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 9 2005, 02:10 AM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 8 2005, 08:50 PM) 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. Oh, I know. I didn't say it was MUCH of a consolation. (A few years back, Newsweek had a lengthy article on the staggering amount of overkill in both nation's ICBM forces -- they had entire fusion warheads devoted to taking out individual railroad stations. When Cheney, as Bush Sr.'s Secretary of Defense, was told about this, he gasped, "Who's responsible for this?" "Why, you are, sir," a general replied. All Pentagon officials at all levels had routinely supported gradually piling on more and more and more overkill, and of course the same thing happened on the Soviet side.) |
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