SpaceX Falcon 9 engine explodes in orbit! Starlink and Starliner astronauts in jeopardy!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- The unthinkable has happened! An anomaly caused a Merlin engine to explode on a SpaceX Falcon 9. This could doom the Starlink payload, but the consequences are far worse than that!
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ATTENTION IRRITATING HATERS!!! This is, word for word, what SpaceX says happened to that Merlin engine:
"Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown."
Now, what does RUD mean? Don't think about it too long...you'll strain yourselves.
So I didn’t lie about the engine exploding. I haven't lied ONCE in the history of this channel!
Also, I wasn't the first journalist to talk about the implications for human spaceflight!
spacenews.com/falcon-9-suffers-upper-stage-engine-failure/
@@TheAngryAstronaut Stay angry, about space 😉
@@fractalelf7760When people tell me "You're actually a nice guy, and not angry" I reply: "That's because you're not a hater. Lol."
By "IRRITATING HATERS!!!" you mean the majority of people commenting?
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is a generic term not unique to explosions. It could mean critical parts of the engine suffered RUD which led to a malfunction of the engine. No hatred here I just think explosion is a misleading title that will get more clicks, but I get it's your job and you need to bring the bucks in. Bit disappointed though as your channel is entertaining enough not to need tabloid type video titles.
@@FeralRabbitcan you count ? I don’t see that at all in fact I see positive comments dominating this vid .
I still would ride cargo dragon in a lawn chair before I rode on Starliner.
Agreed
Regarding your comments on the ISS and crew Dragon I think the thing you're forgetting is that SpaceX has plenty of second stages available. We're not talking about a old Legacy space company that might be able to produce one or two a year. Rather SpaceX could send multiple crew dragons empty to the ISS to recover people if necessary. That's the genius of doing space at scale you've got a lot of backups and another second stage failure isn't going to harm anybody since the dragon is going to use its own thrust
That's a very good point!! The accident may still delay human spaceflight overall, but yes...I'll make sure to mention this in my next video.
Crew Dragon separates after SECO-1 and makes the rest of the way to the ISS using Draco thrusters.
The Starlink 9-3 mission achieved nominal orbit insertion despite the apparent icing around the M-Vac engine. It was the second burn to circularise the orbit that didn't happen.
As such, I believe this kind of anomaly would not have prevented mission success for a Dragon launch, but there's no doubt that it's a cause for concern.
Well stated facts imo.
Very well said. TAA is really going fully drama here.
Yeah, if it was a Crew Dragon mission, they probably could have performed an abort to orbit and likely even gotten to the ISS
Facts! Elon started they're going try the ion engines on the satellites to try and get to their correct orbit so they couldn't have been far off.
@blackeagle1985 no, the 2nd stage reached orbit, so the dragon capsule would still be in a good orbit to separate. This mishap happened during the 2nd relight of the engine
No launch platform is going to be 100% fault free, space is hard and unforgiving.
What an amazing technical masterpiece. The engine explodes and keeps on working...
It didn't explode, just a leak
Just a sec... With Crew Dragon, there is no SE restart, where this engine (allegedly) blew up. And the second stage was in a parking orbit already, not decaying.
And??
@@chrismoule7242 Hyperbolic clickbait. Angry needs to stick to aliens or something.
@@TheGhungFuwhy don’t you write something worth reading ?
@@empiremanagement1015 So you agree that one engine anomaly after over 300 launches, literally thousands of near-perfect Merlin engine trips to LEO, including many re-fights, puts the entire Falcon/Dragon program at risk, as Angry suggests?
Silly you!
Explodes? When? MALFUNCTIONED is more accurate.
Sounds to me like it exploded. Elon replied in a tweet to Chris Bergin with: "Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown. Team is reviewing data tonight to understand root cause.
Starlink satellites were deployed, but the perigee may be too low for them to raise orbit. Will know more in a few hours.'
SpaceX tweeted: 'During tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink, the second stage engine did not complete its second burn. As a result, the Starlink satellites were deployed into a lower than intended orbit.
