[amsat-bb] SpaceX Launch Failure Today

Steve May steve.w5iem at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 02:15:53 UTC 2015


I'm curious about the payloads on these rockets that fail. Is there any
guarantee on the "delivery" of the payloads, even the paid ones? Or is
there any sort of insurance that can be purchased in events such as this?

Steve, W5IEM

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 1:24 PM B J <va6bmj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/28/15, Alan <wa4sca at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/qfyz92n
> >
> > Key point:  nobody hurt.
>
> <snip>
>
> The flight looked like it was proceeding normally until close before
> the point when staging would have occurred.  I watched the video and I
> didn't hear a controller mention anything unusual until the mishap
> occurred.
>
> 73s
>
> Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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