[extropy-chat] Sea boom

[Technotranscendence]

On Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:23 AM Anders Sandberg asa at nada.kth.se
wrote:
> "The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle, carrying the NSS-8 satellite,
> experienced an anomaly today during launch operations." as stated on
> http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/
>
> The anomaly was of the explosive kind, unfortunately:
>
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=eMG2SBwIcrM&eurl=http%3A//www.e24.se/dynamiskt/klacksparkar/did_14533588.asp&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static3.sjl.youtube.com/vi/eMG2SBwIcrM/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskLcQYWlDCcNpLn1Q6HKkWpu
>
> Perhaps not a major setback, but sad. However, the explosion is neat.

Yes, sad and neat to see.  In a way, it's good it happened now and not,
say, several years ago.  They've already got quite a few successful
launches under their belt, so it's a proven model.  However, whether
they'll continue is another matter.  I'm not sure how damaged the launch
platform is and that might be the deciding factor.  (Of course, it all
depends on how much profit they can make off launches.  This might drive
up their [self?] insurance costs considerably.)

Regards,

Dan