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Anonymous ID: 3e7df6 March 30, 2018, 11:14 a.m. No.841952   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2631

$6 million fairing "impacted water at high speed," Elon Musk says

SpaceX's Elon Musk says the fairing, or nose cone, "impacted water at high speed."

 

He didn't call the experiment a failure, but that doesn't necessarily sound like a success.

 

He said the team would be doing "helo drop tests in next few weeks to solve."

SpaceX launched another rocket today.

 

Here's what went right: Liftoff occurred just after 10 a.m. ET from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and the primary mission went off without a hitch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered a group of 10 satellites into orbit for communications firm Iridium.

 

Here's what didn't: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that as the $6 million fairing, or nose cone, fell back toward Earth, the parafoils that were supposed to slow its descent became tangled.

 

So the "fairing impacted water at high speed," Musk said. That likely destroyed it.

 

SpaceX had hoped to land the nose cone into a giant seaborne net.

 

What went right (and wrong) in today's launch

 

People want to know why SpaceX's feed cut shortly after launch

A curious thing happened not long after the SpaceX rocket launched into space – the stream cut.

 

A SpaceX anchor said that people who wanted updates would have to turn to Twitter as "NOAA restrictions" required they cease the broadcast.

 

That's not normal – SpaceX normally streams far more of the launches, and the mysterious reasoning had many space fans and reporters trying to figure out what NOAA restrictions were in place.

 

Now, NOAA tweeted that it was "looking into questions" on the interruption, and would update everyone once it knows more.