Saturday, May 19, 2012

Space X launch abort on pad 40

Space x;s Falcon Nine rocket, carrying the dragon capsule aborted on the pad at ignition for this mornings launch. The auto sequence computer found fault with high tanking pressure in engine number five and aborted the launch.  The only live coverage was from BBC World News on cable. Everyone else was re-running.
NASA launch coverage and SPACE X both had webcasts..Amazing amount of twitter coverage.
Safing is occurring and the launch will be recycled to the next launch attempt on Tuesday morning at 3:44 AM EDT.

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