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By MORGAN WHITAKER New video has emerged of the impressive sights and sounds spectators experienced as they watched Tuesday evening's disastrous launch of a NASA contractor's unmanned Antares rocket.
The explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, taken from the TV-3 camera. At T+72.284, the right SRB pulled away from the aft strut that attached it to the ET, causing lateral acceleration that was felt by the crew. At the same time, pressure in the LH2 tank began dropping. Pilot Mike Smith said "Uh-oh," which was the last crew comment recorded.
The sound of a sonic boom depends largely on the distance between the observer and the aircraft shape producing the sonic boom. A sonic boom is usually heard as a deep double "boom" as the aircraft is usually some distance away. The sound is much like that of mortar bombs, commonly used in firework displays. It is a common misconception that ...
On 30 January 2007, a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL space rocket exploded on takeoff. The explosion consumed the roughly 400,000 kg (400 t) of kerosene and liquid oxygen aboard. This rocket was launched from an uncrewed ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so there were no casualties; the launch platform was damaged and the NSS-8 satellite was ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -One of the stages of North Korea's satellite launch rocket exploded after separation on Tuesday, video captured by an South Korean astronomy observatory showed, in what some ...
Starship launch live: Rocket disappears as it reaches max altitude. 13:21, Anthony Cuthbertson. SpaceX says the upper stage appears to have also experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly, so we ...
The Thor missile exploded on its launchpad, scattering highly contaminated debris all over the island. Service personnel were heavily exposed to radiation both during the explosion and in subsequent emergency clean-up efforts. Veterans who were exposed to the high radiological hazards all suffered lethal long-term effects of radiation-based ...
M-100 (rocket) MMR06; MR-12; MR-20 This page was last edited on 3 January 2014, at 11:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...