SpaceX has made contact with 5 of the satellites so far and is attempting to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters.'
To which Elon replied: 'We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9.
Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot.
The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up.'
So it's unclear as to how bad a RUD it was. At the time of their first update they had only made contact with 6 out of the 23 or so Satellites but I'm not sure if that's normal early on, or whether numerous satellites were trashed in the RUD. All SpaceX says here is that the satellites were 'deployed'. They don't say how they were deployed.
Considering this hasn't happened until now after all these launches can probably just be as simple as an isolated incident where this particular falcon 9 wasn't inspected as thorough as others.
It's possible - and if so heads will roll. They'll have to. SpaceX can't afford any complacency at all in this business.
@@chrismoule7242Who else has a better record?
That's not how it works when it comes to manned craft. Nothing is dismissed as a one-off that just happened to fail, so let's forget about it and move on. Nothing 'just happens' NASA will want answers as to what happened and why it happened.
@@brendanpells912 there will be dozens of launches before next dragon mission
@@just_archanIs this going to affect Polaris Dawn, though?
Exploded might be a strong word to use hence there was no explosion. Anomaly would be preferred since F9 is a very reliable rocket
As the old saying goes, space flight is never routine.
AA couldnt wait to report on a space x failure, so he made a mistake and didnt notice😂 Dragon Capsule separates after Stage 2 engine cut off. So a crewed flight wouldnt have been in jeopardy
Yet they are now grounded...
@@chrismoule7242 which is normal when things don't go according to plan
At worst, considering how spacex operates, this will be a minor disruption, it is unlikely that anything of note will arise from all this despite how others will try to use it.
AA headlines for the next two weeks; "EXPLOSION SPELLS END FOR SPACE X", "ELON MUSK DECISION MADE ENGINE EXPLODE", "FAILURE TO PREDICT FUTURE WILL DOOM SPACE X"
Did Thunderfoot take over the channel? 😂
Deep down I think AA resents Elon. He was after all a social worker previously. Government largesse promising “safety” is their banner.
Yup lol.
"Alt right racist Elon Musk pollutes space"
We can only dream. But there will always be more than enough Elon sycophants to offset good journalism.
"SpaceX Falcon 9 engine explodes in orbit!"
Nice MSM title.....
Yep. Calling BS clickbait on this one.
Uh, huh. Just because Elon Musk uses the term "RUD" doesn't mean that the engine didn't explode!
Jesus! Has Musk managed to remove entire words from fanboy vocabulary?
@@TheAngryAstronautyou only became an Elon hater after he bought Twitter. FACTS.
@@TheAngryAstronaut"the burn didn't go as expected, and then the engine exploded" which obviously didn't happen. They blew it up, because of a leak by the engine. You spun your whole story of "had a crew Dragon been on the mission after the engine exploded" on false premises. Which obviously wouldn't have happened in this situation, why in the world would they blow up the second stage with the crew capsule attached? Literally just a lie at that point.
Unsubbed. You're biased af, and obviously can't handle criticism to your opinions and obvious clickbaiting.
@@TheAngryAstronaut please don't stoop to BS hype clickbait tactics
I was one of those who watched the launch and noticed the unusual ice build up as well as what looked like a propellant leak.
Propellant is at room temperature. Ice buildup means a LOX leak, not a propellant leak.
@@RockinRobbins13 All fuels+oxidizers are considered propellant.
@@BobCat0 I contest that. there are propellants and there are oxidizers. The propellant in Falcon 9 is RP1.
@@RockinRobbins13LOX is propellant. Fuel and oxidisers are both propellants.
No doubt they'll want to understand what happened before a crewed launch, but nothing would prevent them from sending up an empty Crew Dragon as a life raft.
The past generation of rockets had a critical failure rate of about 1 out of 75.
NASA set the rate for these new boosters at 1 out of 200. Yes, they are aware of the
risk given the complexity and amount of energy involved.
It’s the major reason for redundancy using separate companies for booster and crew vehicles.
This is an issue, it’ll be examined and corrected, until it happens again sometime in the future.
