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Topic:	[Discuss] SpaceX Fram2 polar-orbit mission

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Axman: [B]Those maps are of absolutely no comfort. Debris from rocket destruction, whether by accident or by range safety officer, are no respecter of tidy theoretical boundaries. Remember [URL=https://mansors.com/blog/liability-for-damage-caused-by-space-objects]Rufina[/URL]. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]A Thor DM-21 rocket was launched into space carrying two satellites [Transit 3a + Solrad 2] at Cape Canaveral on 30 November 1960. Sometime after the launch, the rocket exploded, and its debris fell on Cuba, killing a cow named Rufina. Fidel Castro called the accident a "cruel attack and violation of Cuba's air space." Shortly after, about 250 Cubans with several cows demonstrated in front of the US Embassy in Havana. "The Yankees are killing us without mercy," "Eisenhower, you murdered one of my sisters," etc., said the banners of the protestors' cows. Rufina had a state funeral. Eventually, the Cuban and US governments agreed to settle the damages claim for 2 million USD. The world remembered Rufina as the most expensive cow in history.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Now imagine the outrage if a large chunk of nearly outer space high debris descended and killed a Cuban person, not a cow. Wars have been started over less.[/B][/QUOTE]
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