Glory Ready for Climate Mission with Launch on Redesigned Taurus XL

NASA's Glory spacecraft has been encapsulated and bolted atop an Orbital Science Corp. Taurus XL for launch on a mission to study aerosols in Earth's atmosphere. One of Glory's two specialized instruments will allow Glory to survey and map tiny particles in the atmosphere to help determine how they affect the planet's climate. The second instrument will evaluate the sun's influence on the atmosphere. Glory is being launched on a Taurus XL that is making its return-to-flight following the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory in February 2009. The launch team examined the rocket's design carefully and helped with the redesign of critical components to allow a successful mission for Glory.

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[TackyNames]

@TehChillinJuggalo NASA uses Linux. :)

[haychman]

Thank you for this bit of info. Quite informative.

[SovietUnity]

DOH! The launch failed today! 424 million bucks! :'(

[sad4ewer]

another scam?

[kirza94]

This is why NASA should make a Space simulator, with all this tech they'd get quite a few $ out of it :D

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@LFCsoldier

What exactly is NASA lying about?

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@oomblikkies

"This is for me an admission...."

Nobody ever claimed that the science is settled on every aspect of climate change. What is settled though, is the fact that the average global temperature is increasing largely due to human activity. This mission is will just enable scientist to make better predictions of just how much of a change we should expect.

[oomblikkies]

So, Glory will tell us more about aerosols and how it affects our climate. This is for me an admission by NASA that the science is indeed not settled on climate as was claimed by Al Gore and others.

[LFCsoldier]

@mecher3k I'm not black.

Typical low IQ at work here!

You show your intelligence level even more.

[LFCsoldier]

@mecher3k What makes me a retarted nutter? Because I know my shit? Because I actually research what I talk about? Or is it because your a stupid, moronic asshole who doesn't know shit? Or is it because you can't wrap your tiny little brain around the subject? Fuck off dickface and go fuck yourself! Is that more like your intelligence level?