I'm sorry, but it's you who is wrong. See my post below. The AC parent is talking about the rocket Rubicon-1, which did not explode in mid air. It's parachute malfunctioned during landing.
This is why the AC had a bit of a rant about Slashdot article vaugarities(sp?).
Again, check the link in my post below. It has the correct info, unlike the Slashdot article.
$20,000. Damn cheap. You're lucky to get a car for that much these days...I'd buy me a rocket instead any day! Although the running costs could be a bit high....
Your main point (and correction to the article is correct though - the rocket crashed during landing because the parachute malfunctioned. Lots of people will assume it exploded from the tone of the slashdot article. Which is not true - everything else seems to have been reasonably successful.
The images (which I really wanted to see) seem slashdotted pretty badly. Here's a link to a small one in another story.
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This is why the AC had a bit of a rant about Slashdot article vaugarities(sp?).
Again, check the link in my post below. It has the correct info, unlike the Slashdot article.
$20,000. Damn cheap. You're lucky to get a car for that much these days...I'd buy me a rocket instead any day! Although the running costs could be a bit high....
Your main point (and correction to the article is correct though - the rocket crashed during landing because the parachute malfunctioned. Lots of people will assume it exploded from the tone of the slashdot article. Which is not true - everything else seems to have been reasonably successful. The images (which I really wanted to see) seem slashdotted pretty badly. Here's a link to a small one in another story.