It’s the nature of the endeavor.
can someone explain to me why 90% of all UA-camrs who do space stuff are ***** clickbaiters ??
They’re trying to make a living doing it.
@@hamishalexander5048 Destroying the trust of your viewers is death for your channel. If you want the truth you go to Scott Manley. If you want a good laugh at a UA-camr so desperate for clicks he's willing to alienate his viewers see Angry Astronaut.
Unfortunately, my experience with customer no service is that if you treat people badly enough long enough they'll demand it.
Just cause its 2024 don't stop space travel from being dangerous.
Yeah, this again.
Starliner can return to Earth, it's the service module that has problems, not the capsule itself.
Dragon 2 is designed to carry 7 people on board, and it's still attached to the ISS, and NASA made a scenario to use Dragon 2 for extra astronauts during that time when the Russians tried to destroy the ISS.
I'm sure SpaceX will investigate this pretty soon, it's not their first rodeo.
I wouldn’t call that an explosion. The ship wasn’t lost and continued to function. So I would call it a minor malfunction. We’ll see but I doubt this will cause any delays to manned launches.
As for Boeing, they are clearly in deep trouble. Really the logical thing to do would be to use their craft to return cargo as it is unclear on its safety and send up a rescue craft, either another less faulty Boeing or a proven and reliable SpaceX craft.
True but NASA is going to say, "we can't consider a SpaceX rescue until a complete investigation is completed'. This takes them off the table for a rescue mission for Starliner imo.
@@gwhite7136 They can, but it only impacts NASA, no one else. Space X will continue to launch its Starlink satellite in the meanwhile.
@@archigoel Oh for sure. But it also impacts Starliner. If Space X were to go and get them from the ISS, well, what does that do to Boeing investors? The planes are bad enough.. I think an unnecessary risk and for sure this takes Space X off the table in any discussion of them going up to the ISS to get them.
As I understand it, the issue that is keeping the vehicle up in space is related to the unpressurized trunk. They’re leaving it there for troubleshooting because that trunk isn’t coming home. Better to troubleshoot on the actual device than the do it in simulations.
SpaceX invited everyone and their grandma to tour the factory, everyone except Angry Astronaut. Every small malfunction will be an explosion from now on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Space is hard
Although an investigation/resolution may be required to launch crew, a crew dragon can still be sent to the ISS to recover "stranded" astronauts, as it can travel and dock autonomously. Replacing crew could be an issue, but I believe recovering crew would pose no concerns.
Somewhere…some place….boeings got a bounce in their step today 😂
Saying explosion is clickbait imo.
Keep the content, and headlines accurate or you threaten credibility.
"Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown. Team is reviewing data tonight to understand root cause. Starlink satellites were deployed, but the perigee may be too low for them to raise orbit. Will know more in a few hours," Musk said via X about two hours after liftoff.
"RUD" is short for "rapid unscheduled disassembly" - SpaceX-speak for an explosion or disintegration. (Perigee, in case you were wondering, is the point in an object's orbit when it's closest to Earth.)
An hour after Musk's post, SpaceX provided more details via the company's X account.
"During tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink, the second-stage engine did not complete its second burn. As a result, the Starlink satellites were deployed into a lower-than-intended orbit. SpaceX has made contact with 5 of the satellites so far and is attempting to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters," the company wrote.
yeah, it sounds like the engine ate itself instead of exploding
I mean they successfully launched and recovered the booster with successful missions over 350 times with the Falcon 9, so I think it will be okay.
Ok, cover this like Starliner:
BREAKING NEWS!
Falcon 9 Grounded
NASA Unable to Resupply ISS Due to Failed Rocket-Supplies Running Low
Polaris Dawn On Hold
Next ISS Crew Stranded on the Ground
See how silly this is.
Oh no, SpaceX isn't perfect. Fuck, the most reliable rocket ever, Soyuz, has had failures.
Like ie gyroscopes somehow mounted otherway😂😂😂 on crew mission 😂.
Wasn't that the Proton rocket and acceleration sensors?
