Cryosat Mission Feared Lost |
Cryosat Mission Feared Lost |
Oct 8 2005, 06:15 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4319596.stm
Mission control at ESA is growing increasingly concerned about the fate of Europe's ice monitoring spacecraft, Cryosat. The Cryosat spacecraft was launched at 1902 local time today, Oct 8, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, but mission controllers have failed to receive a signal from the spacecraft. |
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Oct 8 2005, 08:27 PM
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The Russians have now confirmed that its upper stage failed. Russian ICBM-based boosters seem, to put it mildly, unreliable -- I suppose we can console ourselves that in the event of WW III, half the Soviet ICBMs would never have reached us.
But CryoSat is an important loss; it would have provided a test of just how much one of the most important possible ongoing effects from global warming is actually occurring. |
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Oct 8 2005, 08:50 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 8 2005, 10:27 PM) The Russians have now confirmed that its upper stage failed. Russian ICBM-based boosters seem, to put it mildly, unreliable -- I suppose we can console ourselves that in the event of WW III, half the Soviet ICBMs would never have reached us. Rest assured, even if only half of the Soviet ICBM force reached the U.S., you'd still be in for one heck of a bad time. The amount of overkill, even today, still seems mindblowing. -------------------- |
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