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fnands t1_j1344g1 wrote

Reply to comment by silly_tilly in ESA's Vega-C launcher has suffered a failure in its first commercial flight by kdiuro13

Not sure if they made it high enough to burn on re-entry, but they are dead anyway. Probably deep under water and in a thousand pieces.

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silly_tilly t1_j134xo1 wrote

Well, that's sad and expensive.

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fnands t1_j13978c wrote

Very expensive. I hope they were insured.

They have been waiting on launch since May, so this is a huge setback. I mean, luckily there are already 2 in orbit, but planned constellation size is 4.

I wonder if they will replace or just move on to the next thing

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Layer_4_Solutions t1_j14etd4 wrote

> Very expensive. I hope they were insured.

Doubt it. Governments generally self-insure.

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mangalore-x_x t1_j16bize wrote

They are also the ones wanting space industry so particularly here it is a wash Because France wants arianespace to continue and finances both.

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