[amsat-bb] Re: Falcon 9 Successfully Launched

[B J]

On 9/30/13, R Oler <orbitjet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> there was at least one issue that is going to snake them...the second stage
> did not relight...if I was the QC person from SES I would want to understand
> why, how they fixed that...and would probably want to see a demo
> flight...wonder if the next Dragon flight goes before the SES and the folks
> play with the second stage some after that?  If that happens to bad there is
> not a payload to put on it  :)  Robert WB5MZO

According to this, it was a computer problem:

http://innerspace.net/2013/09/30/one-thing-old-two-things-new-proton-flies-osc-and-spacex-triumph/

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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