View Full Version : Cornwall prepares for UK's first orbital rocket launch: Failed 9/1/23
arista
09-01-2023, 02:58 PM
[There's a "bubbling of excitement"
in the team preparing for the
UK's first orbital rocket launch but they
are "laser sharp" as final checks are
carried out, says the mission's boss.
The Start Me Up mission sets
out from Spaceport Cornwall at Newquay Airport,
with the launch window now
starting around 10.16pm on Monday.]
https://news.sky.com/story/bubbling-of-excitement-as-cornwall-prepares-for-uks-first-orbital-rocket-launch-12782581
Old 747 plane takes the Rocket up high.
James
09-01-2023, 09:17 PM
Live coverage.
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arista
09-01-2023, 09:47 PM
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I think I saw this from my window in scotland.
It's all gone tits up now
They have encountered an anomaly
UserSince2005
10-01-2023, 12:19 AM
It failed lol
James
10-01-2023, 01:17 AM
That's disappointing, but rocketry is difficult science and engineering.
Did it crash?
I was hanging out my window and saw a rocket type thing come crashing out the sky downwards...didnt hear a bang ir anything so it must have been high up on a trajectory and very very bright....I would say north north east from my window looking north in the Scottish borders.
Couldnt have been this, my event happened at 18.06 precisely. I know that cause I wasnt tripping, and the event made me check my time incase it was needed.
I've forgotten what time it was so that ls not really an exact time. But its not far away.
arista
10-01-2023, 07:23 AM
That's disappointing, but rocketry is difficult science and engineering.
Yes not easy
in the Cross winds
[The crew behind a historic rocket launch
from UK soil have vowed to bounce back
after their highly anticipated space mission
ended in failure.
LauncherOne suffered an "anomaly" in its
bid to reach orbit on Monday night,
after being carried skyward from
Spaceport Cornwall by a converted jumbo
jet named Cosmic Girl.
There was raucous applause and cheering
among the 2,000 lucky ticketholders
in attendance in Newquay when the
former Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 took
off just after 10pm.]
https://news.sky.com/story/orbital-rocket-blasts-into-space-after-historic-launch-from-uk-soil-12783418
does that mean its payload was destroyed? If so, thats a lot of cash down the drain
arista
10-01-2023, 07:49 AM
does that mean its payload was destroyed? If so, thats a lot of cash down the drain
[The rocket ignited and appeared to be
ascending correctly. But word then came from
the company that the rocket had
suffered an "anomaly".]
Yes Millions of pounds
wasted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64218883
Oliver_W
10-01-2023, 07:52 AM
Surely even Cornwall isn't close enough to the equator to make a decent launch place?
arista
10-01-2023, 07:56 AM
Surely even Cornwall isn't close enough to the equator to make a decent launch place?
It's the Weather as well
Plus, you are Setting a Rocket off an old 747
never easy.
Has the Rocket gone in the Irish Sea?
They are Hiding the real reason - Typical.
arista
10-01-2023, 08:02 AM
Did it crash?
I was hanging out my window and saw a rocket type thing come crashing out the sky downwards...didnt hear a bang ir anything so it must have been high up on a trajectory and very very bright....I would say north north east from my window looking north in the Scottish borders.
The 747 Landed back fine
So all People safe
The Rocket with Expensive Satellites
has crashed into the sea, I assume.
arista
10-01-2023, 08:16 AM
BBC1 AM
Live in Cornwall.
Does not know if it went in the Sea
or burn't up?
The First part of the Rocket,
went off OK
the second part failed.
As they have not said.
It took alot to make sure no
Planes were in that zone at that time.
arista
10-01-2023, 12:32 PM
The CEO of Space Forge on BBCnewsHD
is trying to do another in 4 months.
He confirmed it crashed in the sea.
Polluting our ocean
Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture :joker:
Before
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1394D/production/_128250208_3090c4ad-0a28-4f3e-8bae-06bbf8623712.jpg.webp
After
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EB2D/production/_128250206_72b9a942-8e1b-4364-a7a0-b6a8368d1c9d.jpg.webp
Business Secretary Grant Shapps has denied doctoring a picture on his Twitter feed to remove former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Mr Shapps posted a picture of a ministerial visit to Spaceport Cornwall, as he hailed the first rocket launch from UK soil.
But social media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who also went on the trip in 2021, had disappeared from the picture.
Mr Shapps says he wasn't aware it had been edited and has now deleted it.
An identical photo remains on the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
arista
10-01-2023, 01:20 PM
Yes, Grant Deleted it now.
UserSince2005
10-01-2023, 01:40 PM
what an embarrassment
Oliver_W
10-01-2023, 02:12 PM
Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture :joker:
Before
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1394D/production/_128250208_3090c4ad-0a28-4f3e-8bae-06bbf8623712.jpg.webp
After
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EB2D/production/_128250206_72b9a942-8e1b-4364-a7a0-b6a8368d1c9d.jpg.webp
Business Secretary Grant Shapps has denied doctoring a picture on his Twitter feed to remove former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Mr Shapps posted a picture of a ministerial visit to Spaceport Cornwall, as he hailed the first rocket launch from UK soil.
But social media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who also went on the trip in 2021, had disappeared from the picture.
Mr Shapps says he wasn't aware it had been edited and has now deleted it.
An identical photo remains on the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974
https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTU3ODc4NjAzNTIxNzMwMjcx/image-placeholder-title.jpg
Crimson Dynamo
10-01-2023, 02:19 PM
How hard is to organise something like this to run successfully?
I mean its not rocket science is it?
https://content.invisioncic.com/Mrangmedia/emoticons/1222206481_emoji2.png
arista
10-01-2023, 02:23 PM
How hard is to organise something like this to run successfully?
I mean its not rocket science is it?
https://content.invisioncic.com/Mrangmedia/emoticons/1222206481_emoji2.png
Same problem
in USA
they had many fails, at the start
They spent 8 years working on it only for that to happen :skull:
Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space
Crimson Dynamo
10-01-2023, 02:37 PM
They spent 8 years working on it only for that to happen :skull:
Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space
well if you take Science only being a thing in the last 500 years and already we have send a craft beyond our solar system imagine what we will be doing in a 1000 years hence, or 5000
arista
10-01-2023, 02:40 PM
They spent 8 years working on it only for that to happen :skull:
Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space
They will try again.
Again halting all flights
well if you take Science only being a thing in the last 500 years and already we have send a craft beyond our solar system imagine what we will be doing in a 1000 years hence, or 5000
That's quite a long time away
If you were watching the Moon landings in the 60s I reckon you'd be a little bit disappointed to know that 60 years later we'd never achieved anything better than that in space
If you were watching the Moon landings in the 60s I reckon you'd be a little bit disappointed to know that 60 years later we'd never achieved anything better than that in space
i got up at something like 4am to watch it, i think i was about 10 years old or something, and that experience will never be beaten in terms of pure human achievement, live on the box
Oliver_W
10-01-2023, 05:03 PM
One of Kubrik's greatest.
i got up at something like 4am to watch it, i think i was about 10 years old or something, and that experience will never be beaten in terms of pure human achievement, live on the box
I was forced to watch it but I wasn’t that impressed .. I just obsessed about football at the time ( still do oddly)
:)
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They spent 8 years working on it only for that to happen :skull:
Really we are a million miles away from any meaningful foray into space
After watching 7 council workers trying to fix a pothole in the road this fiasco is no surprise
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James
13-01-2023, 10:58 PM
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