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On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC (11:39:13 a.m. EST, local time at the launch site).
The Soyuz 1 crash site coordinates are , 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) west of Karabutak, Province of Orenburg in the Russian Federation, about 275 kilometers (171 mi; 148 nmi) east-southeast of Orenburg In a small park on the side of the road is a memorial monument: a black column with a bust of Komarov at the top.
Intelsat 708 was a telecommunications satellite built by the American company Space Systems/Loral for Intelsat.It was destroyed on 15 February 1996 when the Long March 3B launch vehicle failed while being launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China.
The video was filmed by a camera that South Korea's Yonsei University uses for watching meteors. Analysts said it showed the Chollima-1 rocket crossing the sky, and a stage separating.
A Chinese rocket has crashed after being accidentally launched during a ground test, the company Space Pioneer has said in a statement. Chinese rocket crashes after accidental launch during ground ...
He warned on Friday that the sounds, debris and fires caused by a rocket crash could all pose risks to wildlife in the area. In a statement, published last week, ABC said it was “deeply ...
A rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo took place on April 29, 2013, with an engine burn of 16 seconds duration. The brief flight began at an altitude of 47,000 feet (14,000 m), and reached a maximum altitude of 55,000 feet (17,000 m) and a speed of Mach 1.2 (920 mph or 1,480 km/h).
Spaceflight Now – Cluster II – Ariane 501 explodes at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 March 2015), direct link to video file — Footage of the final seconds of the rocket flight. Wired – History's Worst Software Bugs — An article about the top 10 software bugs. The Ariane 5 Flight 501 software glitch is mentioned as one of these bugs.