The first attempt at the aerospace of the firefly by obtaining its alpha rocket in the outer space ended up in a spectacular explosion today, and was grateful to video by a useful spectator.

A spectator of today’s launch by the private space company Firefly Aeroespace that goes by Adrian T on YouTube captured the company’s alpha rocket flight, as it took off from Vandenberg’s spatial force base in California and captured the moment in That the rocket was encountered with an anomaly soon before exploiting in an impressive fireball.

Firefly Aerospace launched a statement on Twitter about the test flight and said that the company brought together many valuable data from him, although he did not make him space as planned. Firefly does not know yet what caused the anomaly, but we have arrived at the company for more information and we will update the story if we hear new details.

Analysis: The space is hard

While it is tempting to see explosions as spectacular as “failures”, it is not really the right way to look at the rocket launches.

Getting a rocket in space is one of the most difficult engineering feats that there are, so we say mockingly that simple tasks are not “rocket science”. But as in all science and engineering, without mentioning life itself, “failures” are often even more important than successes.

Undoubtedly, Firefly’s Aerospace wanted to see that his rocket turned it into outer space, that is what is built throughout his company, after all. But we learn more about something when things go wrong than when things go well.

The history of the successful spatial flight is based on a legacy of rocket failures as the first attempt of the United States to obtain a rocket in orbit at the end of the 1950s, the avant-garde Rocket nodded ‘Kaputnik’ after it flew Launchpad, but finished paving the pavement. Way for the successful apollo program.