Att andrasteget inte landat normalt har ju varit känt länge. Den herrelösa raketen har ju seglat runt I veckor innan den slog ned i Polen. Den sköts upp från Vandenberg så då kan den väl hamna var som helst på jordklotet, inte bara inom +/- 53° latitud.
När SpaceX kraschar raketer utanför Australien så faller ofta rymdskrot ned, vad jag förstår. Området avlyses från sjöfart. Var denna herrelösa raket skulle slå ned borde man känna till. Men man varnade inte för kraschande raketer i Polen. Förmodligen är man så cyniska att man bara hoppas att ingen människa träffas. Det skulle bli för dålig PR om man utrymde ett område i Polen för att låta raketen slå ned.
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Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage;
Falcon 9's upper stage misfires again. The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket remained in orbit following a launch Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. ... While airspace warning notices from the FAA showed a reentry zone over the eastern Pacific Ocean, publicly available US military tracking continued to show the upper stage in orbit this week. Sources also told Ars that SpaceX delayed two Falcon 9 launches this week by a day to allow time for engineers to evaluate the problem.
3 in 6 months ... This is the third time since last July that the Falcon 9's upper stage has encountered a problem in flight. On one occasion, the upper stage failed to reach its targeted orbit, leading to the destruction of 20 Starlink satellites. Then, an upper stage misfired during a deorbit burn after an otherwise successful launch in September, causing debris to fall outside of the pre-approved danger area. After both events, the FAA briefly grounded the Falcon 9 rocket ...
Feb 7
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/rocket-report-blue-origin-flies-for-lunar-research-dods-new-interest-in-starship/
I september aktiverades Merlinmotorn (vacuumvarianten) en halv sekund för länge när den skulle tas ur bana.
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> SpaceX can't afford anything but 100% clean success
Given what Musk is doing, SpaceX having 300 % clean success wouldn't help with the optics. There's not going to be a problem with the FAA or NASA, though. Musk is effectively the head of the federal government now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/s/zcweLq2z5L
SpaceX personal jobbar redan på FAA under ett specialprogram för att anställa personal med funktionsnedsättning 🤣🤣🤣
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SpaceX engineers were already being onboarded at the agency under Schedule A, a special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job,” according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
https://www.wired.com/story/faa-doge-elon-musk-space-x/
