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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. Not that bad by womprat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't sound like that much of a setback. It was unmanned, crashed in a field because only one of three parachutes opened.
    And this quote: "From a scientific perspective, it was a success because we collected the data we were looking for."