Contact
Advertise
About Us
 
Home
News
Features
Music
Film
Art
Literary
Food
Stage
Outside
All Stories
Curiosities
Gallery
Calendar
  Home arrow News arrow News from Space arrow burn & crash

 
burn & crash | Print |  E-mail
Written by staff   
Wednesday, 11 August 2004

>burn & crash

The Rubicon One, a rocket designed and built by Space Transport Corp. to compete for the X Prize, exploded shortly after takeoff on Aug. 9 and then fell into a nearby river when the parachute failed. No one was hurt by the unmanned rocket.

Although the rocket exploded just above the launchpad, it only cost $20,000 to build, which is less than most cars.

Space Transport Corp. consists primarily of Phillip Storm and Eric Meier of Washington state.

 

>horserace

After unveiling their rocket on Aug. 5, the Canadian da Vinci Project announced that they will make their own attempt for the X Prize on Oct. 2, just three days after SpaceShipOne is scheduled to begin its try for the prize.

The da Vinci Project's rocket is sponsored by Golden Palace.Com, the world's largest online casino.

 

>hot

NASA's Messenger spacecraft launched Aug. 3 to explore the planet Mercury, the first spacecraft since Mariner 10 to do so. Messenger is not scheduled to reach Mercury until 2011.

 

>blind eye

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's four main instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, has failed.

NASA engineers are trying to determine if there is a way to fix the problem, but since there are no maintenance or repair flights scheduled to the HST and the current plan is to let the telescope fall apart in space while Bush sends men to Mars, that seems unlikely.

 
< Prev   Next >
dig, dug

After a rough start, the Phoenix Mars Lander is successfully analyzing dirt samples dug up from...

clumping

While the robot arm on the Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered dirt to the lander, at...

scoops and dumps

On June 2, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of...

greetings from the Martian arctic

On May 25, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the Martian arctic in...

now with a pulsating carbon surface

Hidden right in the familiar Big Dipper, astronomers have discovered a new type of white dwarf...

ATV in space enounters rough patch

No, not an All Terrain Vehicle—an Automated Transfer Vehicle, which was launched by the...

and in this corner; taken too literally

and in this corner

Iran has launched a rocket into space from its own space center...

bright comet

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which...

extrasolar system

Astronomers have discovered a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system,...

the goddess who flew to the moon

On Monday, Nov. 5, China’s Chang’e 1 satellite successfully entered lunar orbit, only...

walking; now with more black holes

walking

Space Shuttle astronauts recently completed installing a new solar power...

massive darkness

news from space

we’ll take two
The National Security Space Office has issued a...

the dark side of Iapetus

the dark side of Iapetus

“The side of Iapetus that faces forward in its...

burst; ion power

burst

A recently detected burst of radio waves has stumped scientists, who have...

hollow Mars

NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the...

the Victoria era; the inconvenient polar ice

the Victoria era NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has descended into...

crashing in Kazakhstan

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned after...

aqua vitae

aqua vitae

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, while observing a young solar...

galactic dominion

As if detailed satellite maps of the Earth weren’t enough, or a virtual globe that you can...

Music
Film
Boing Boing

NY Times: The Los Angeles of Ry Cooder and Mister Jalopy

Near The Burgess Shale

Homes with Tails: Homeowners providing their own fiber

   
 
© 2008 The Wire

Piscataqua
Loco Coco's
RiverRun 125 x 60