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Title: Antares Explosion
Post by: Snowcrash on October 30, 2014, 19:02:48 PM

Oops.

Unmanned Antares rocket explodes seconds after take-off in Virginia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1CeHFeea0#ws)

No news yet on what went wrong but I hear it was an old mothballed rocket that had been refurbished. BABlog has a article here. (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/10/30/antares_explosion_we_will_continue.html)

Title: Re: Antares Explosion
Post by: Freddy on October 30, 2014, 19:46:42 PM

That's an expensive firework.

Title: Re: Antares Explosion
Post by: DaveMorton on October 31, 2014, 16:33:51 PM

I had read about this last night. How sad. One of the payloads on that rocket was the Arkyd 3 Space Telescope by Planetary Resources (that company had a kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arkydforeveryone/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0) that I had donated to), but they're planning to keep at it (http://www.geekwire.com/2014/planetary-resources-vows-press-ahead-rocket-explosion/). :)

Title: Re: Antares Explosion
Post by: Snowcrash on October 31, 2014, 17:05:21 PM

The problem with using dodgy Russian rocket engines.

Getting to space is still hard. Get one thing wrong and...

Title: Re: Antares Explosion
Post by: Snowcrash on November 08, 2014, 08:24:48 AM

Found this. No real new news but interesting.

Two Tragic Crashes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPCIHeCQQs#ws)

Datahopa

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