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Well.

F.

But I hope they won't be put off by the failure. Not like we haven't seen failures from SpaceX or Roscosmos. I wish them luck for the next launch.
 
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I just caught up on this. It is hugely disappointing and embarrassing for them and the "UK space industry" if we can call it that. Hopefully they can recover from this. Hopefully the satellites weren't destroyed.
 
Where DARTA?
 
Still a lack of information on precisely what went wrong, although it's not the first time they've lost a rocket and sadly failure is part of the game with new rockets. Just look at how many of the things other organisations have crashed / lost on the way to some success. Hence, why they only put relatively cheap to insure and build satellites on this one.

But at the same time, they have shown this can work, although they'll need to get past this sort of failure rate in order to be commercially viable.
 
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I just caught up on this. It is hugely disappointing and embarrassing for them and the "UK space industry" if we can call it that. Hopefully they can recover from this. Hopefully the satellites weren't destroyed.
It would probably be a miracle if the payload weren't destroyed as whatever trajectory they ended up on probably wasn't a planned one.
 
Beginning to look like a second stage engine failure. It lit, but it never reached the speed/altitude it should have. Virgin seem to be keeping very tight lipped about it though, seems odd they won't say and unlikely they don't know.
 
I suspect the reason for that silence is because of the phase they were in, which is one where it's quite difficult to get a lot of data back, and you've only got limited visuals of the rocket itself. You could say it failed at a super awkward phase for analysis. So I suspect the reason for the lack of information is that they don't have much to go off, yet.
 
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