Update on this today.
The rocket was going of course. So they manually engaged the self destruct.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason...-explodes.html
Quote:
What we know so far is what everybody saw in the video," said Frank Culbertson, Orbital’s executive vice president. "The ascent stopped. There was some, let’s say, disassembly, of the first stage—it looked like—and it fell to Earth."
Culbertson said the failure was observed both visually and through vehicle telemetry, adding that the range safety officer sent a self-destruct command to the rocket before it hit the ground. However, it wasn’t clear if the vehicle exploded as a result of the destruct command or actual contact with the ground.
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