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Confirmed that it never made it properly into orbit. It has already re-entered the atmosphere and burned up.
http://spaceflightnow.com/
http://spaceflightnow.com/
Live coverage of the launch of a Vega rocket from French Guiana with the Turkish military's Gokturk 1 surveillance satellite set for 1351 GMT today
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/05/vv08-mission-...
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/05/vv08-mission-...
MartG said:
Live coverage of the launch of a Vega rocket from French Guiana with the Turkish military's Gokturk 1 surveillance satellite set for 1351 GMT today
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/05/vv08-mission-...
Now live!http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/05/vv08-mission-...
There are variations in the plumes from different types of liquid fuelled rockets too - depending on what fuels are being used.
The Saturn V used Liquid Oxygen and kerosene as its propellants. It therefore burned fairly cleanly although it did have a bright yellow flame and a thin brown hazy smokey trail.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines ran on Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen which burned even cleaner with no visible smoke trail and the only real byproduct of the combustion process was water vapour. The Delta IV heavy runs on a similar combination and leaves no noticeable trail at all.
The other type of liquid propellants are those which are hypergolic. In other words, they ignite on contact with each other and don't need a separate ignition system. These propellants are pretty nasty and they definitely do leave a smokey trail - one it is best to keep well clear of. Examples of hypergolic fuels are hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid.
Rockets such as the Russian Proton and the now retired American Titan family used such engines -
The Saturn V used Liquid Oxygen and kerosene as its propellants. It therefore burned fairly cleanly although it did have a bright yellow flame and a thin brown hazy smokey trail.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines ran on Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen which burned even cleaner with no visible smoke trail and the only real byproduct of the combustion process was water vapour. The Delta IV heavy runs on a similar combination and leaves no noticeable trail at all.
The other type of liquid propellants are those which are hypergolic. In other words, they ignite on contact with each other and don't need a separate ignition system. These propellants are pretty nasty and they definitely do leave a smokey trail - one it is best to keep well clear of. Examples of hypergolic fuels are hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid.
Rockets such as the Russian Proton and the now retired American Titan family used such engines -
Delta V due off at 23:53 - 00:42 GMT tonight
Also this happened earlier today http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/isro-pslv-launc...
Also this happened earlier today http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/isro-pslv-launc...
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