First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes after takeoff
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It did pitch.
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I mean, technically, Russia is in Europe.
Also, as the guys at NASA said back in the day, it takes a thousand failures to create one working rocket. Don't look at something halfway done and call it a failure.
Don't they do most of their launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan?
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Russia is like Turkey partial in europe. Whereas in Turkey its only part of Istanbul, Russia is up to the ural mountains.
Any pretty much everything east of Ural mountains was colonised by Russian slavs. The native indigenous peoples often do not consider themselves russian.
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Where did they launch from?
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Don't they do most of their launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan?
I'll edit my comment
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Yeah it’s pretty much a requirement for a new space company to crash their first rocket. At least that’s my default expectation. Space is crazy hard.
You make it sound like if it was rocket sci... huuuu... never mind.
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Where did they launch from?
From here :
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.The rocket lifted off from the pad at 12.30 p.m local time (11.30am BST) ...
... explosion just after its launch from from the Andøya spaceport in the Arctic.
... exploded less than a minute after takeoff from Norway on Sunday ...
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Yeah it’s pretty much a requirement for a new space company to crash their first rocket. At least that’s my default expectation. Space is crazy hard.
Did they forgot about the abort mission function?
That rocket went ballistic into the ground.Also, years of years of rockets (and missiles) development, and it's still so difficult.
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So what about Kazakhstan?
It has a small part in Europe, west of the Ural river. The vast majority of it is in Asia, and I would largely consider it an Asian country.
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Don't they do most of their launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan?
Yeah, but they do have Plesetsk in the European part of Russia. Only used for unmanned launches.
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Article said they said 30 seconds would be a success. Not clear how long it stayed up? Clock froze at +18 seconds.
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Russia is like Turkey partial in europe. Whereas in Turkey its only part of Istanbul, Russia is up to the ural mountains.
The actual Russian part is the European part, though.
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It crashed? Go read the telemetry and see what went wrong. Try again.
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