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Uprated "10-ton" Ariane 5 Fails

Posted by chrisd on from the boom-boom-boom dept.

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."

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  1. Wow by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YASLF (Yet Another Space Launch Failure)

  2. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm delighted I could have the honor of posting the first comment to this important headline. If anyone deserves this distinction, I'm glad it was me. I earned it through hours of hard work and dedication. Perhaps you're wondering why I'm writing so much. I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"! Hah hah hah, losers!

    1. Re:First Post! by sebmol · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      only, it's not the first. sorry, pal

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      "Light is faster than sound." - "Is that why people tend to look bright until you hear them speak?"
    2. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      oh yea, good job. LOSER

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp...not fp

  4. Congratulations on your first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mad propz on the fp. love, the fp congratulator guy

  5. Is it just me... by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...or did anyone else think, based on the title of this story, that this was another cancelled North American release of an Anime title?

  6. Super Rocket? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It doesn't seem to be so super to me.

  7. Re:Why are we picking on thr Russians? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We are trying to get the "in Soviet Russia" posts out of everyone's system.

  8. I think I saw this on Jenny Jones... by Nathdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

  9. Re:I remember the last one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    could -> code
    reproducability -> reproducibility

  10. Re:Persistance by @l3X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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    System.out.println("coucou");
  11. Re:I suspect... by uncoveror · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Any theories on which aliens did this? Was it the ones who destroyed CONTOUR, or perhaps it was the Zhti Ti Kofft.

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    The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
  12. "pays for" are the operative words by mangu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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...

  13. Re:Why are we picking on thr Russians? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia you would be sent to the gulags for being so annoying!

  14. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The booster launches YOU!