{"id":679,"date":"2006-10-06T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/up-aerospace-still-seeking-cause-of-anomaly\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T17:42:00","slug":"up-aerospace-still-seeking-cause-of-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/up-aerospace-still-seeking-cause-of-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Aerospace still seeking cause of anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>UP Aerospace<\/a> has completed a preliminary analysis of its Sept. 25 launch from Spaceport America<\/a>. It didn\u2019t identify what went wrong, but eliminated many major problems as possible causes. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe entire vehicle \u2013 from nosecone to airframe to motor to fins \u2013 remained structurally sound throughout the entire flight,\u201d company President Jerry Larson said in a news release. \u201cEverything was fine from launch, through apogee, back through the atmosphere, to landing. There were no premature flight events. All of the key systems were operating as anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Analysis confirms that, for the first nine seconds of the flight, things went perfectly, Larson said. If the rocket had continued on that path for another three seconds, the flight would have been entirely successful, he said.<\/p>\n

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But that didn\u2019t happen. Eight miles into the planned 70-mile journey into space, an \u201canomaly\u201d caused a \u201cwobble\u201d that sent the rocket back to earth instead of into space.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe subtlety of the anomaly is what is making the analysis a little more time-consuming,\u201d Larson said. \u201cBut that, in itself, is good news. A major anomaly would be quickly apparent. We\u2019ve thus been able to rule out many things that would be serious issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UP Aerospace is working with officials from the spaceport and White<\/st1:placename> Sands<\/st1:placename> Missile<\/st1:placename> Range<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> to analyze data and determine what went wrong.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, the company said, it still plans a launch that will \u201ctake place before the end of this year.\u201d It made no mention of the previously set Oct. 21 launch date, which has apparently been put on hold pending the outcome of investigation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a very short time, we\u2019ll zero in on the root cause, inform our launch partners and the media, and start preparing for our next flights,\u201d Larson said. \u201cI think people will be surprised at how fast we return to flight operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can watch the video I took of the launch by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UP Aerospace has completed a preliminary analysis of its Sept. 25 launch from Spaceport America. It didn\u2019t identify what went wrong, but eliminated many major problems as possible causes. \u201cThe entire vehicle \u2013 from nosecone to airframe to motor to fins \u2013 remained structurally sound throughout the entire flight,\u201d company President Jerry Larson said in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}