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Slaughtermeyer June 22nd, 2005 07:15 AM
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The BBC is reporting now that there probably was a malfunction during launch and the craft is lost.

Randallw June 22nd, 2005 07:23 AM
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MSNBC seems to say it appears to be in a different orbit and it will take days to find it. Personally I think it's half way to Alpha Centauri http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Iron Giant June 22nd, 2005 09:18 AM
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Randallw said:
MSNBC seems to say it appears to be in a different orbit and it will take days to find it. Personally I think it's half way to Alpha Centauri http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif
Well our grandchildrens grandchildren will have to deal with an interstellar incident then. Whoops. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Randallw June 22nd, 2005 09:22 AM
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Not if they think we have discovered the secret of solar sails travelling at lightspeed. Soon their sail fleet will arrive http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Ragnarok-X June 22nd, 2005 12:13 PM
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Its lost http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

narf poit chez BOOM June 22nd, 2005 01:56 PM
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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

geoschmo June 22nd, 2005 02:16 PM
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There was a problem on launch, but it's unclear exactly what heppened at this point. There are conflicting reports and it's possible the craft may have made it to orbit, although not the correct orbit.

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Quoted from the planetary society blog: http://planetary.org/solarsailblog/index_05.html

Jun 22, 2005 | 07:49 PDT | 14:49 UTC

What this means is that we are still dealing with a very wide range of possibilities for what could have happened yesterday, made even wider by the fact that it kind of sounds like some of the information that we have is contradictory. If the launch vehicle failed, how did we detect signals at Majuro and Panska Ves? On the other side, if the launch vehicle had a problem but still managed to put the spacecraft into some orbit, why didn't Strat Comm see it last night? We don't know what to make of it. We hope to get more information from Lou in an hour or two. Stand by for that.

cshank2 June 22nd, 2005 02:22 PM
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Wow, according to the news, the thing didn't even leave our atmosphere. GG Russian Engineering. GG.

geoschmo June 22nd, 2005 02:31 PM
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Wow, according to the news, the thing didn't even leave our atmosphere. GG Russian Engineering. GG.
It's still possible that it didn't leave the atmosphere at all and the signals they got last night were from some other satellite. We should have some kind of confirmation one way or the other today.

cshank2 June 22nd, 2005 03:02 PM
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Well, here's hoping for the best.

(I just got done watching something on the Science Channel about Spaceship 1. Very Impressive, now where's my DUC?)


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