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."
Like what? (Score:2, Interesting)
No offense, I'm seriously curious.
What is the middle ground between rockets and sci-fi megatech?
1. Rockets ...?
2.
3. Launch-loops / space elevators / etc.
Re:$4 for every US Household (Score:2, Interesting)
I've got a better idea. Let's ask the top 1% not to open the second bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild at dinner for a week and pay for the space program for a year.
Re:Womp Womp (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't know, Orbital's board of directors looks like a who's who of republican lobbyists and military contractor sweethearts.
A few lunch checks get picked up, a few golfing trips to Manele Bay and everybody's good. Oh, there will still be layoffs, but as Speaker John Boehner put it, "So be it."
Re:Womp Womp (Score:3, Interesting)
Conspiracy alert: They caused the nose cone problems to prevent those environmental satellites from confirming global warning!
:-P
Re:$4 for every US Household (Score:4, Interesting)
I prefer the bottom 99% show up at the 1%'s homes with torches and pichforks and solve the whole problem in a night.