Posted: 2/24/2009 2:54:07 AM EDT
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Looks like it did not separate its nose cone. More info to come later, I hope I am not the only one who cares.
http://spaceflightnow.com/taurus/oco/failure.html |
| and it looks like North Korea may get a satellite in orbit today. crap |
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The article says they don't have anything on the launch pad, and when they do it will take 5-7 days to fuel it. Not to mention, they haven't exactly had great results with their long range missile testing. In other news, I hear the ABL is coming along quite nicely.  |
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That's funny... use a solid-fuel rocket booster, which probably adds quite a few pollutants to the atmosphere, to launch a satellite that measures CO2 in said atmosphere. And to have it fail, which means another launch will be necessary. I'm sure the conspiracy people will have a field day with this. A satellite that might actually debuke global warming and it ends up just being another turd in space instead. 
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