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Europe's Space Rider Destroyed in Drop Test - ESA Explains What Went Wrong [3:42]
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| October 22, 2026
| VideoFromSpace
Posted on 10/22/2026 5:57:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Géraldine Naja, ESA's Director of Space Transportation, discusses a failed drop test of Europe's Space Rider model, which resulted in the destruction of the vehicle. Despite the setback, ESA is still targeting the first orbital launch of Space Rider by the end of the decade. Europe's Space Rider Destroyed in Drop Test
- ESA Explains What Went Wrong | 3:42
VideoFromSpace | 2.17M subscribers | 5,968 views | October 22, 2026
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: esa; graldinenaja; spacerider; videofromspace
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posted on
10/22/2026 5:57:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
10/22/2026 5:57:49 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
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10/22/2026 6:00:42 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/22/2026 6:02:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Space_Rider
Space Rider is an uncrewed robotic laboratory about the size of two minivans. After launch on Vega-C it will stay in low orbit for about two months. Experiments inside its cargo bay will allow technology demonstration and benefit research in pharmaceutics, biomedicine, biology and physical science. At the end of its mission, Space Rider will return to Earth with its payloads and land on a runway to be unloaded and refurbished for another flight.
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posted on
10/22/2026 6:04:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
ESA..carrying on the muslim outreach of Barry Sotero.
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posted on
10/22/2026 6:25:19 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real..)
To: SunkenCiv
What do they say went wrong?
At the end of its mission, Space Rider will return to Earth with its payloads *and* land on a runway to be unloaded and refurbished for another flight.
The former, okay. The latter may be in question.
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posted on
10/22/2026 8:20:59 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Say it with me.....the UK is now UKistan. Short & to the point.)
To: SunkenCiv
Should not a test drop be rather routine? I wonder if they used a wind tunnel...
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posted on
10/22/2026 8:23:35 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Say it with me.....the UK is now UKistan. Short & to the point.)
To: SunkenCiv
ESA, 80’s technology today!
To: citizen
Apparently a parachute slows it down (went ok), then a parasail is deployed, but somehow it broke free...
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posted on
10/22/2026 8:57:10 PM PDT
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Paul R.
(Who else but Dolly Parton could go so far by being so genuine about being so fake?)
To: citizen
It was dropped from a helicopter at ~ 3 km altitude.
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10/22/2026 9:00:33 PM PDT
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Paul R.
(Who else but Dolly Parton could go so far by being so genuine about being so fake?)
To: Tijeras_Slim
80’s technology by 2030, they hope.
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10/23/2026 6:37:56 AM PDT
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pissant
((Deport them all))
To: SunkenCiv
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10/23/2026 6:42:49 AM PDT
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dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: BenLurkin
Are those rivets? 
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posted on
10/23/2026 6:43:55 AM PDT
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dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: dfwgator
Heh... I’m sure the ESA will have the problem figured out and this unmanned orbital whatever operational in about ten years. That’ll show us.
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10/23/2026 7:02:42 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger; MtnClimber
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10/23/2026 8:09:41 AM PDT
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Robert A Cook PE
(Do the racist Islamics use their Communists as dupes? Or do the racist Communists use the Islamics?)
To: Robert A Cook PE
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10/23/2026 8:13:30 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Robert A Cook PE
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10/23/2026 8:14:11 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Robert A Cook PE
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10/23/2026 8:15:52 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Robert A Cook PE
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10/23/2026 8:17:06 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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