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Post by sunnydave on Feb 24, 2009 15:45:56 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 24, 2009 18:19:05 GMT
"The rocket landed in the ocean near Antarctica. A group of environment ministers from more than a dozen countries met on the southern continent this week to get the latest science on global warming."
Unfortunately, the missile also missed this target of opportunity ;D
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Post by Ratty on Feb 24, 2009 22:59:18 GMT
We can expect this headline:
"Dangerously high atmospheric CO2 causes rocket motor failure - satellite crashes."
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Post by socold on Feb 26, 2009 21:27:35 GMT
The carbon observatory satellite lost this week was from this rocket: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_(rocket)It had one other failure before but 6 successful launches. Now it has 6 success, 2 failures. Glory is going to be launched from this one...does that mean it has 25% of launch failure? Cryosat which failed to launch three eyars ago was launched on some communist rocket: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockotAnyway on that wiki page it lists the launches and the successes/failures. All successes except cryosat  Apparently Cryosat2 (which is basically cryosat rebuilt) is going to be launched late this year on this different rocket: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr_rocketSeems to have a similar success rate with one failure in July 2006 (look at all those satellites that got lost!). Knowing the luck so far with interesting satellites this one will ditch as well...better not though, I doubt there will be a cryosat 3 |
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