So did they make it into orbit?
Was the rocket destroyed, or did it put its payload into orbit?
From Elon Musk:
"The things we were most concerned about were the first stage ignition and liftoff, the trajectory, the first stage because that goes through the most difficult portion of the atmosphere where you can have high winds and potentially go unstable or potentially have a structural problem and that went flawlessly. We had zero anomalies whatsoever on the first stage.
"Stage separation also went very well. Separation events are the No. 2 killer of rockets after engine issues. Both the stage separation and fairing separation went flawlessly. Second stage ignition also was perfect, and we achieved steady state burn on the second stage.
"We did encounter late in the second stage burn a roll-control anomaly, which you may have seen on the video webcast. We feel that is something that's pretty straight forward to address. So all in all we feel pretty good about this launch.
It doesn't sound like it was lost. Anyone have any extra information?
