Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing
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This is right in my backyard. I work and live only a few miles from Kennedy Space Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/01/spacex-explosion-launch-site-florida
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@IRJ Did you feel the pressure wave?
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@travisdh1 said in Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing:
@IRJ Did you feel the pressure wave?
I didn't personally. I am about 4 miles away and I was in the server room at the time.
I did see a couple friends post about it feeling it on facebook. One friend almost fell off his kayak from it.
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I used to drive out to New Smyrna Beach when i lived in Orlando a couple times a week. Got to see quite a few rocket launches. One Shuttle launch, but i was in Orlando for that. Still i could hear it(60 miles) and it lit up the daylight sky like a sparkler at night.
Im sure spacex will get the problem fixed. Too bad it was an internet.org satellite though.
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@momurda internet.org, is that a Facebook company? I ask because the news show has been reporting it as a Facebook satellite that blew up on the pad.
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@travisdh1 said in Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing:
@momurda internet.org, is that a Facebook company? I ask because the news show has been reporting it as a Facebook satellite that blew up on the pad.
It was a facebook satellite, I didn't know facebook produced shows..
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@DustinB3403 said in Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing:
@travisdh1 said in Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing:
@momurda internet.org, is that a Facebook company? I ask because the news show has been reporting it as a Facebook satellite that blew up on the pad.
It was a facebook satellite, I didn't know facebook produced shows..
CDN
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@scottalanmiller Ah.
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Facebook does a LOT of stuff. Access into other countries is a big thing.
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Don't have any idea what this sat was for. But FB is so big that they could have simple needs like wanting a dedicated line with zero third party costs or leaks that can move tremendous data between two countries internally without hitting an ISP.
