Rocket Trouble not Unquie to North Korea

By KnightHawk ~ July 10th, 2006 @ 6:14 pm

Seems India had problems of it’s own this week with it’s rocket launch, as have American companies in the past year or so. A reason to think twice for those that read too much into N. Korea’s Taepo-2 failure as meaning the program is terribly flawed.

A rocket carrying India’s heaviest satellite has disintegrated in a ball of smoke and flame seconds after lift-off, dealing a crippling blow to the country’s ambitious space programme.

The 49-metre (161-foot) rocket was launched at 1205 GMT from an island off the coast of the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, but veered off course and disintegrated about 30 seconds later, live television pictures showed.