Tuesday, August 01, 2006
For five years students at Montana State University worked mounting a satellite to monitor weather in outer space. If successful, it might have saved the lives of tomorrow's astronauts. Instead, an old Russian-built missile brought those dreams deafening down to Earth.
On Wednesday a Dnper rocket laden with 18 satellites took off from Kazakhstan. After 13 minutes the team at ground control was still awaiting a signal from the rocket. Two hours later news of the rocket’s colliding was reported.
"In the 86th second of the flight, an emergency engine shutdown has occurred on board the Dnepr carrier rocket," a spokesman said.
"The failure of the Dnepr rocket launch, with the loss of Montana's first satellite, MEROPE, is bad news, but rocket launches remain a tricky business," said Hiscock. "We have accomplished 95 percent of the satellite's mission by just getting it to the launch pad; the educational experience for the MSU students designing and building the satellite is not diminished by the failure of the launch vehicle."
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