ATK / NASA Suborbital Rocket Explodes With HyBoLT And SOAREX

SPACEARIUM.COM - Video of an Alliant Tech Systems suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic experiments (HyBoLT and SOAREX) as
it was destroyed shortly after liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Friday, Aug. 22. No injuries or property damage were immediately reported. Most debris from the rocket is thought to have fallen in the Atlantic Ocean. The exact launch time was 5:10 a.m. EDT. The anomaly that caused the failure occurred approximately 27 seconds into flight and is not known. For mor space news, visit The Spacearium, www.spacearium.com

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[ugowar]

01:17 "... that a bad thing?"

[svh104]

I heard it was the guidance system.

[ivootje88]

ooo

[AMGB0Y]

i live right by ATK thiokol in Tremonton UT, and almost everyone in the town of tremonton works there. ATK is the one that built the rocket, and i heard that the reason they blew it up is cause the rocket was going off course. It was not caused by ATK but by the nose cone produced by some other company. ATK does make nose cones but they were more expensive than the other guys cone. so NASA opted to go with the sheeper nose cone. i guess NASA learned that ys get what ya pay for...

[japaneseaggression]

i live right by ATK thiokol in Tremonton UT, and almost everyone in the town of tremonton works there. ATK is the one that built the rocket, and i heard that the reason they blew it up is cause the rocket was going off course. It was not caused by ATK but by the nose cone produced by some other company. ATK does make nose cones but they were more expensive than the other guys cone. so NASA opted to go with the sheeper nose cone. i guess NASA learned that ys get what ya pay for...