fnands
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.
fnands t1_j1318f0 wrote
Reply to comment by toodroot in ESA's Vega-C launcher has suffered a failure in its first commercial flight by kdiuro13
Such as? The only sat that's really close (that I'm aware of) is Worldview-3
fnands t1_j130fd1 wrote
Damn, and with two Pleiades Neo satellites on board.
That sucks a big fat one for commercial earth observation. The Neo's have such great sensors.
fnands t1_j13978c wrote
Reply to comment by silly_tilly in ESA's Vega-C launcher has suffered a failure in its first commercial flight by kdiuro13
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