A rocket exploded at Mojave Airport in the California desert, killing two people and seriously injuring four others, while the cause of the explosion have not been immediately known.
"There was an explosion on the Mojave Airport on Thursday," fire engineer Roberto Figueroa of the Kern County Fire Department said on Thursday.
"There are two confirmed fatalities and four seriously injured."
"What exploded was a rocket," he said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
The airport is located 130 kilometres north of Los Angeles.
The Mojave desert is the site of the aerospace company Scaled Composites, run by US engineer Burt Rutan, who in 2004 won a USD 10-million prize by launching a rocket to space twice within a two-week period.
Scaled Composites, which is currently working with British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to send tourists to space by 2010, did not answer a telephone calls on Thursday by a news agency. - DD News
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