I think falcon 9 took that title from soyuz recently with 300 launches to soyuz 150 or so, I could be wrong tho
I watch them ALL. Saw it.
Whoof! That must've been quite a thing to witness in real time.
This is very very good. Space X was not getting any opportunity to learn anything new. This will be a good learning new failure modes and get more data.
Starliner can return, they just want to spend as long as possible understanding the problems that have arisen because the service module isn't being brought back, and you can't learn any more from it once it's burned up. For SpaceX, the fact that one engine has failed after so many have not failed, isn't an excuse to dismiss it as a one-off. NASA will want to know why THiS engine failed, and not let go until they have definitive answers.
Damn....everyone else has a failure or mishap....it like oh well, jus try again itll be ok.....youll get it next time.....but god forbid if SpaceX has a mishap....it like its the end of space flight....and elon is the devil.....WTF.....
Glad you posted this lil update, i was one of them that missed the launch and had no idea this happened till this morning!!! Keep up the good work, Jordan! 🤟
I didn't read or hear anyone doing or saying that. What is going to happen is like every other anomaly which occurs for any rocket. It may be grounded until a root cause is determined and any updates necessary implemented. If anything. I see the reverse. Some say based on the track record, they should not ground F9 for a long period of time.
@pebmets not yet... but give it time....the naysayers haven't rolled outta bed yet. And I agree with you. The track record for F9 speaks for itself, and a pause in launching shouldn't be along one.
@@johndoepker7126 70 launches so far this year. 1 maybe failure. They are trying to boost the sats to their orbits by use of the ion thrusters. So it still might be a success even with the engine failure.
quit moping around thinking Elon is somehow impressed that you show up and "defend" him and his companies. This is what happens when you win a lot and then have a bad day. And SpaceX wins nearly all of the time. So when something goes bad, it's going to get press. Why pretend to take it personally and take the time to type this garbage. No one cares.
@@johndoepker7126Fun fact : You were literally replying to a naysayer.
Wow, you got that up fast!
Engine explosion... Then shows a engine not exploding. Dude has gone down hill fast.
Hey...idiot! Elon Musk himself said that the engine experienced an RUD. I challenge you to find one f-ing title where I've ever lied about ANYTHING.
You didn't lie but you can't deny it's a bit of a 'click bait' title
@@stevenschofield9720haha yes part of the game I guess. Not a lie but sensational titles. A rapid unscheduled disassembly does not always mean explosion. Every see a v8 tear itself apart at a high ŕpm? Yet thats really a rud as well.
Not fun to see a piston fly through the block. So it may just have been the turbos seized or even pop, looked like it was still in one piece, but we'll find out eventually.
space will never be rutine
ironically if this had been the upper stage for a Crew Dragon we would have been none the wiser unless a relight is required to deorbit the upper stage (and long after Dragon seperation).
I was watching from California and was surprised to see the live feed cut off
I’m going to go out on a limb and make an educated guess of a valve failure/malfunction causing the unscheduled rapid disassembly…
There goes the whole “send SpaceX to rescue Starliner” discussion.
My favorite source for bad news about … well, many things. As long as you refrain from blowing up SpaceX merchandise I’ll be a fan. You and Ellie are my two favorite sources of timely SpaceX news, atm.
Butch and Suni looking at each other like 😳
You eat one foot and you are branded a cannibal for the rest of your life.
Toe-tally expected. You don't heel from that. You become the arch-enemy of society. Can I go now?
ylandess6072 😂😂😂
@@terrylandess6072At least you’re in step with the others.
@@executivesteps Now don't leap to conclusions.
@@terrylandess6072 My good friend Achilles’s tendin’ toward a career in Podiatry.
😎
Hi from north Africa.
I'm surprised you said hi to your viewers in Africa.
Been following your channel for 2 years now.
But crew dragon doesn't need the rocket to get it back to Earth.
Easy to get an empty crew dragon to the space station with no threat to anyone?
Excellent reporting 👍
I was watching this launch last night, and l have never seen that much ice coming off an engine!! Something had to be leaking bad...
