Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

The investigation is underway, hopefully Elon and his team will get to the root cause as soon as possible and launch again sometime later this year.

Preliminary SpaceX Internal Analysis: Falcon I Flight…: “However, at T+25s, a fuel leak of currently unknown origin caused a fire around the top of the main engine that cut into the first stage helium pneumatic system. On high resolution imagery, the fire is clearly visible within seconds after liftoff. Once the pneumatic pressure decayed below a critical value, the spring return safety function of the pre-valves forced them closed, shutting down the main engine at T+29s.”

(Via Commercial Space Watch.)

Just a follow-up to my post last week on Del.icio.us, Yahoo has added it to their toolbar. No surprise there since Yahoo acquired them recently. It will be interesting to see what affect this has on referrals.

New Tools in the Toolbar: “

We’ve been working hard on the Yahoo! Toolbar for IE and Firefox so here’s a quick update for you all.

Deliciousness
Speaking of changes, you must have heard about del.icio.us by now! People use del.icio.us to save and share web favorites. We’ve just created a del.icio.us button for our US users. You add it to your IE or Firefox toolbar to get easy access to your del.icio.us account from anywhere on the web. If you already have toolbar installed, you can add it with a click, otherwise, find it on the Add/Edit Buttons page in the ‘Personal Tools’ section.

(Via Yahoo! Search blog.)

Unfortunately the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon rocket ended in failure. After what looked like a good launch some 30 seconds into the flight the vehicle started to roll. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development said the spacecraft was lost. More details when I have it.

We just posted this press release “Historic SpaceX Launch Set for Today March 24: The World’s First Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit” on SpaceRef. In the release is the following information on how to watch the first Falcon launch by SpaceX.

A live Web cast of this historic launch will be available at http://www.spacex.com/?content=webcast. Please note the feed will be coming over a satellite link, so users will experience periodic interruptions. When video freezes, merely restart/refresh program. Media will not be hosted at SpaceX Headquarters in El Segundo due to the new Web cast availability.

Ok I admit it, while I had heard of Del.icio.us some time ago I had not bothered to really pay attention to it. So when my business partner queried me about it I decided to finally have a look. Del.icio.us describes their service as “a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s.” And after looking at it I’m not quite sure what all the fuss is about. Is it truly a must use for finding nuggets of info on the ‘Net?

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