Orbiting Carbon Observatory Anomaly

NASA OCO launch update: A sad day indeed. We're planning a mishap briefing shortly, tentative time: 7:15 a.m. EST on www.nasa.gov/ntv .

OCO failed to reach orbit

Deirdre Kelleghan
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The latest is that the craft into the ocean not far off Antarctica. The fairing shield failed to give way and thus made the craft too heavy to achieve orbit.

edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/02/24/nasa.launch/index.html


Seanie.

Must have been organised by George W and his anti global warming buddies : cheer:

Dave_Lillis wrote:

Must have been organised by George W and his anti global warming buddies : cheer:

The very same thing could be argued from the opposite perspective. i.e. the GW heads shot this down because they don't want to deal with the facts, and their gravy train is running away. Let the data speak once they're finally received, (even then there will be 40 different interpretations)'till then.......

BTW. W (dubble-yeh) could not have organised something as subtle as this, he would have wanted fireworks and fire and brimstone:P

Did I read somewhere that C02 represents a fraction of 1% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Water Vapour being the most abundent. Ties in with your sun gamma ray cloud seeding theory John. GW and lack of observing oportunities having the same root cause