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ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 18 2016, @04:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

butthurt writes:

Interns working at United Launch Alliance have built and launched two suborbital rockets from a site in Colorado, according to a space.com story. Billed as the "largest sport rocket launched in the world," the Future Heavy was 50 feet (15.24 m) in length and was designed to reach an apogee of 10,000 feet (3 km); the Genesis rocket measured 10 feet (3 m). Several payloads were lofted, including "a kindergarten experiment in solar physics."

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday August 18 2016, @06:47AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday August 18 2016, @06:47AM (#389506) Journal

    Getting 3% of the way there is not a suborbital flight.

    Thanks. That was my mistake.

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