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Sea Launch explodes - Elon Musk smiles smugly, strokes cat

03-02-2013 11:05pm

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/02/sea_launch_intelsat_failure/

The troubled rocketeers at Sea Launch have had another setback with the failure of its latest launch after just 40 seconds of flight, leading to the destruction of both the delivery vehicle and its expensive satellite payload.

"We are very disappointed with the outcome of the launch and offer our sincere regrets to our customer, Intelsat, and their spacecraft provider, Boeing," said Kjell Karlsen, president of Sea Launch in a statement of the obvious.

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#2 04-02-2013 9:13pm

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TBF everyone in the launch business will lose a rocket every now and then

Musk lost a few at the start, and they lost an engine on the last falcon 9 launch

so the next two flights are very important for Musk, I doubt he has time to stroke his cat right now

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