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Update: they found most of the crash debris in South Pacific
Saturday was a bad day for science, as a privately funded rocket carrying three $atellites was lost on its way to space, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire's effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery.
Falcon 1 is a two-stage, liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene powered launch vehicle, and the world's first new orbital rocket in more than a decade.
Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, said after the launch that although it was an obvious disappointment not to reach orbit, the flight of the first stage with the new Merlin 1C engine, which will be used in Falcon 9, was “picture perfect.”
It appears that a problem occurred during separation on Saturday, which caused the stages to be held together. The matter is still under investigation, and more details will be available as soon as the engineers realize what happened.
“The most important message I'd like to send right now is that SpaceX will not skip a beat in execution going forward,” said Musk, adding that flights four and five for Falcon 1 are almost ready, and that he's already given green light to begin fabrication of flight six. The Falcon 9 development is still on track.
Even with a failed launch, SpaceX said they have more than sufficient funding to continue launching Falcon 1 and develop Falcon 9 and Dragon. “For my part, I will never give up and I mean never,” said Musk.
The Falcon 1's mission is to deploy three separating satellites that will orbit at an inclination of 9 degrees: the Trailblazer satellite developed by SpaceDev, and two smaller NASA satellites. The three satellites attach to the Falcon 1 second stage via the Secondary Payload Adaptor and Separating System developed by ATSB, which is owned by the Government of Malaysia.
Space X is the winner of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition (COTS), and will contribute to help the American mission on the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle retirement in 2010.
Update: they found most of the crash debris in South Pacific
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Never mind the thousands of poor run-of-mill plebs that have had their bags lost at Terminal 5. Now it's happening to actual CELEBWITTIES!
80's pilferer Calvin Harris has lost seven months of work on his new album in baggage problems at Heathrow, when his laptop was lost.
And now it's being reported that Naomi Campbell has been arrested at Terminal 5, after assaulting a Police officer with her spit.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1311735,00.html
Oh, the humanity. Etc.Never mind the thousands of poor run-of-mill plebs that have had their bags lost at... more
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Kristin Fisher ran over 24 hours late to Manchester--it wasn't really her fault you see--it was on purpose. She was covering the Iowa caucus for her local Little rock ABC affiliate and she needed a tardy slip--so we granted permission.
The only problem--everyone, their mother and chuck norris were trying to get from Des Moines to Manchester and we couldnt get her a ticket out on short notice. So she rented a car, drove to omaha--got on a plane, flew to newark connected to Manchester where I was a little late rushing to pick her up. All this mind you on 3 hours sleep doing 2 packages to the Little Rockers back home..
YOU BE THE JUDGE--did I get credit for the aiport pickup? In the end, we're still waiting on the baggage...
Friday 1/4 - Tuesday 1/8
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Current TV: 366 (DirecTV)/ 107 (Comcast) / 196 (Dish)Kristin Fisher ran over 24 hours late to Manchester--it wasn't really her fault... more
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