Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff

Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by ars on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @06:50PM (#8524138)

Anyone know what the cargo was? Anything unique or expensive? Or just regular supplies?

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by MichaelAO on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @07:14PM (#8524305)

According to Motherboard:

- A pea growing experiment from students in Houston

- A human health study investigating blood flow to and from the brain in space

- 19 student projects from New Jersey

- A reentry breakup recorder

- A meteor dust analyser

- 1,360 pounds of food

- Spacewalk equipment

- Flight crew equipment

- Fight procedures books

- Computers

- Classified "Crypto equipment"

Source: https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/527235620578787328/ph...

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by kijin on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:43PM (#8524774)

The students from Houston and New Jersey must have been so disappointed. I really hope that they get another chance to send their projects to space before they graduate, and that some of them will eventually take up a career in rocket science despite this minor setback.

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by InclinedPlane on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:42PM (#8525003)

> - A reentry breakup recorder

Right, there was to be a video recording of the Cygnus spacecraft as it reentered and broke up (it's designed to disintegrate). Kind of ironic now.

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by Crito on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:09AM (#8525486)

I wonder if it could have survived the explosion. I suppose it would not have been activated for launch though.

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by ebildsten on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @07:39PM (#8524471)

Also 26 satellites from Planet Labs

https://www.planet.com/pulse/space-is-hard/

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by daeken on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @06:55PM (#8524166)

Nothing out of the ordinary for the ISS, as far as I know. However, it was carrying the Arkyd-3 test platform satellite, which is a bit of a bummer.

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