It wasn’t ice (frozen H2O) condensing or freezing on the launch pad. It was a leak of liquid O2 that was freezing as it exited the source of the leak. O2 liquifies at 90K and freezes at 50K.
Rockets blow up sometimes.
You could clearly see propellant leaking out in a thin stream, in the more zoomed out view just near the j shaped pipe.
Nothing to worry! All was good until something strange hapend. I presume that was a puncture from space debris . In 7 years you are happy that this was the first time. GO SPACE X
Saw a dodgy channel had just the video with nothing. Wasn’t sure if it was fake. Sure he’d twitter and saw Elons tweet. Decided to wait for your video. Thanks AA
I'm with Angry on this one. If we can't PROVE it was hit by Oumuamua or somehow got snagged by it's massive solar sail we should scrap SpaceX and use Soyuz. Go red or go dead😂
I'd rather come back on Dragon than take my chances with the Russian capsule, which has had its own problems recently.
OH, Boing. Sounds like a part falling off an airplane. Hey where did the door go?
Im sure elon will want some answers ASAP regarding this anomoly !
Starliner... not stranded, but can't come home.
Big Deal! Nothing is perfect. They've gone a long time without any major failures. I wouldn't crucify SpaceX because of one engine. Now if you talk about Starliner...
Absolutely, sooner or later eventually anything can and will fail. We can only hope its very rare. Aircraft and Space are very unforgiving.
Definitely an unfortunate turn of events. Hopefully the investigation will be quick & the vehicle won’t be grounded.
Thank you for catching and reporting it quickly.
If only we had 70s tech...then every launch would be flawless untill voyager and challenger
Obviously you didn't pay attention during the Apollo 4 and Apollo 13 flights.
@@RockinRobbins13 Many other missions had minor failures but still succeeded due to their robust design, backups, and fallback procedures. For example: In Apollo 6, one of the four Saturn V engines shut down early due to a wiring error. Apollo 11 lander experienced a 1201 alarm on its computer during descent. Apollo 12 faced a power issue that was resolved by switching the SCE to AUX. Despite these issues, the missions succeeded because of redundant systems and procedures, such as having a manual method to trigger lunar ascent with a bolt cutter if electronics failed.
@@RockinRobbins13That was Apollo 6, 2nd Saturn V all-up test. Apollo 4 worked flawlessly.
@@dalethelander3781 You're right because the very next Saturn V flight went to the Moon with Apollo 8.
@@xponen _" In Apollo 6, one of the four Saturn V engines shut down early due to a wiring error. "_ It was POGO, unstable thrust, which threatened to tear the entire vehicle apart. That motor was shut down, and the vehicle aborted to orbit.
POGO was a problem on many rockets of the day, including Soviet ones. NASA was the first to identify the cause and correct it, resulting the the Saturn V being the smoothest ride to orbit in history from then on. Those movies showing extreme vibration during launch that bounced astronauts around like bee bees in a boxcar are wildly inaccurate.
This was how the alien movie ended😮 the 👽 👾 is thrown into the engine 😊
It looks like the computer intelligence in charge of this rocket engine didn't even miss a beat.
Looks like that rocket wasn't even moving
Crew Dragons are already on ISS to return same crew that launched on them. This only affects further crew launches.
Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦
Add another edge case to the knowledge base
I watched ! There was a lot of ice, they said 'no problem' but ...
Dragon was only at 134 km after SECO1. That did not seem to be right to me. The ice spray was going on during the first firing of stage 2. Likely Falcon 9 is OOS for at least the next year, and the FAA will pull the human rating. The Northrop Grumman resupply mission on August 3 is also in jeopardy.
Looked like it was venting fuel, they said lots of frost.
Everyone making comments needs to note that the footage we have is during the 1st burn by the second stage, showing the build up of an ice (likely LOX). We don't have footage from the 2nd burn where it did a RUD of some sort. Ah, so the engine had some major issues. So, I hope they let us (and NASA) know exactly what happened. Was it a fuel or oxidizer leak? Did a turbopump have a RUD? How did it escape quality control? Will be interesting to find out. Still, they have an enviable track record. Over 300 successful fights. New Glenn has er, zero.
