Cosmic Girl Cornwall launch #1

[mapperuo]

Odd that the flight altitude has disappeared from the live link and youtube promotion.

Can track it here: Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24

 

[Channel Hopper]

Can track it here: Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24

Yes, watching that.
The drop time is still highlighted in both feeds and the youtube link, as though the plane's altitude doesn't really matter.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Perhaps there is some excess wind blowing about up there

 

[Channel Hopper]

That's all folks!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Microphones still live - ooer.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Bugger

 

[Channel Hopper]

Double bugger.

Lost

 

[Manikm909]

FAIL
So what happens to the rocket and the satellites ....where do they end up?

 

[scopus]

FAIL
So what happens to the rocket and the satellites ....where do they end up?

According to news reports the satellites are lost, and are not sure if the rocket fell back to earth..

 

[Channel Hopper]

If the payload is still attached to the final stage rocket then mission control has the option of igniting the remaining fuel one last time to send everything into a safe trajectory or down to earth.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Or it might look like this

Videos show meteor flying over homes across the UK and burning up in the sky

The huge fireball was seen across the UK and was described as containing multiple different colours.

metro.co.uk

 

[cokeaddict]

The coverage was a joke.

I watched it from when the stream went live on youtube at around 21:15 (later than it was intended too).

Anyway at one point it showed the rocket at around 600,000ft then you could see it dropping and dropping and then it remained around 244,000ft for the rest of the coverage.

So did it even really make it into orbit, or did it just fall back to earth (bottom of the ocean) ?

 

[hvdh]

Swimming with the fishes near the Canaries

 

[mapperuo]

The coverage was a joke.

I watched it from when the stream went live on youtube at around 21:15 (later than it was intended too).

Anyway at one point it showed the rocket at around 600,000ft then you could see it dropping and dropping and then it remained around 244,000ft for the rest of the coverage.

So did it even really make it into orbit, or did it just fall back to earth (bottom of the ocean) ?

Pretty much. It looks like a fuel leak to me, the Liquid Oxygen was being depleted way faster than the fuel.

 

[Channel Hopper]

All about the money

Virgin Orbit Slumps 22% After Rocket Fails to Reach Orbit​

 

[ozumo]

This is what happens when you reject assistance from Clippy

 

[Analoguesat]

I have to agree with cokeaddict. The coverage was dreadful. Probably one of the worst Ive ever seen. It was quite obvious something was up when the speed went to zero & the altitude froze at 244000ft after a steep descent. Which was about 20 minutes before the mission failure announcement Even allowing for breaks in the telemetry as it went in & out of range of ground stations it should have changed after a few minutes.

It made it into space but it wont have made it into orbit - Im pretty certain the final analysis will say the satellites crashed into the Atlantic.

 

[Terryl]

The big question is "Would a parachute work in outer space" ????

 

[Manikm909]

Doubt they sell em up there mate

 

[Channel Hopper]

There are tests ongoing for a heat protection made from synthetic cork. It could be used as a liner in the upper stage to protect the payload should things go pearshaped again.

Performance of cork-based thermal protection material P50 exposed to air plasma - CEAS Space Journal