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Antares launch to resupply space station halted by wayward airplane
- thrill 9y agoI wouldn't want to be that pilot once the FAA identifies him. Violating a restricted area can result in federal prison for a year.
- inamberclad 9y agoHe will likely not go to prison since this is an administrative affair. However, he'll likely get his cert pulled for at least a year.
- fred_is_fred 9y agoIs it possible to fine the plane that did it from public flight plans/records?
- javiramos 9y agoExciting that launches now feel commonplace. I don't know how launch frequency has increased over the course of the past few years but with Space X and Blue Origin all over the news, launch missions feel commonplace.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoBlue Origin doesn't really launch yet. They launched a few (I think, they are famous for being much more secretive than SpaceX) test flights, but nothing to orbit yet. This was a Orbital Sciences/ATK flight (two somewhat old-space companies[1] such recently merged). [1] Orbital Sciences was founded in the early eighties, and ATK was old enough to be the contractor to build the shuttle SRBs.
- irickt 9y agoNow launched: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/12/space-station-cargo-shipment-blasts-off-aboard-antares-rocket/ https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/12/space-station-cargo-sh...