On 20/05/2012 11:56 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
Snidely wrote:

Followup comment:
"This is not a failure," Shotwell said. "We aborted with purpose.


I agree. It seems that launch aborts are not infrequent (except perhaps
for Soyuz which has had many decades of breaking-in). Even the Shuttle
had frequent launch aborts due to some small glitch.

It is good that they detected the glitch and aborted. Getting fireworks
like has happened to Arianne a few times is really bad PR.

'They' didn't detect it; the on-board safety system did that.