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Strong winds over the launch site and thick cloud cover have led NASA to delay its planned resupply mission to the International Space Station. Orbital Sciences Atlas Getting ready to rumble The launch would have been Orbital Sciences' first resupply mission to the ISS since last November, when the firm's Antares rocket …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Make a wish...

    "...the cargo vehicle will stay attached to the station for a month as it's unpacked and refilled with garbage, before being sent off to burn up in the atmosphere."

    Or possibly shower some lucky people with burning 'space garbage.' Hey, it's much higher quality than what we got down here!

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    1. imanidiot Silver badge
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      Re: Make a wish...

      The trajectory is crafted to make sure any bits that COULD make it down splash into the wide open pacific where they are VERY unlikely to hit anything other than the water and the seafloor. Any "throwaway" vehicle is also designed to break up and fall apart into bits that burn up almost completely. Very few bits will make it all the way back down to the surface.

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    2. phuzz Silver badge
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      Re: Make a wish...

      Hey! That's aerospace grade garbage! You should feel lucky that it destroyed your house.

      Also, why did you build your house in the middle of the Pacific?

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      1. hplasm
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        Re: Make a wish...

        "Also, why did you build your house in the middle of the Pacific?"

        Well, it was called Tracey Island. Do you realise what you have done...?

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  2. MrDamage Silver badge

    For a moment

    I thought the article ha something to do with the after effects of all that borscht they had to resort to eating after the last resupply failed.

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  3. Gergmchairy

    Pi's

    Dont forget the Raspberry Pi's that are on-board for the Astro Pi expermiments....

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  4. Crazy Operations Guy

    Why Android?

    Why would you use Android for a Communications satellite? The closet thing to android it should have would be a Linux-powered management system and a couple cores running a proper RTOS (Or even just microcontrollers running through closed loops).

    These things are supposed to be routing packets, not playing Angry Birds...

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  5. Ru'

    Is it just me, or does the 4th-from-right tank (in the Getting ready to rumble photo) look like Leela from Futurama?

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