Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink
Scottish space startup Skyrora's first attempt to launch its Skylark L rocket ended in failure after it unexpectedly came crashing down into the Norwegian sea.
The Skylark L is a sub-orbital vehicle: it's designed to blast off vertically, is said to be capable of reaching speeds more than four times the speed of sound, and is supposed to reach 125 kilometers in altitude – but it cannot leave Earth's orbit. The flight demonstration carried out this month, from a mobile pad in in Langanes, Iceland, was intended to be a stepping stone to scaling up the design to a larger Skylark XL vehicle that can reach true orbit.
Unfortunately, the first-ever launch of the smaller Skylark L didn't go according to plan."The vehicle left the launch pad and experienced an anomaly, landing in the Norwegian Sea approximately 500 meters away from the launch site," Skyrora"No people or wildlife were harmed in any way, and recovery of the vehicle is currently ongoing. Multiple tracking systems as well as boats and airplanes have been employed to optimize the recovery process.
Skyrora, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is hoping to launch a commercial rocket service flying modest payloads into low-Earth orbit. The Skylark XL will be a three-stage, light-class launch vehicle that will deliver spacecraft in sun-synchronous or polar orbits. Around 70 per cent of the technology in the Skylark L launch attempt will be used in the systems of the Skylark XL rocket, we're told. Well, once it's all working, we assume.
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