Brazilian rocket explosion

["Philip Egidi" <phil.egidi@state.co.us>]

Radsters,



Please see this article about the exploding rocket in Brazil.  I have

pasted one paragraph here that should be self-explanatory.

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<snip>

The rocket was to have transported two small satellites, carrying

positioning equipment, a communications transmitter and energy source.

They were to have been released into low orbit about 470 miles above the

Earth less than eight minutes after blastoff. 

<snip>



Does anyone know if the "energy source" was a device of a certain type

that we would be familiar with, and if it was loaded on the rocket when

it blew??



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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20030822/ts_nm/brazil_space_dc



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Phil Egidi

CDPHE

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