Comments on: Elon Musk’s Full Statement on Falcon 1 Launch Failure http://www.parabolicarc.com/2008/08/03/elon-musks-full-statement-on-falcon-1-launch-failure/ If it goes to space, you can find it here. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nickolai_the_Russian_Guy http://www.parabolicarc.com/2008/08/03/elon-musks-full-statement-on-falcon-1-launch-failure/#comment-82 Nickolai_the_Russian_Guy Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:50:02 +0000 http://www.parabolicarc.com/?p=1832#comment-82 There's something that puzzles me. Spacex's website states that the first stage burns out at T+169s, followed by stage separation, but the "anomaly" occured at T+140s, so what is missing? Is there something that has to happen at 140s for stage separation to occur at 169s, or does the first stage burn out sometime before 169s, or what else could be going on because these numbers don't seem to add up. There’s something that puzzles me.

Spacex’s website states that the first stage burns out at T+169s, followed by stage separation, but the “anomaly” occured at T+140s, so what is missing? Is there something that has to happen at 140s for stage separation to occur at 169s, or does the first stage burn out sometime before 169s, or what else could be going on because these numbers don’t seem to add up.

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