Range safety
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In rocketry, range safety or flight safety is ensured by monitoring the flight paths of missiles and launch vehicles, and enforcing strict guidelines for rocket construction and ground-based operation
The Delta 3914 rocket carrying the GOES-G satellite, launching from Cape Canaveral, was given the destruct command by the range 91 seconds after launch due to an electrical failure that shut one of the engines down.
Inspection of the flight termination system on Space Shuttle Discovery
Linear shaped charges mounted on a Falcon 9 rocket
An autonomous flight safety system developed by ATK
Launch escape system
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A launch escape system or launch abort system is a crew-safety system connected to a space capsule. It is used in the event of a critical emergency to quickly separate the capsule from its launch vehi
Diagram of Gemini's launch escape sequence
The escape system unintentionally blasted off from the Mercury spacecraft on the failed Mercury-Redstone 1 mission
The escape tower used by Shenzhou
A Dragon 2 undergoing a pad abort test on May 6, 2015, demonstrating a "pusher" LAS.