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Japanese Shuttle Crashes in Sweden

Posted by michael on from the lawn-dart dept.

spacecomputer writes "Japanese delta wing space shuttle crashes in Sweden field during high speed test. Another setback for the Hope-X program."

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  1. Re:Did anybody else read the headline... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The place where it crashed is inside a huge area in northern Sweden set off for rocket experiments. There are no sheep there, but probably quite a few reindeer. They launch rockets from this site (Esrange) many times a year, and they all fall back inside this area where the shuttle crashed (except for once or twice where a rocket missed and fell down over the border into Norway instead. But that area is pretty barren as well, not much chance of hitting anyone there either.)

  2. .8 mach is SLOW by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just for reference an ancient Boeing 707 can do .85 mach or better.