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Posted by kT on August 2, 2008, 11:40 pm
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Slight roll anomaly, looked like orangish flames from the engine.
And then it was gone. Damn. Space is hard.
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Posted by Jim Kingdon on August 3, 2008, 12:46 am
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> And then it was gone. Damn. Space is hard.
Yeah,
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1299
is repeating the same news but no details.
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Posted by kT on August 3, 2008, 12:52 am
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I HATE staging. It is the root of all evil.
I don't use that word very often.
Well, SRBs get me going too.
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Posted by Brian Gaff on August 3, 2008, 5:37 am
Please log in for more thread options Are you sure they did not buy the bolts holding the stages together from a
dodgy Russian vendor?
:-)
Brian
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Posted by Pat Flannery on August 3, 2008, 5:44 am
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> Are you sure they did not buy the bolts holding the stages together from a
> dodgy Russian vendor?
> :-)
That thought occurred to you also, I see.
They had one or more Proton launches recently where the stages didn't
separate either.
Pat
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