Japanese Shuttle Crashes in Sweden

spacecomputer writes "Japanese delta wing space shuttle crashes in Sweden field during high speed test. Another setback for the Hope-X program."

Why are they having trouble?

[GuyMannDude]

You'd think Japan would be the last place to be having trouble getting a large, heavy, stiff object to fly at great speeds. Can't they just study how Rodan does it?

Next you'll be telling me they're having trouble demolishing buildings...

GMD

Re:Why are they having trouble?

[Tumbleweed]

I'm thinking it was Ghidra who knocked it out. Ghidra always was a pissy little bitch.

Re:Why are they having trouble?

[smithmc]

You'd think Japan would be the last place to be having trouble getting a large, heavy, stiff object to fly at great speeds.

Obviously they didn't put enough fake "Type-R" stickers on it.

Not that bad

[womprat]

It doesn't sound like that much of a setback. It was unmanned, crashed in a field because only one of three parachutes opened.
And this quote: "From a scientific perspective, it was a success because we collected the data we were looking for."

Re:Not that bad

[NanoGator]

"It doesn't sound like that much of a setback. It was unmanned, crashed in a field because only one of three parachutes opened."

Japanese scientists are insisting that no wing damage occured when Godzilla took a swipe at it.

Re:Not that bad

[Tablizer]

And this quote: "From a scientific perspective, it was a success because we collected the data we were looking for."

I'll have to remember that one.

"Well Boss, I know it looks bad that we forgot to turn off Register_globals and let the whole world have access to our customers' credit card numbers and age, but from a scientific perspective....."

Did anybody else read the headline...

[Anonvmous Coward]

...and picture a sheep standing in the middle of a field wearing a surprised expression on it's face and a shuttle protruding from it's rear?

Re:Did anybody else read the headline...

[hengist]

No. It crashed in Sweden, not New Zealand ;-)

Re:Did anybody else read the headline...

[Anonvmous Coward]

"No. It crashed in Sweden, not New Zealand ;-)"

I didn't say it killed a man!

=)

Re:Did anybody else read the headline...

[Anonymous Coward]

The place where it crashed is inside a huge area in northern Sweden set off for rocket experiments. There are no sheep there, but probably quite a few reindeer. They launch rockets from this site (Esrange) many times a year, and they all fall back inside this area where the shuttle crashed (except for once or twice where a rocket missed and fell down over the border into Norway instead. But that area is pretty barren as well, not much chance of hitting anyone there either.)

Re:SWEDEN FIELD?

[NanoGator]

"I vote we get this poster some grammar lessons:"

I vote that you worry about what he was said instead of how he phrased it.

Re:SWEDEN FIELD?

[Anonvmous Coward]

"I vote that you worry about what he was said instead of how he phrased it."

Too bad you were modded as overrated, I thought you made a good point. I probably have a different reason for not wanting to pick on people for grammar and spelling: people visit Slashdot from all over the world, not just the english speaking countries.

If we're going to be so anal about how people speak english, then how can people just learning english participate? That's a pretty shitty way to discriminate against people exp

Re:SWEDEN FIELD?

[Anonymous Coward]

If we're going to be so anal about how people speak english, then how can people just learning english participate? That's a pretty shitty way to discriminate against people expanding their ability to communicate.

Right, and the best way for people to become better at speaking English and thereby "expand their ability to communicate" is for them not to be corrected when they make mistakes. Best to let them keep making mistakes until the mistakes become habits. Certainly, they shouldn't, as the original p

Re:SWEDEN FIELD?

[NanoGator]

"is for them not to be corrected when they make mistakes. Best to let them keep making mistakes until the mistakes become habits. Certainly, they shouldn't, as the original poster suggests, take grammar lessons. That would be crazy. "

Rationalization Error:
Insulting != Correcting.

When I first read the headline...

[Higman]

..I thought isn't Sweden a little far from Japan? Gave me the impression that the "high-speed" portion of the test was a success...

Re:When I first read the headline...

[Apa]

Yup, it sounds as if it (the shuttle) took of from Sweden. Most likely from Esrange [www.ssc.se] in northernmost Sweden. And that's why it's neither strange nor very dramatic (no sheep for example) that it crashed in a field in Sweden. You see, Esrange is positioned in northern Sweden just because there are vast uninhabited fields where rockets can fall down without causing any problems.

hmmm.....

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet their shuttle gets a lot better mileage than American shuttles do though. :)

1 in 3 (in five-minute plunge)

[Muhammar]

Tall blondes may participate in two more tests that had been planned

.8 mach is SLOW

[Dolphinzilla]

Just for reference an ancient Boeing 707 can do .85 mach or better.

Japan and Sweden...

[PHAEDRU5]

...cooperating on the development of a space shuttle. Who would have thought it?

I mean, I know that the Japanese have their F-2 and manufacture F-15s under license, while the Swedes have their Saab fighters.

I'd just never thought about the two of them getting together and into the space race.

Wow!

Re:Japan and Sweden...

[w42w42]

Is it Japan and Sweden, or Japan and the EU? Or, is it Japan taking advantage of a contractor that happens to be from Sweden?

Re:Japan and Sweden...

[fredrik70]

Probably Japan just made use of esrange's facilities for launching the japanese test shuttle. Quite a good place to test things that are likely to crash, they got a 120 x 75 km large test area for things to crash in.