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ouchthat is going to cost a bundle to repair |
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DrewCapuGiant Diehard join:2001-12-19 California |
Oops!"Oops!" has been brought to you by Erasers. Don't make a mistake without one.
Back to Square One. |
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I said that we were all clear for.....Lunch NOT Launch! Doh! |
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Ouch!!!Ouch...
"Rocket explodes" ____________-- Wildblue Pro Pack / Beam 40 / Laredo NOC / Windows MCE SP2 |
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2007-Jan-31 12:34 pm
Clone?Don't most companies great a clone Satellite just for this reason? It doesn't cost much more to make a second one. |
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Who pays for this?Is it the company who bought the sat, the company who launched (and destroyed) the sat, or are private launches like this insured? |
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hayabusa3303Over 200 mph Premium Member join:2005-06-29 Florence, SC |
not good.Boeing will find what happened.
Aleast its not as bad as when galaxy 4 went silent in 1998. Or when in 1999 when galaxy 10 was lost on take off.
I give boeing credit on this. Aleast it was out in the ocean and not at the cape or andrews air base where poeple could have been hurt or killed from it. |
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ronpinImagine Reality join:2002-12-06 Nirvana
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Watch here |
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Subaru1-3-2-4 Premium Member join:2001-05-31 Greenwich, CT |
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2007-Jan-31 12:41 pm
Glad someone got itI thought it got in the air when it blew I did not know it was still on the platform |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty Premium Member join:2002-05-02 Mount Airy, MD |
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2007-Jan-31 12:49 pm
Yikes!Oh the humanity? |
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Satellite internetSatellite broadband capacity has never been that great to begin with. I can understand using this capacity for the middle east and Africa. However Europe should know better. |
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said by ofacesig:Satellite broadband capacity has never been that great to begin with. I can understand using this capacity for the middle east and Africa. However Europe should know better. Some eastern parts of Europe are like africa and middle east in the way of being war torn and still re-building.. So those countries would benefit from sat inet. (since there is no alternative) |
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csula
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2007-Jan-31 1:15 pm
Sat BB is crap anyway.God has deemed that satellite broadband is shit, that's why this POS didn't make it off the pad. |
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captokita Premium Member join:2005-02-22 Calabash, NC |
dang.....Those "auto destruct" buttons look an awful lot like "LAUNCH" so it's easy to get the two confused. Houston........ we have a problem..... |
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trancient
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2007-Jan-31 1:48 pm
accident or sabotage?Me thinks our government wouldn't want those countries to have any more internet access than they really need. Or maybe none at all... Just a conspiracy thought. |
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Re: Who pays for this?Most of the time projects like this are heavily insured. |
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RetroMUFCCenter Forward join:2003-02-05 Bethel, NC |
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Re: accident or sabotage?You can hear the "oh no" in her voice
"go inertiaaaaaaaaal....." |
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DHRacerTech Monkey join:2000-10-10 Lake Arrowhead, CA |
I guess this means DTV future HD not jepordizedIf Christopher Lloyd is to be believed, at least this launch failure doesn't affect DTV's eventual* HD expansion.
I mean eventual with the least amount of sarcasm possible.
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hambone42Peace, through superior firepower Premium Member join:2002-02-02 Manassas, VA 1 edit |
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Re: I said that we were all clear for...said by JoeBubba:..Lunch NOT Launch! Doh! Obviously there were too many baritos on board. |
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intellerSociopaths always win. join:2003-12-08 Tulsa, OK |
Chinese: "All Your Broadband Are belong to Us!"Someone set us up the bomb! |
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captokita Premium Member join:2005-02-22 Calabash, NC |
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Re: accident or sabotage?said by RetroMUFC:You can hear the "oh no" in her voice "go inertiaaaaaaaaal....." LOL! I thought it said "Go in ocean" when I first heard it. |
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BuriedCaesar3It's Not Polite To Stare. join:2004-03-27 Richardson, TX 1 edit |
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Re: Glad someone got itLooked like it never even went "up" - everything seemed to go down into the fireball. Too bad the video cut off as soon as it did. Sure would like to see the rest of it.
The engines are supposed to be on the bottom of the rocket, right? |
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FicmanS Premium Member join:2005-01-11 Brownsburg, IN |
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Re: Chinese: "All Your Broadband Are belong to Us!"Somebody is pissed, I am guessing... |
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nixenRockin' the Boxen Premium Member join:2002-10-04 Alexandria, VA |
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Re: Who pays for this?said by Camelot One:Is it the company who bought the sat, the company who launched (and destroyed) the sat, or are private launches like this insured? Can't think of too many commercial launches that are uninsured. -tom |
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Re: Glad someone got itsaid by BuriedCaesar3:The engines are supposed to be on the bottom of the rocket, right? Yep |
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ropeguru Premium Member join:2001-01-25 Mechanicsville, VA |
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2007-Jan-31 3:20 pm
Hopefully...We will get a moment by moment play from drjim |
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Re: Who pays for this?said by Camelot One:Is it the company who bought the sat, the company who launched (and destroyed) the sat, or are private launches like this insured? Dunno but it could easily be Russian - the male voice was counting back in Russian...;) |
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come Premium Member join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ |
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2007-Jan-31 3:26 pm
IdiotsLaunching from an oil drigging rig. what brainiac thought of that? why not just launch from the roof of a dynamite factory? |
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2007-Jan-31 3:52 pm
said by dvd536:Launching from an oil drigging rig. what brainiac thought of that? why not just launch from the roof of a dynamite factory? You're joking, right? |
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That ex-drilling platform was modified then moved to the Pacific. It wasn't used for drilling out there. The Launch Platformor LPa former North Sea oil drilling platform, was refurbished at the Rosenberg Shipyard in Stavanger, Norway. The vessel is one of the largest semi-submersible, self-propelled vessels in the world at 436 feet long, about 220 wide, with an empty draft displacement of 30,000 tons, and a submerged draft displacement of 50,600 tons.
The Launch Platform provides accommodations for 68 crew and launch system personnelincluding living, dining, medical and recreation facilities. It is equipped with a large, environmentally controlled hangar for storage of the Sea Launch rocket during transit, and with mobile transporter/erector equipment that is used to roll out and erect the rocket in launch position prior to fueling and launch. Special facilities onboard enable the storage of rocket fuels (kerosene and liquid oxygen) sufficient for each mission. |
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