Firefly continue stellar run of Alpha rocket launches as first stage explodes on the pad
Video credit: LabPadre
Meme credit: u/rustybeancake
For those keeping score on Firefly Alpha’s track record:
Flight 1: failure
Flight 2: partial failure
Flight 3: success
Flight 4: partial failure
Flight 5: success
Flight 6: failure
Flight 7: today’s ground explosion
This compares to Astra Rocket 3.0’s track record of 2 successes out of 9 launch attempts (including ground failures).
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Such a Texas video
Junkyard, highway traffic, and textbook mushroom cloud
The junkyard is across the highway from the test site and is where this was obviously filmed. I would also question calling this "Flight 7" as this is a test facility. No flights originate there.
This man beat Calgon and freed Southern Sun, we should trust him.
Certainly lives up to the fire part of the name
Turns out this shooting stuff up without exploding is harder than expected! I thought it wouldn't be so hard, I mean it's not like it is rocket science!
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
Oh no, I'm developing empathy for Firefly. It sort of stings.