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Cubesat Launch Ends in Failure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the damn-shame dept.

Change writes "The CalPoly Cubesat group's launch yesterday has been a failure. It seems the first stage did not separate from the Dnepr rocket properly, and the vehicle crashed about 25km south of the launch site. More will be known when the debris is recovered and analyzed. A second launch is still in the works, but the loss of the 14 satellites from this launch is an unfortunate end to quite a lot of hard work of many engineering students."

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  1. "Cubesat" by HugePedlar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well there's your problem - everyone knows cubes aren't aerodynamic.

    Sorry.

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    Argh.
  2. Old Ballistic missile was used... by gasmonso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Makes you wonder how much of the aging Soviet and US nuclear missile arsenal actually works :) I have this picture of WWIII breaking out and both the US and Russia push the button only to be incinerated by their own missiles as they fall from the sky 20 yards from the launch site :)

    http://religiousfreaks.com/
  3. Cube Status Report by Sabaki · · Score: 3, Funny

    Timecube: above god
    Cubesat: below ground
    Spongebob's Pants: merely square

  4. Re:Cal Poly SLO by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't pick on the SLO kids or the short bus they rode in on...

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    "But this one goes to 11!"
  5. What a great ending for your thesis. by Born2bwire · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, they took the UIUC sat down with them. Those guys are just down the hall from me. Maybe I should leave them a fruit basket or something. Still, that's the best excuse I could imagine why you would not have your final data for your thesis. "After years of research, design, and testing, our experiment was posed to finally give us data when it blew up. It was the Russian's fault."