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Japan's Shuttle Model Crashes

Unmanned Prototype Can Be Repaired

Everything was going normally, from the balloon launch at about 70,000 feet, right on down past 4000. Then, when the parachute/airbag recovery system was set to deploy, it didn't.

Japan's unmanned shuttle model, which has made several successful flights, thumped into the ground some 800 miles north of Stockholm, near the Swedish Space Corp testing area in Kiruna, Sweden.

Mikael Viertotak, the project leader there, told reporters, "The recovery system did not work properly to give it a soft landing."

The HSFD, a 1/4-scale, 1600-lb machine, is, from what we see and hear, pretty badly damaged, but not to be written off. Viertotak noted, "It has to be refurbished before it can fly again." You bet.

FMI: http://www.nasda.go.jp/projects/rockets/hsfd/index_e.html

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