• By Charlie White
    Feb 2, 2007 7:30 AM 585
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    Uh-Oh: Satellite Launch Ends in Tremendous Explosion


    Let's start your day off with a bang: This is what happens when an unmanned launch vehicle with nearly a million pounds of fuel on board explodes. As the 209-foot Zenit-3SL rocket slumped to its Sea Launch platform, an enormous conflagration consumed its payload, a 96-transponder communications satellite belonging to SES New Skies.

    Oh, well. Back to the old drawing board. Looks like something that might have happened in the late '50s. – Charlie White

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