Posted on 01/10/2023 12:42:33 AM PST by blueplum
NEWQUAY, England, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Britain's attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit.
The "horizontal launch" mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England, with Virgin's LauncherOne rocket carried under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 called "Cosmic Girl"...
...Virgin Orbit had initially said on Twitter that LauncherOne had reached earth orbit, a tweet it later deleted.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Rocket Science is still tough?
Well, the GIF of Capt. Kirk yelling @ Kahn didn’t “preview” for me here, but, “ELONNNN!!!”
Anyone who would put their shiny new satellite on Branson’s rocket instead of Elon’s would have to have their head up their exhaust plume.
And now we know exactly what happened
Brace for impact
Well as long as the team had the requisite number of women and minorities I don’t see a problem here…
Skynet is still in orbit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
Pretty much sums up Europe..a complete disappointment.
Posting that link did not work for me either. Failure to launch in both cases. I think the indistinction in the headline refers to the launch from Europe, assuming you do not include former USSR republics to be part of Europe. Because of it’s high latitude Europe is disadvantaged for launch satellites into orbit.
There’s some glitch here on FR that does not include the closed parentheses “)” for some reason in the link. You’ll have to add it to the URL.
Thanks, good to know.
Russians launched from high latitudes and used a slant launch rather than initially vertical. I do not know if latitude has something to do with it.
Shouldn’t that have been Cosmic Person gender neutered speaking wise that is?
“ Anyone who would put their shiny new satellite on Branson’s rocket instead of Elon’s would have to have their head up their exhaust plume.”
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True dat. But I guess that national pride entered into the equation.
“LauncherOne” is kind of a wimpy name for a rocket. Shoulda gone with “Big Johnson”.
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