “engine out” occurrences. When you’re burning RP-1 and liquid oxygen to produce 138,000 pounds of thrust, explosions happen. In this case, the Falcon 9′s on-board computers almost instantly register the engine failure, and then alter the output of the remaining eight engines to compensate.
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It does appear to have cost them their secondary payload. This launch had a primary payload of the Dragon capsule headed to ISS, and a secondary payload of an Orbcomm satellite. The second stage of the rocket was supposed to restart after the Dragon separated and push the Orbcomm satellite into a higher orbit, but the loss of the first stage engine meant the second stage had to burn longer just to get the Dragon into the right orbit and couldn't get the secondary payload into its target orbit.
 
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