Space freighter launch failure

[Analoguesat]

Orbital Science is to retire the Soviet era engines. Looks like a turbopump failure was the cause of the crash.

http://www.space.com/27669-orbital-sciences-rocket-explosion-soviet-engines.html

 

[2cvbloke]

Retiring soviet-era hardware?? Do you know how long it took for them to stop producing the Lada Riva buckets???

 

[Channel Hopper]

Retiring soviet-era hardware?? Do you know how long it took for them to stop producing the Lada Riva buckets???

Still in production, the 2104 wagon, though not with this particular engine as standard.

http://www.carscoops.com/2013/11/watch-greek-lada-2104-wagon-silvia.html

 

[2cvbloke]

Talk about polishing a turd............