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Cubesat Launch Ends in Failure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 27, 2006 @04:12AM 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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I'm glad by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-27 05:00 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm overjoyed to see these worthless satellites (turds would be more of an appropriate term) get destroyed. The only way it could have been any better would be to have the retards that built them on the rocket as well.

Ha. Ha. You students have the IQ of wet shit. Miserable failures, the lot of you!