WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport are set to support the launch of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket at 6:45 p.m. EDT, October 27.
The Antares rocket will carry Orbital’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, loaded with some 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments, to the International Space Station.
AndesSMF wrote:The rocket got all blowed up, live video from NASA. Interesting perspective that we don't often see.
CO777ER wrote:{bugeye}
Now what of the supplies to the ISS???
Click Click D'oh wrote:So, I guess I never noticed it until reading about this accident... but these rockets use 40 year old Soviet era NK-33 motors? Not saying, "WELL DUH IT BLEW UP!"... but... um..
ANCFlyer wrote:Click Click D'oh wrote:So, I guess I never noticed it until reading about this accident... but these rockets use 40 year old Soviet era NK-33 motors? Not saying, "WELL DUH IT BLEW UP!"... but... um..
I just heard that on the news this morning. . . .
Exactly . . . Soviet era made rocket motors? Really?
Morons.
bhmbaglock wrote:It will be interesting to see if NASA asks SpaceX to accelerate their launch schedule.
Queso wrote:Well, it's not like all the economical sources of heavy-lift liquid propellant space-capable engines have not dried up in the US these days, right?
Click Click D'oh wrote:So, I guess I never noticed it until reading about this accident... but these rockets use 40 year old Soviet era NK-33 motors? Not saying, "WELL DUH IT BLEW UP!"... but... um..
ShanwickOceanic wrote:Admittedly I don't know how much got vaporised, but I'm actually amazed at how much is still there... especially after seeing that video from the Cessna.