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2 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

It looks like dream chaser mixed with starhip and hermes.

It also looks like one of the doctors dropped the poor thing when it was born.

But if it works it works, it is pretty cool that might actually make a crew launch vehicle in the near future :)

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Please note that this is a concept but that there is unfortunately no funding on it yet. The goal of Arianespace with this announcement is to push for interest for manned spaceflight by Europe, and get funding for it.

But it's honestly an original concept. Let's hope EU to join the manned spacerace.

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Looks like Vega C failed, not a good look for the Vega family, at least the launch commentators realized something was wrong, but it was interesting seeing the animations go like the mission was nominal long after the failure

https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/12/21/two-pleiades-neo-earth-imaging-satellites-lost-in-failure-of-europes-vega-c-rocket/

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On 9/19/2022 at 9:10 AM, tater said:

Still a cool concept.

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(I think the 40m3 of pressurized cargo has to be wrong since the docking port is in the cargo bay.)

How did I completely miss this discussion?

Seems like a very promising concept. Same landing mode (kick-flip and hover) as Starship. Has the advantage of pad abort capability, which Starship lacks. Interesting split flap-cum-landing-leg design for the lifting-body re-entry control.

Making it a reusable upper stage would require too much of a stretch for the lifting-body re-entry to work the way it's depicted, I think.

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N° 7–2023: Loss of flight VV22: Independent Enquiry Commission announces conclusions

https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Loss_of_flight_VV22_Independent_Enquiry_Commission_announces_conclusions

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Initial investigations, conducted right after the launch with the available flight data, confirmed that the launcher’s sub-systems reacted to the events as designed, and that the cause of the failure was a gradual deterioration of the Zefiro 40’s nozzle. More precisely, the Commission confirmed that the cause was an unexpected thermo-mechanical over-erosion of the carbon-carbon (C-C) throat insert of the nozzle, procured by Avio in Ukraine. Additional investigations led to the conclusion that this was likely due to a flaw in the homogeneity of the material. 

The anomaly also revealed that the criteria used to accept the C-C throat insert were not sufficient to demonstrate its flightworthiness. The Commission has therefore concluded that this specific C-C material can no longer be used for flight. No weakness in the design of Zefiro 40 has been revealed. Avio is implementing an immediate alternative solution for the Zefiro 40’s nozzle with another C-C material, manufactured by ArianeGroup, already in use for Vega’s Zefiro 23 and Zefiro 9 nozzles. 

 

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40 minutes ago, callmecapy said:

idk if this is the right place to ask but when is the next launch of an Arian rocket

Here's a site where you can check:

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

Looks like April 13 for one of the last launches of an Ariane 5 (another in the summer)
 

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April 13Ariane 5 • JUICE

Launch time: Approx. 1215 GMT (8:15 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana

Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA261, to launch the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE. The JUICE spacecraft, built by Airbus, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031. This will mark the final launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket.

 

 

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