Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly

Re:Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly by ceejayoz on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:31PM (#16242157)

SpaceX has lost two payloads, CRS-7 and Amos-6. Ariane's record still looks pretty good, even for SpaceX fans like myself.

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Re:Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly by cornholio on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:56PM (#16242361)

Ariane 5 had two failures and 3 partial failures, I'm only referring the the most recent streak of successes which Ariane just broke, and comparing with the same from SpaceX.

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Re:Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly by owenversteeg on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:27PM (#16242594)

For those curious: CRS-7 was a resupply mission for the ISS, had a bunch of miscellaneous cargo on it (a bunch of food, experiments, etc.) Nothing too important as far as I can tell. 99% American/European/Japanese supplies. And a single thing for the Russians: a wrench :)

Amos-6 was an Israeli communications satellite that would've provided satellite internet over Europe and Africa.

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Re:Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly by Bjartr on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:59PM (#16243922)

So what you're saying is that the failed mission had a wrench thrown into it by the Russians? :)

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Re:Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly by mabbo on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:18PM (#16242524)

Amos-6 was an interesting one only because it blew up in the ground days before launch. Ultimately, it was SpaceX's responsibility, but does it count as a "launch failure"?

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