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The Register's mighty Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team is gearing up for a second test flight of our Vulture 2 spaceplane's vital rocket motor igniter assembly, following Monday's dramatic first attempt which unfortunately ended on a Spanish mountainside without the essential test firing carried out. Click …

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  1. Anomalous Cowturd
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    Better luck this time chaps and chapess.

    Hope the weather is as good as the other day.

    Great video from the chase car, by the way.

    Drinky poos?

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  2. Alister

    Good luck!

    Oh, and shouldn't it be Low Orbit Hydrogen Assisted Navigator now, I can't remember.

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    1. Martin Budden Silver badge
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      It doesn't go into Low Orbit, it doesn't use Helium, and if any of the many components fail it won't Navigate, so I think that "Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator" is the perfect name!

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  3. SteveD

    If you need help tracking you could try contacting Avila Radio Club, I have the email address. Plus those of a few local Amateurs. Obviously not going to post them here. If you want them contact me direct

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @SteveD

      Don't you think it's up to you to contact the club and others to let them know about this endeavour(*) so that they can decide if they want to oiffer assistance instead of them receiving unsolicited mail out of the blue. Presumably if you have the e-mail addresses then you are at least known to them

      it's good to want to be of help but spam is spam no matter.

      (*)They may already be aware of it and are helping or have decided they can be of no real assistance.

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  4. Peter Simpson 1

    Here's wishing you a successful launch, safe flight and easy, goat- and tree-free recovery!

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    1. Roger Greenwood
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      And not forgetting the Special Projects Bureau Special Projects Burro (SPBSPB)

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/special_projects_burro/

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/24/rip_aladdin/

      At the going down of the sun, and in the raising of a glass, we will remember him.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Truly great headline and byline, well done that man.

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  6. Mr_Pitiful

    Why so late in the day?

    Wouldn't it be better to launch between 9 or 10 am?

    Then you'd have a chance to track and recover in daylight!

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    1. Roger Greenwood
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      Re: Why so late in the day?

      9am?

      Spain?

      are you nuts?

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  7. Mark 85

    Just curious...

    ... as to who the interested observer strapped on the side of the box is. Obviously not an intrepid Playmonaut since he's not a spacesuit. Obviously far braver since he's sitting outside with his feet hanging in the breeze. I probably missed this bit of info....

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Just curious...

      That's a diver, in case of another water landing.

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  8. Martin Budden Silver badge
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    Third attempt, Shirley?

    There was the first attempt back in July, the second attempt a couple of days ago, so the next will be number three.

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  9. Richard Altmann

    godspeed

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  10. Buiatra

    Buena suerte, estaremos atentos

    Good luck

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  11. Anonymous Coward
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    Live feed Cameras

    Remember to point them where the action is this time please.

    Am looking forward to the car chase and goat carnage

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