SpaceX rocket explodes on launchpad

Anomaly occurs at 1m12s:

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“Did the satellite by any chance contain Zuckerberg?”, he asked hopefully.

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And that was how John Connor saved us all from Skynet…

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Its the sad sight of the payload module breaking off and plunging in to the flaming concrete that really makes that an “oooooh” moment.

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This is rocket science. If it’s not hypergolic, it’s moderately combustable. If it is hypergolic, it is self-igniting and highly combustable. If it has a nickname like “the devil’s venom,” it has been used often enough to earn a nickname.

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It was an anomaly waiting to happen…

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No, no, the Doves are going up on an F9 launch from Vandenberg (FormoSat 5/SHERPA)., previously scheduled for October.

SHERPA will look like this: The Doves will come from the cubesat dispensers:

FormoSat sits atop the large ring. Nearly 100 satellites launched on one rocket.

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But the Myspace satellite is OK, right?

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I wondered how they kept the doves on top of the rocket without flying off

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