Europe's super rocket explodes
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Not yet
With the Russian's expensive recent failure, & Europe's problems, looks like the U.S. launches will stay booked up for some time...
With the Russian's expensive recent failure, & Europe's problems, looks like the U.S. launches will stay booked up for some time...
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Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Bummer...
Linky
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket has failed on its maiden flight.
The Ariane 5-ESCA blasted off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 1921 local time (2221 GMT) and exploded over the Atlantic three minutes later.
Grasshopper
Uhh ........Hey fellas we stole all your rocket scientists (verner von braun ring a bell?) give it up and use NASA. It will be cheaper in the long run.
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Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Bummer...
Linky
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket has failed on its maiden flight.
The Ariane 5-ESCA blasted off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 1921 local time (2221 GMT) and exploded over the Atlantic three minutes later.
Grasshopper
Uhh ........Hey fellas we stole all your rocket scientists (verner von braun ring a bell?) give it up and use NASA. It will be cheaper in the long run.
We may have stolen them after WWII, but modern rocketry itself was invented by an American (Robert Goddard) whose work the Nazis used extensively.
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Well, not to rain on your parade, but Robert Goddard (1882 - 1845) came AFTER the Russian Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857 - 1935) and in parallel with the Romanian-German Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) (who taught Wernher von Braun).
It would also be useful to note that the Soviet (Russian) Energyia boosters are still extremely useful for high payloads, (they hold the record) and that the previous Ariane rockets were the bread and butter of all European probes, and were bought by Japan as well...
One explosion does not mean that the rocket is a failure... think of Challenger...
My father worked in France at CNES (Centre National des Etudes Spatiaux - National Centre for Space Studies) and was very impressed with what he saw - he said it rivals the best American installations. Considering that he is among the most respected European specialists in GPS, teledetection and spatial projections, I belive him... and the European Space Agency remains one of the big players in my book.
It would also be useful to note that the Soviet (Russian) Energyia boosters are still extremely useful for high payloads, (they hold the record) and that the previous Ariane rockets were the bread and butter of all European probes, and were bought by Japan as well...
One explosion does not mean that the rocket is a failure... think of Challenger...
My father worked in France at CNES (Centre National des Etudes Spatiaux - National Centre for Space Studies) and was very impressed with what he saw - he said it rivals the best American installations. Considering that he is among the most respected European specialists in GPS, teledetection and spatial projections, I belive him... and the European Space Agency remains one of the big players in my book.
???
*smacks ChrisIsBored*
Only the US Space Shuttle and Russian Soyouz carry people, you know that...
Grasshopper
Whew! Thank God I read all the way to the end of this thread before replying as *I* was gonna ask that same exact question...
Go to sleep, you've been up too long.
If Europe was preparing to put men into space, you'd know about it...
Grasshopper
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