Satellite Image Of Brazilian Rocket Explosion Aftermath

ROCKET SCIENCE

Satellite image of Alcantara launch pad destruction
Copyright 2003 Space Imaging. All rights reserved.

Denver - Aug 28, 2003
This Aug. 23, 2003 IKONOS satellite image shows the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed the Brazilian VLS-1 V-03 rocket designed to carry two satellites into orbit.

The Aug. 22 explosion killed 21 people after an engine ignited by mistake while on its launch pad. The rocket exploded at its jungle base of Alcantara, in the northeastern state of Maranhao, Brazil.

The image shows the burned vegetation and the collapsed launch pad. A before image taken on Sept. 5, 2001 is also available for comparison.

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ROCKET SCIENCE

Brazilian Rocket Explodes On Pad: Many Dead

Brasilia (AFP) Aug 23, 2003
Twenty-one people died in the explosion of a satellite launch rocket at Brazil's Alcantara space center near here, aeronautics officials confirmed Saturday.

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