Orbiter 2010 - October 2012 SpaceX Dragon Launch - Live Real Time Simulation

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Published on October 8, 2012 4:51:29 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRoOIoZzwmY

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In this video, I am launching the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the ISS. I recorded this flight live and in real time to coincide with the actual launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX launch vehicles and Dragon

http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5442

Some news about this flight:

Something happened at T+1:20 after liftoff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6zsZiVa998

Live video shows that something happened right at the time of MaxQ (see 5:21):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGaKsSFS6E&hd=1&t=5m10s

From Spaceflight Now:

"SpaceX says Engine No. 1 on the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage experienced some sort of anomaly about 80 seconds into the launch.

Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO and chief designer, said the engine was shut down by the rocket's on-board computers.

"Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down," Musk wrote in an email to Spaceflight Now. "As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit, which is why the burn times were a bit longer."

The first stage burned nearly 30 seconds longer than planned.

Nine Merlin 1C engines power the Falcon 9's first stage, generating nearly a million pounds of thrust. The kerosene-fueled engines are built by SpaceX at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.

Engine No. 1, positioned on one of the corners of the tic-tac-toe pattern of first stage engines, was shut down earlier than planned, according to Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president.

Shotwell said she was not sure of the cause of the problem, but the engine was turned off.

"Like the Saturn 5, which experienced engine loss on two flights, the Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine flameout and still complete its mission," Musk said. "I believe Falcon 9 is the only rocket flying today that, like a modern airliner, is capable of completing a flight successfully even after losing an engine. There was no effect on Dragon or the space station resupply mission."

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/004/status.html

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