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What do you think this satellite would have told us?
The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off around 2:10 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
But NASA said in a brief statement that a protective shell or fairing atop the rocket did not separate from the satellite as it should have about three minutes after the launch.
That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit, NASA launch commentator George Diller said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304/ap_on_sc/us_sc...
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For those who think privatizing space flight would help and/or who blame NASA alone, you may wish to read this:
"NASA paid Orbital about $54 million to launch Glory, according to Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski. The Taurus rocket has launched nine times, six of them successfully.
NASA and Orbital spent more than a year studying and trying to fix the problem that caused 2009's Orbiting Carbon Observatory to fail." [from the story in the first link]
Here's Orbital's homepage > http://www.orbital.com/
7 Answers
- DavidLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
So now we have two failed climate science satellites in two years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/24/...
Agreed with Hey Dook. Time to let Richard Branson and the PayPal guy have a go.
Expeller: Earth Science is 7.5% of NASA's total budget. Even without climate change being a concern, there are still a lot of important things to be learned about how our planet works.
- DaveHLv 51 decade ago
I have to agree with Dawei on this.
It's very unfortunate to have lost this aerosol studying satellite and the previous CO2 sensor. Both were important in helping us understand how our whole atmosphere really works with regard to irradiation and absorption.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I have no idea what it would have told us, but I can tell you what it is telling us. We have completely misappropriated NASA resources. They decrease the budget for the spac program drastically , while at the same time asking NASA, to do what is not in their mission at all and report on "climate change". Now they are barely able to launch satellites into space.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Tells us that NASA isn't good at their primary mission.
So why should we expect them to be good at what isn't their primary mission?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Darn that Dr. Smith . It would tell them that they would lie some more .