"Stranded" is a bit of a hyperbole though. NASA said that in case of an ISS emergency, they would indeed ride Starliner home. Beggars can't be choosers I guess. "Any port in a storm" and all that. Wonder if the Russians even have a Soyuz that is ready to go and could be sent up with one pilot to bring them home?
Wow
Maybe it is just me...but I cannot see the engine exploding...
Clickbait crap spells doom for small "content" creators, you know?
I was expecting to see the second stage engine explode through whole of the video, but saw only ice building up. Is there any video of it which shows it exploding?
What I’m thinking is the delay of the stream would prevent us from seeing that. It would essentially show as the stream simply cutting off. We’ve seen this with starship streams where there are RUDs. I’m also hearing conflicting information about whether the engine actually exploded or not but apparently Elon stated that there was in fact a RUD.
SpaceX, Astronauts, starlink in TROUBLE 😂😂😂😂😂
Got to get those clicks ! 😉
Very worrying considering astronauts rely on this engine type!
I really don't know much about the subject, but the spacex capsules all come down again. Can't they be sent up empty on autopilot?
Exploration is hard, and the further you go, the harder it gets. There will be more tragedies, because every road man has ever traveled, their bones remain to pave way for others to follow.
The space program has had casualties before, and not just the shuttle crew. Thankfully, this looks not to be one of those type of a losses.
But Boing's reputation is taking a lot of body blows lately, what with doors, and wheels, and various parts falling off. Bad optics.🤣
So a 2nd stage malfunction on launch means a dragon capsule can't re enter?
Well, at least it was just a starlink launch
dang the space debris is what sucks here one orbit taken off the list
You didn't show any rocket engines exploding. It seemed to be firing fine.
I pray that the astronauts will eventually be safely brought back to Terra Firma. Perhaps the Saturn V should be brought back into commission along with the old space shuttle?
I could see the propellant leak.
And here we are. The reason why Starliner exists. This is it right here
Calling BS on this one (again). This was the second stage of Starlink launch and NOT A DRAGON or BOOSTER. Just not the same at all.
Please try to not be hyperbolic about this stuff.
Thank God we have Starliner to fall back on... or I mean trip over in the garage.
While this was bound to happen eventually and I think crew would be able to return to earth fairly safely if it happened, angry is right that NASA is going to want a significant investigation to make sure this does not happen on a Crew dragon launch.
Isnt starlink orbit higher than ISS? Not sure this comparable. Kinda shortsighted to just throw this out there, second stage failed on one mission out of literally hundreds. It's gotta be an easily identifiable error to this specifc second stage.
Dragon would have been fine. The initial burn completed correctly. The re-light failed. Clearly the 2nd stage engine was leaking (fuel?) during the initial burn video. But it did complete the burn. They will find out what the issue was and make the rocket better and even more reliable. It is what they do.
That may mean that Butch and Suny (braid it!) are going to have to prolong their stay.
“Braid it”! Just cut it - you look like an idiot.
Well, on a rescue mission, Dragon would be unmanned at this point of failure right? I agree an investigation is warranted. But in real life, this part of the spacecraft would be jettisoned prior to docking and picking up humans.
"And a Cheery on the Top" wrong. And a Cherry on the Bottom" when melting scrap aluminum cans in discarded presurised cylinders.
So no rescue ship for astronauts stuck on ISS any time soon
Like on the freeway when you hop in a car some bad things happen
Meh
That video seems to show fluid coming off too. Probably a liquid oxygen leak.
umm ya i dont see that sir..crew dragon isn't starlink..re lights..ect.. your just angry..period
Status is now partial failure after second stage failed to restart. Starlink satellites have been successfully deployed in a lower orbit.
First failure of an upper stage for a Block 5 rocket. Only the 2nd failure of the upper stage in general over 254 flights. This upper stage is as comparable in safety/reiliabity to Centaur 3 that has been a part of Atlas 3 and 5 rockets since the year 2000. Knowing SpaceX this will be taken care of relatively quick.