200 Foot Tall Rocket Explodes
By txmed • Feb 1st, 2007 • Category: UncategorizedBoeing’s commercial satellite launching service, Sea Launch, suffered a disaster yesterday (January 30th). A Zenit-3 rocket, with a Dutch satellite as payload, exploded on the launch pad. However, because the launch platform is at sea, no personnel were physically on it and no one was injured.
Impressive
They’re being mum on what happened. Here is there literally 5 line press release. I’m sure the media will hear more later.
H/T Reddit
txmed is a fourth year medical student with a strong interest in health care policy and politics. In addition to From Medskool, he writes for Medscape and helps run the popular medical blog carnival Grand Rounds.
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