Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure 246
FullBandwidth writes "The protective nose cone of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory environmental research satellite apparently failed to separate after launch Friday, preventing the spacecraft from achieving orbit in a $424 million failure. It was the second nose cone failure in a row for a Taurus XL rocket following the 2009 loss of another environmental satellite."
Two environmental satellites lost in a row? (Score:5, Funny)
I bet Big Oil is behind this.
Fix to overcome problem next time... (Score:3, Funny)
IANARS
Just make the fairing lighter and stick a bit more fuel in the rocket, problem getting to orbit solved! As for getting the satellite out, perhaps they could stick a baby chick in who can peck their way through the shell?
(Absolutely no idea why NASA didn't hire me, what with all my lack of qualifications and everything. I have loads of useful ideas ;)
Re:Fix to overcome problem next time... (Score:5, Funny)
(Absolutely no idea why NASA didn't hire me, what with all my lack of qualifications and everything. I have loads of useful ideas ;)
Don't put yourself down Senator.
Re:Two environmental satellites lost in a row? (Score:0, Funny)
Of course Big Oil's angle might be to welcome the launch of satellites that can reveal better information about the climate. ;-)
The real people who won't want these launched would be the established climatologists.
Maybe I'm being sarcastic, and maybe I'm not.
Re:Time for a launch loop (Score:2, Funny)
Well you engineers can't seem to get the process of nose cone separation right, let alone the rest of the rocket. How about let's not lose any more missions because a nose cone didn't come off. Redundant systems hello???? When the thing failed to come off, there should have been two more systems behind that ready to crack that nose cone off the rocket.
Or maybe engineers are just a bunch of monkeys jacking off after all.
Sincerely, REPUBLICANS who fucking hate smart people.