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SpaceX Mishap?
By othercents on 10/15/2012 4:04:20 PM , Rating: 2
Nice slant, but Orbcomm has a different perspective:

The OG2 prototype was deployed into a lower orbit as the result of a pre-imposed safety check required by NASA. The safety check was designed to protect the International Space Station and its crew. Had ORBCOMM been the primary payload on this mission, as planned for the upcoming launches, we believe the OG2 prototype would have reached the desired orbit.

RE: SpaceX Mishap?
By Nortel on 10/15/2012 4:09:53 PM , Rating: 2
Everyone knows the basics about redundancy and odds of failure. If you have 9 engines strapped together and all 9 HAVE to ignite you have zero redundancy and the more rockets you add the higher your odds of failure are. Every rocket engine added into the mix compounds the chance of failure.

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By kattanna on 10/15/2012 4:57:24 PM , Rating: 2

from what i read elsewhere..spacex wasn't even allowed to try because they deemed the ISS and crew were to valuable to risk for a little satellite, which I agree.

while some will try to make it look like a failure, I don't agree because it wasn't allowed to even proceed

RE: SpaceX Mishap?
By Brian H on 10/20/2012 8:04:33 AM , Rating: 2
Actually, were it not for NASA-imposed paranoid safety constraints, the engines (including the glitched one) could have re-ignited after 2nd stage separation and lifted the Orbcomm into a high enough orbit. But SpaceX was constrained from doing so by NASA rulez.

Maybe Orbcomm and the insurer should sue NASA for any added cost that ultimately results.

