“Sorry to hear this,” wrote Musk on Twitter yesterday in response to the rocket failure. “It is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of orbital space flight.”
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ESA was counting on Vega-C to start lifting European payloads to orbit, tasks that have now been put on hold as a result of Tuesday’s mission failure. Hopefully ESA and its private partners will quickly recover from this setback and start launching payloads on a more consistent basis.
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