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by False » Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:38 pm

They havent proved anything with that yet.

They are basically trying to secure funds for the next ten years of research so they dont have to take the financial strain of a failure on their own.

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by 1cmanny1 » Fri Oct 31, 2014 8:45 pm

Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during test flight

A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has crashed during a test flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

SpaceShipTwo craft exploded over the Mojave Desert, a witness said. US police confirmed one fatality.

Branson said via Twitter that he was on his way to Mojave following the crash.
CRASH SITE: Parts of the ship were spotted in the Mojave desert, as shown on CNN.

CRASH SITE: Parts of the ship were spotted in the Mojave desert, as shown on CNN.
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"Thoughts with all @virgingalactic & Scaled, thanks for all your messages of support. I'm flying to Mojave immediately to be with the team."

Photographer Ken Brown said the space tourism craft was released from the plane that carries it to high altitude, ignited its rocket motor and then exploded.

There was wreckage in the desert north of Mojave Air and Space Port, he said.

Two pilots were aboard the spaceship, which was undergoing its first powered test flight since January. The California Highway Patrol said there was one fatality and one major injury.

More than 800 people have paid or put down deposits to fly aboard the spaceship, which is carried to an altitude of about 45,000 feet and released. The spaceship then fires its rocket motor to catapult it to about 100 kilometres high, giving passengers a view of the planet set against the blackness of space and a few minutes of weightlessness.

The spaceship is based on a prototype, called SpaceShipOne, which 10 years ago won the US$10 million (NZ$12.8 million) Ansari X Prize for the first privately developed manned spacecraft to fly in space.

The test was to be the spaceship's first powered test flight since January. In May, Virgin Galactic and spaceship developer Scaled Composites, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp, switched to an alternative plastic-type of fuel grain for the hybrid rocket motor.

The accident is the second this week by a US space company. On Tuesday, an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded 15 seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, destroying a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.


I hope this doesn't make them give up.

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by Dowbocop » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:14 pm

It's been a very bad week for space exploration all told :(

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by 1cmanny1 » Sat Nov 01, 2014 3:38 am

Strange that both of them seem to have exploded shortly after ignition.

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by Xeno » Sat Nov 01, 2014 4:30 am

Not really, I'm surprised we have so few issues like this. Rocket engines are pretty complex items.

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by FlippinChicken » Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:01 pm

Pretty sure the SpaceX rocket was intentionally detonated once it launched? The team knew that it wasn't going to successfully make orbit, so protocol is to detonate it asap so it doesn't come down on a residential area.

But yeah, sad times this week :cry:

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by Meep » Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:51 pm

[iup=3604314]Xeno[/iup] wrote:Not really, I'm surprised we have so few issues like this. Rocket engines are pretty complex items.

I suppose so. Still, it's not exactly brain surgery.

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:29 pm

Jupiter, shepherding the asteroid belt, preventing the accretion of a new planet and/or the bombardment of the inner solar system.


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by Skarjo » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:34 pm

Jupiter is such a dick.

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by Fatal Exception » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:39 pm

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by Skarjo » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:26 pm

If you're so gay for Jupiter then tell that to the dinosaurs, commie.

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by False » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:27 pm

What about Chelyabinsk?

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by Ironhide » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:27 pm

[iup=3607884]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:Jupiter, shepherding the asteroid belt, preventing the accretion of a new planet and/or the bombardment of the inner solar system.


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Never realised just how off center Mars' orbit was.

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by Alvin Flummux » Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:28 am

[iup=3608070]Falsey[/iup] wrote:What about Chelyabinsk?


Kept the region's glass makers and window shops/fitters in business for years to come.

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by Qikz » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:41 am

[iup=3608066]Skarjo[/iup] wrote:If you're so gay for Jupiter then tell that to the dinosaurs, commie.


Odd question, but is it possible that if the asteroid belt was infact caused by a planet that was destroyed that it wasn't destroyed at the time the cataclysmic event killed all or most of life on earth at the time? I've always heard that it's a possibility that the belt was caused by a planet that was blown up but I'm not sure if that's right or not and I guess it's something we'll probably never be able to fully understand when or why that happened if it was the case.

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by Fatal Exception » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:52 am

The belt is made of protoplanet rubbish - The dust and rocks which form the planets before they are planets. Jupiter is so massive that the gravity prevented it (the belt) from forming into an actual planet.

The exploding planet theory has been explored, but has fallen from favour due to it being next to impossible.

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by Qikz » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:05 am

[iup=3608393]Fatal Exception[/iup] wrote:The belt is made of protoplanet rubbish - The dust and rocks which form the planets before they are planets. Jupiter is so massive that the gravity prevented it (the belt) from forming into an actual planet.

The exploding planet theory has been explored, but has fallen from favour due to it being next to impossible.


Ah, change of question then. Is it possible that that planet and therefore asteroid belt formed after the cataclysmic event on earth? :p

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by Moggy » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:31 am

[iup=3608406]Qikz[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3608393]Fatal Exception[/iup] wrote:The belt is made of protoplanet rubbish - The dust and rocks which form the planets before they are planets. Jupiter is so massive that the gravity prevented it (the belt) from forming into an actual planet.

The exploding planet theory has been explored, but has fallen from favour due to it being next to impossible.


Ah, change of question then. Is it possible that that planet and therefore asteroid belt formed after the cataclysmic event on earth? :p


What if it was a planet of dinosaurs and they got so big that the planet collapsed?

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by Qikz » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:24 pm


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by Victor Mildew » Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:25 pm

[iup=3608788]Qikz[/iup] wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11214511/Ghosts-created-by-scientists-in-disturbing-lab-experiment.html

This is really cool.


Good read that, cheers!

Also, ghosts in not being real shocker :lol:

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