ESA's VEGA rocket just exploded

jottit.com

5 points·kbronson··7 comments

At 14:00 GMT the BBC web site and the ESA web site are still announcing a flawless test flight.

Edit: Nothing on the ESA twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/esa

Edit: Even though it claims the explosion was at about 13:30, ESA was still tweeting about success at 14:00. Seems pretty clear this is a hoax, or blogspam, or similar.

I've also seen this referenced on Twitter. What's going on? The real-time video on ESA site seems hanged up...

Please provide a link - I've found nothing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/searches?q=vega+explode returns no results.

Edit: Thanks for your link but it just points back to this same page, it's not supporting evidence.

Edit: The alleged "More information" from the same Twitter account is simply a link to what is clearly a computer generated image of a launch. Not credible.

This appears to be a traffic generating scam/hoax.

This is the link I saw:

https://twitter.com/#!/carlosdelcasti2/status/16906170159189... (it's in spanish).

Is this true? I cannot confirm this, as the link there does not clarify much.

As far as I can find, there is nothing to support this. I think this is just an attempt to bring traffic to his/her website.

I don't think so, as Jottit is an instant web page creator and it doesn't seem to be any ad there. Why bother? Just trolling? I'm amused.

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