NASA launch it and it fall down and go boom.

[Johnny Rico]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned on here yet.

NASA launched a new Carbon finding satellite this morning on a Taurus XL rocket and it failed to separate and reach orbit and supposedly it crashed down somewhere around Antarctica, NASA says.

Article: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/index.html

 

[Squiggy]

The fairing housing the OCO satellite failed to deploy properly and the added weight caused the vehicle to fail to reach it's orbital altitude.

The rocket crashed in the Indian Ocean just North of Antarctica 17 minutes after liftoff.

 

[Johnny Rico]

The fairing housing the OCO satellite failed to deploy properly and the added weight caused the vehicle to fail to reach it's orbital altitude.

The rocket crashed in the Indian Ocean just North of Antarctica 17 minutes after liftoff.

Damn it...see what happens when Obama cuts funds to NASA?

 

[NX74205]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned on here yet.

NASA launched a new Carbon finding satellite this morning on a Taurus XL rocket and it failed to separate and reach orbit and supposedly it crashed down somewhere around Antarctica, NASA says.

Article: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/index.html

Pending the official investigation this is not NASA's fault. NASA does not build launch vehicles, they buy them from private contractors like Boeing and Lockheed martin. NASA is only responsible for the payload that sits on the rocket. Blaming NASA for this failure is like blaming the package on a semi-truck for not getting to Las Vegas from CA when the truck itself broke down.

Like I said this is all pending the official investigation, but payloads have little if nothing to do with launch failures, that is always on the launch vehicle. One could argue that maybe if NASA did build launch vehicles, like they did earlier in their history then this may not have happened. NASA in general is very very very risk adverse and trust me the last thing they want is for something to fail and show up on the front page of the Washington Post. I feel for them since 99.9% of their missions go as planned and you hear nothing about them, then one happens to fail and its the sky is falling.

Oh and one more thing, NASA's funding has not been cut, yet. They recently even got a little more money from the stimulus package, although since Obama's budget has not been released yet we really don't know what their funding levels will be next year.

 

[Data Holmes]

I think it did exactly what it was supposed to do...

 

[QuasarVM]

I'm hoping the upcoming North Korean launch meets a similar fate.

 

[Candlelight]

I'm hoping the upcoming North Korean launch meets a similar fate.

I hope it succeeds with flying colours.

 

[Plecostomus]

Since they know whereabouts it crashed any chance of recovering it?

 

[Alpha_Geek]

I wonder what the environmental impact of the crash will be...

 

[James Bond]

The fairing housing the OCO satellite failed to deploy properly and the added weight caused the vehicle to fail to reach it's orbital altitude.

The rocket crashed in the Indian Ocean just North of Antarctica 17 minutes after liftoff.

Damn it...see what happens when Obama cuts funds to NASA?

Hmm. Aren't you supposed to go to a particular place to go if you want to discuss hot button issues? Why are you bringing that stuff here to the Science and Tech forum?

 

[JustAFriend]

... THIS is why we don't launch nuclear waste into space...

 

[Squiggy]

Since they know whereabouts it crashed any chance of recovering it?

They know, but it's at the bottom of the ocean now and probably destroyed. A sensitive scientific platform such as that can't survive an oceanic impact and salt-water submersion. There's a reason why these things are assembled in clean rooms.

The fairing housing the OCO satellite failed to deploy properly and the added weight caused the vehicle to fail to reach it's orbital altitude.

The rocket crashed in the Indian Ocean just North of Antarctica 17 minutes after liftoff.

Damn it...see what happens when Obama cuts funds to NASA?

Hmm. Aren't you supposed to go to a particular place to go if you want to discuss hot button issues? Why are you bringing that stuff here to the Science and Tech forum?

Doesn't matter. NASA's is getting a budget increase.

 

[TerriO]

The fairing housing the OCO satellite failed to deploy properly and the added weight caused the vehicle to fail to reach it's orbital altitude.

The rocket crashed in the Indian Ocean just North of Antarctica 17 minutes after liftoff.

Damn it...see what happens when Obama cuts funds to NASA?

Hmm. Aren't you supposed to go to a particular place to go if you want to discuss hot button issues? Why are you bringing that stuff here to the Science and Tech forum?

I accept that many subjects will have political tangents.

However, Johnny, that one won't jibe under the political tangent argument.

If you want to get political about Obama and any subject whatsover, please take it elsewhere.

 

[QuasarVM]

I'm hoping the upcoming North Korean launch meets a similar fate.

I hope it succeeds with flying colours.

Seeing as you are in NZ, that's a stupid hope on your part.

You're kidding, right?