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Offline Nilsen

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Anyone radio amateurs here?
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2006, 05:36:22 AM »
A total of 13 sats were lost... many of them from America. it was the second stage that did not ignite and it crashed.


They are going to build 4 more nCube sats over the next five years so they are not giving up! :)  They will continue to use the same rockets because they are by far the cheapest ride. 10-15 % of all launches world-wide are failiures and suprisingly the russian launches have prooven to be the most reliable. I guess "simple" is sometimes best. I thought the Ariane rockets were the safetst...
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Offline Excel1

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Anyone radio amateurs here?
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2006, 05:47:14 AM »
Your probably right about the shuttle not having the right orbit Nilsen, I didn't think about that. I guess that getting the shuttle to alter it's mission to launch sattalites would have been too exspensive for such a project.

It's great that they are not throwing in the towel though. Good luck to them for next time.
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