Rocket Carrying New NASA Climate Satellite Likely Crashed Into Pacific Ocean

[NOKUY]

....424 million what the fuck!!!

who the fuck funds nasa?

i always assumed tax payers did.

...what a fukin' waste of money that shit is

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110...climatesatellitelikelycrashedintopacificocean

A rocket carrying NASA's newest climate satellite failed to reach orbit today (March 4) and likely crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean after its nose cone failed to separate on time, space agency officials said.

The rocket, a four-stage Taurus XL booster, launched from a seaside pad at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at about 2:10 a.m. PST (1010 GMT) carrying NASA's $424 million Glory satellite to study Earth's climate.

"We failed to make orbit," NASA launch director Omar Baez told reporters in a somber briefing following the launch failure. "All indications are, the satellite and rocket are in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere."

Minutes after liftoff, the Taurus XL rocket's nose cone – a clamshell-like covering around the satellite called a fairing that is designed to separate during the trip into orbit – suffered some sort of failure, NASA officials said.

A familiar failure

A similar launch failure occurred on a Taurus rocket in 2009, dooming another NASA climate mission – the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – when it also crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean. The rocket is built by the Virginia-based company Orbital Sciences Corp., and officials there thought they'd solved the booster's problem.

 

[Iron_Lion]

cheap chinese shit.

 

[Deft]

I think I heard we pay .5% of expenditures on the national level to nasa.

 

[Stoner4Life]

as long as it isn't a 'Dish Network' satellite who cares.......

 

[SpasticGramps]

The rocket is built by the Virginia-based company Orbital Sciences Corp., and officials there thought they'd solved the booster's problem.

 

[CANNATOPIA]

This is the best part,
"All indications are, the satellite and rocket are in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere."

They forgot to install the Larry The Cable Guy GPS.

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

the satalite with out the rockets were 424 they couldnt afford the gps... id make the damn company that botched the last two launches pay for it all... im sure well just give them a couple more billion to make up for it... wooohooo.

 

[resinryder]

They'll just file an insurance claim.