Lol! I’m not sure your agreeing or disagreeing.
Nonetheless, setting aside who is getting paid off for the 1.9 billion contract Orbital has with NASA, here are a few facts:
1. Orbital is attempting to use 50 year old engines designed, built and purchased from Russia. The failure tonight was because the first stage of one of those half century old engines failed as per an Orbital spokesperson.
Now, this means the engines were “built” approximately 50 years ago not “designed” 50 years ago and built last year. They have been in storage in Siberia since the sixties. So, the engines themselves and the technology are 50 years old.
2. The destroyed payload is estimated to be worth “hundreds” of millions of dollars.
3. The damage to Nasa’s Wallops Island facility will be in the tens of millions.
4. Cryptographic equipment was lost necessitating extreme measures to guard the site.
The whole program is obscenely stupid and no doubt hatched in some liberals mind somewhere.
That’s my opinion. Thanks for your comment.
Considering the number of failed launches they’ve had I’m surprised the government is still doing bidness with them.
I’m guessing that in the end, the cryptography equipment was “properly disposed of”. In the sense that it was blown up and then burnt to a crisp. I can’t imagine the military sanitization protocol would be any worse than what happened.
Sure though, some part might have just got blown away from the area.
I guess once in a while, the “Re-use/Recycle” protocol isn’t quite as good for the environment as we are led to believe. :-)