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Uprated "10-ton" Ariane 5 Fails
Soft writes "The latest version of the European Ariane 5 booster ("ESC-A") has failed on its first launch. Liftoff was good up to booster separation but the core stage shut down one minute afterwards or so. The rocket was supposed to lift ten metric tons (22,000 lb) to geostationary transfer orbit, versus 6.7 for the previous Ariane 5G (and 5 and 5.3 for the latest Atlas 5 and Delta 4). Arianespace planned to retire its other launchers (Ariane 4, Ariane 5G) in favor of Ariane 5 ESC-A. Next launch, of space probe Rosetta, was due in mid-January."
...or did anyone else think, based on the title of this story, that this was another cancelled North American release of an Anime title?
It doesn't seem to be so super to me.
We are trying to get the "in Soviet Russia" posts out of everyone's system.
Okay, so the 10 ton aryan guy was the one who was, like, secretly having an affair with his father's gay lover right?
I mean I didn't look at the article or anything but I assume we're talking about the same thing right?
yeh, wait, YOU were the Anonymous Coward...
As a tech I laugh, as a frog I cry, but it should be the other way around...
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Any theories on which aliens did this? Was it the ones who destroyed CONTOUR, or perhaps it was the Zhti Ti Kofft.
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
As you said, NASA pays and manages the programs. That's socialism in its truest sense. Of course, there's an "idealist" form of socialism, where the government takes from the rich and gives to the poor. And there's the "American" sort of socialism, where the government takes from the taxpayers and gives to the corporations...