OCO Launch "Contingency" |
OCO Launch "Contingency" |
 Feb 24 2009, 10:21 AM
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NASA-TV reports the third stage failed to separate. Press conference in two hours.
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Feb 24 2009, 11:02 AM
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QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 24 2009, 11:21 AM)  NASA-TV reports the third stage failed to separate. "payload fairing failed to separate" Apparent loss of mission, no useful orbit achieved. -------------------- |
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Feb 24 2009, 01:42 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 24 2009, 11:02 AM) "payload fairing failed to separate" Apparent loss of mission, no useful orbit achieved. At least the Japanese Ibuki satellite seems to have launched successfully, and as far as I can tell it's doing much the same mission as OCO; I don't know what's lost by having only one set of CO2 measurements, but one is a lot better than zero. |
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Feb 24 2009, 02:48 PM
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The latest report says it ended up in the ocean.
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Feb 24 2009, 02:54 PM
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Short of Antarctica, to be exact.
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Feb 25 2009, 01:21 AM
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Sad indeed. Not as disappointing as the loss of Contour, but only because I had never heard of it until reading of the launch failure, so I wasn't anticipating anything.
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brellis OCO Launch "Contingency" Feb 24 2009, 10:21 AM
brellis NASA report Feb 24 2009, 10:34 AM brellis The folks at MC looked so sad on NASA-TV, I had to... Feb 24 2009, 11:13 AM Stu Bottom line: launching rockets always has been and... Feb 24 2009, 11:33 AM Stu Briefing on NASA TV now
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.... Feb 24 2009, 01:10 PM djellison Off topic posts removed. Feb 24 2009, 01:33 PM brellis On NASA-TV's broadcast, everything was "n... Feb 25 2009, 02:28 AM imipak Massive suckage
ISTR that commercial satellite l... Feb 25 2009, 08:15 PM
elakdawalla QUOTE (imipak @ Feb 25 2009, 12:15 PM) IS... Feb 27 2009, 03:58 PM briv1016 How many months before we know what happened? Feb 27 2009, 07:01 AM tty There is also a Canadian nanosatellite doing much ... Feb 27 2009, 08:26 PM tedstryk http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/...nding... Jul 17 2009, 07:08 PM monty python According to SPACEFLIGHT NOW, OCO2 will not be la... Feb 11 2012, 11:29 AM |
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