Oct 082012
While the Falcon 9 successfully delivered its Dragon capsule to the proper orbit, one of its nine first stage engines failed during flight. The engine was automatically shut down after a loss of pressure was detected, and it appears that the sudden loss of exhaust pressure caused the collapse of the aerodynamic fairing around that engine. Not good. But it did the job, and hopefully SpaceX will learn & improve. The failure can be seen at about 1:30 here:
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Or in slo-mo here:
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