Astra rocket suffers anomaly during orbital launch attempt

[darthwader]

This is just progress.

NASA proved that rockets can go up.
SpaceX proved that rockets can go down.
Now Astra has proved that rockets can go sideways.

[InvestmentJoy]

He set the max throttle to 50% in the launch center. Then forgot to change it before he hit space bar. Everyone has done this, don't Make fun guys....

[GhostlyBanes]

I love how she doesn't comment on the rocket tokyo drifting to the side

[narayanverma]

Engineers: "Hey! where you going?"
Rocket: "Hawaiiii!"
"Come back here you little shit. You'r supposed to go up!!"
Rocket "Ok..."

[HarryPotter-uvyp]

I don’t know if the Astra team will see this comment, but I’ll say this:

This failure was magnificent. I don’t say this to ridicule, but applaud.

You had a chance for a total catastrophe on the launch pad. Instead, you made like a bee and flew despite everything saying you couldn’t. It’s truly amazing, and inspiring.

Keep flying!

[Wib]

The ASTRA-slide is now a thing. Pretty cool.

[ssteve]

I love how the camera man momentarily panned up thinking he missed it

[MikeSalsgiver]

That is by far the most unusual lift-off I've ever seen.

[DGFishRfine]

I'm just impressed that after a horizontal launch, the thing maintained orientation and didn't explode. That was bonkers.

I wonder if they'll include an optional launch drift maneuver into the payload user's guide?

[nomarspaulding]

They must have pretty solid control systems/software for that thing to have actually flown after that malfunction.

[TomTech]

They talk of an anomaly way up hill, but fail to mention the rocket almost rolling over off the pad. Must admit : It did a great job of recovering from that. But that incident might have killed any chance of getting into orbit.

[Cgsailor]

No wonder there's so much pessimism in the world.

All the optimism on the planet got used up in the flight announcers single statement of "Our next objective is MaxQ!"

[herblederble]

When your rocket in KSP doesn’t have a high enough Thrust to Weight ratio

[adammorgan]

As an ignorant spectator, the correction at takeoff actually seemed pretty impressive to me! Normally once one points that far off 90 degrees, you start wondering how long it's gonna take them to rebuild the launchpad...

[teammadcow]

Super impressive.
Loses one of the 5 engines at liftoff, and starts tilting to that side. The remaining engines gimbal to try and recover.
Since it has a thrust to weight ratio of 1.25 to 1, losing one engine means it just hovers until enough fuel is burned off and it can start it's ascent.

Source: my smart friend

[johnnyj]

That'll NEVER get old, I hope they'll show us the other camera angles too.

[franksolario]

14 ton rocket with 14.2 tons of thrust.

[rbxless]

I love how she just says "Alright, we're going to Max-Q" after THAT

[d.m.e.]

The fact that it was able to correct itself after the initial problem & still head in the right direction is impressive & the more problems that happen in the early days the better, We'll end up with a much safer system going forward.
That said the sooner we can build space elevators the better.

[PinataOblongata]

Now to patiently wait for Scott's commentary on everything that probably went wrong with interesting side-notes from history!