Cygnus CRS Orb-3, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 3 or Orbital 3 (Orb-3), is the fourth planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus automated cargo spacecraft, its fourth flight to the International Space Station and the fifth launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. However, launch was unsuccessful, exploding and crashing back onto the pad approximately 6 seconds after launch.
== Spacecraft ==
This is the third of eight flights by Orbital Sciences under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This will be the first flight of the Antares 130, which uses a more...
The export of cryptography from the United States is the transfer from the United States to another country of devices and technology related to cryptography. Very strict export restriction which existed until 1992, and were gradually eased until 2000, but some restrictions still remain.
Since World War II, many governments, including the U.S. and its NATO allies, have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations, and, as late as 1992, cryptography was on the U.S. Munitions List as an Auxiliary Military Technology.
In light of the enormous impact of cryptanalysis in...
In today's crash, seen below, there was a control operator who stated, right as the rocket blew up, "Avionics Power nominal". What does that mean exactly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjrqN02gUdk
The Antares rocket carrying Cygnus just exploded. A video is available here, explosion at around 3:00.
In the video, right as the rocket begins to slide down and explode, a flight controller says "Avionics power nominal". This is the scene when he begins his sentence:
It would seem that nothi...
