Cornwall prepares for UK's first orbital rocket launch: Failed 9/1/23
 

[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-...aunch-12782581

Old 747 plane takes the Rocket up high.

Live coverage.

I think I saw this from my window in scotland.

It's all gone tits up now

They have encountered an anomaly

It failed lol

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.

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-r...-soil-12783418

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

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.

The 747 Landed back fine
So all People safe


The Rocket with Expensive Satellites
has crashed into the sea, I assume.

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.

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/cp...23712.jpg.webp

After

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...d1c9d.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

Yes, Grant Deleted it now.

what an embarrassment

How hard is to organise something like this to run successfully?

I mean its not rocket science is it?



https://content.invisioncic.com/Mran...481_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