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OCO Launch "Contingency"
brellis
post 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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post 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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Tom Womack
post 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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post Feb 24 2009, 02:48 PM
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The latest report says it ended up in the ocean. sad.gif
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- brellis   OCO Launch "Contingency"   Feb 24 2009, 10:21 AM
- - brellis   NASA report   Feb 24 2009, 10:34 AM
- - ugordan   QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 24 2009, 11:21 AM) N...   Feb 24 2009, 11:02 AM
|- - Tom Womack   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 24 2009, 11:02 AM) ...   Feb 24 2009, 01:42 PM
|- - MahFL   The latest report says it ended up in the ocean.   Feb 24 2009, 02:48 PM
|- - ugordan   Short of Antarctica, to be exact.   Feb 24 2009, 02:54 PM
|- - tedstryk   Sad indeed. Not as disappointing as the loss of C...   Feb 25 2009, 01:21 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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