INSIDE THE FIREBALL! GoPro Hero 2 & The Inferno When Antares Orb-3 Rocket Blows Up

[@EricNTammy304]

Astonishing colour! I guess the fire brigades had to wait for all those bits to stop flying about before they could get to it. Bloody stunning!

[@DavidWoroner]

Fantastic opportunity to study detonation. Beautiful images of what was surely disappointing to others. < In all events, there are things learned. ;--) Thanks for posting this.

[@redcheese1234]

*clapping* BRAVO, I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN!!! *watches the video 1000000 times*

[@falafeldurum2095]

3:00 why is there a cut? :/

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Absolutely Glorious! What is the camera set in, some sort of fixed box with a sapphire light shield or something?

[@jaker.astrophotography8076]

When you try to cover your ears from the explosion but then u realize you have headphones on.

[@user-ry9rw5fi5k]

haha lol how cute

[@WatDaMattaForYou]

Did any sand or glass melt around the launch site area? There are people who could feel the heat from the blast a couple of miles away.

[@Sixclickz]

One of the giant light post concrete foundations flew about 200 feet through the air. The liquid oxygen tank was almost hit. Luckily that didn't happen. most of the fuel actually doesn't burn though because the heat of the blast is so extreme that it almost instantly consumes all of the oxygen in the area. Oxygen is needed to burn the fuel.

[@lordyogi595]

Amazing video

[@Zoomer30]

The issue was the engines that powered the rocket. Orbital Sciences needed to save some $$$ so they bought 40 year old Soviet Moon Rocket engines from Aerojet, who had bought them at fire sale prices after the Soviet Union broke up and these novel engines that were "closed cycle" (exhaust from the pre burner was channeled back into the combustion chamber, increasing thrust and and over all power). They were originally designed for the N1 moon rocket, they needed to be higher efficiency to make up for lower thrust and cut down the number of engines in the 1st stage to "only" 30. Versus 5 F1 engines on the Saturn V. Needless to say we were WINNING! the Space Race long before the finish line.

[@Zoomer30]

+crobc1 The engines sat in a warehouse from 70-71 to the mid 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Aerojet bought them, made minor modifications to them (main one was tp make them compatible witj US propellants). The acual first successful flight of one of these engines was in 2013 on a Cygnus flight. 40+ years after development (all of tje the USSR flights were failures) Orbital Sciences has obviously dropped this engine: Definitely a case of "buyer beware".

[@Zoomer30]

+crobc1 The Soviet rocket develop methodology was to use full flights as tests. So they blew up a lot of rocket's in the process. The plan for the Soviet lunar missions was something like 12 N1 launches with only the last 3 to actually be manned. But the problems developing the engines, coupled with Korolevs death (head of the entire Soviet rocket program) and the US getting to the Moon first, it killed their motivation.

[@Sixclickz]

It's a shame I can't share my very exclusive videos from the actual on-base cameras that orbital gave me that wasn't shared with the public. They're pretty crazy. Especially the infared one.

[@fivehundreddollardreamboat]

Just do it man

[@hotelmario5203]

I’m sure he’s lying

[@ralphwalters906]

Oh those Russian engines that came in from the cold. Russian rocket scientists had problem after problem trying to solve the ingestion of metal fragments choking and destroying that particular engine design just after liftoff.

[@BitGridTV]

wow - so many sparkles for my next video :D

[@dlanniltd]

2.11 The last thing you'd see in a nuclear attack.

[@mrpicky1868]

much better then a burning man

[@FloozieOne]

Very expensive fireworks. Funny that it launched from Wallops Island... pretty well named. Moral: Don't buy old things that can blow up.

[@fastmclaren71]

sounds like thomas the tank engine turned up at the end to see what he could do.

[@RDR-qg9pw]

I saw a washer!!

[@pjotrslanina1403]

Oeps.....Thats a very expensive bill for NASA.......

[@kylerazor1050]

*Orbital Sciences

[@Sixclickz]

+kylixx NASA still paid them for a the launch though. So NASA did lose money.

[@RDR-qg9pw]

Epic gender reveal show

[@hawkeye-vv4kb]

Not sure who built the rocket, but I think it was NASA. If that is the case, I am not amazed why NASA seems to outsource the building of their space vehicles to private industries. The folks who built the Shuttle and Apollo rockets are more or less all retired or retrenched. Shows you that it is not a good practise to outsource your core competency.

[@jatenten]

hawkeye0248 Antares (/ænˈtɑːriːz/), known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Orbital ATK) to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs. Able to launch payloads heavier than 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) into low-Earth orbit, Antares is the largest rocket operated by Orbital ATK. Antares launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and made its inaugural flight on April 21, 2013.[5] Following the failure, Orbital sought to purchase launch services for its Cygnus spacecraft in order to satisfy its cargo contract with NASA,[23] and on December 9, 2014, Orbital announced that at least one, and possibly two, Cygnus flights would be launched on Atlas V rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. So, for some facts, NASA is going to bail them out using their facilities and rockets. State Facts.

[@Kuckerkarlson]

allah akbar!