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NASA test rocket explodes

Started by Rick, Aug 29, 2008, 14:48:06

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A NASA rocket carrying two hypersonic experiments this morning exploded shortly after take-off from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the agency reports.

The Alliant Tech Systems ALV X-1 was carrying the HYBOLT experiment designed to "obtain unique high-speed flight data for fundamental boundary layer transition flow physics", plus the SOAREX payload which should have collected "data for atmospheric re-entry technology".

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/nasa_rocket_failure/

HYBOLT: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/hybolt.html