Explosion on Sea Launch...

Check out the Sea Launch NSS-8 launch explosion on January 30, 2007...

Depending on the damage to the launch platform, this may actually delay DirecTV's goal of having over 100 HD channels by years end because Sea Launch is scheduled to launch DirecTV11 this year. DirecTV11 is one of two MPEG4 capable satellites DirecTV has scheduled to be launched this year.