It's a long long fall ...
Posted on 07/09/2024 3:24:38 PM PDT by Morgana
Ariane 6 has suffered an Anomaly in orbit, and is currently stuck in orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
African American even. Great diversity announcement....
The rule against starting sentences with prepositions is often attributed to 18th and 19th-century grammarians who tried to apply Latin grammar rules to English. Modern linguists generally reject this as an unnecessary and artificial constraint.
--perplexity
Well known example:
"With great power comes great responsibility.""
Here they are;
David Bowie – Space Oddity 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0A0XcWy88
A computer failure? They must not believe in backup systems.
Good thing that engineers in the 1970’s could do much smarter things with much less technology. The voyagers are still kicking. In those days Boeing’s were not commanded by computer to dive into the ground.
some where over the pacific i believe, not sure when
the problem was ESA used an APU to restart their 2nd stage engine. and the APU started then stopped.
but it was a great launch and got into orbit.
It's a long long fall ...
As long as SpaceX sticks to orbital launches, its great. Moon and Mars no so much.
Like Elon says, “Space is Hard”.
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