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[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they had control when the first 3, then 4 engines failed, why didnโ€™t they shut off the remaining 2 engines that would go on to spin the rocket?

According to Manley, the remaining engines were non-vectoring, so there was never a way to keep flying straight with lopsided thrust. Shutting down would have kept it from spinning and allowed more data acquisition before aborting.

[โ€“] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You saying shut down the engines from the ground? The vehicle computer would have a much better understanding of the system than the people on the ground during those first minutes. I'm guessing they just needed to trust their programming at that point.

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If youโ€™re talking milliseconds, yes, but it was many seconds between losing the engines and aborting. If they have the nasa level of engineers monitoring this, they sh out k f have noticed pretty fast. Either one should have shut them down faster.

Even the camera director had noticed and cut away to the studio.