$280M NASA Satellite Crashes Into Ocean

A NASA satellite launched on a two-year mission to track carbon dioxide

emissions worldwide had technical problems shortly after its pre-dawn lift
off today that put in jeopardy its mission to better understand
greenhouse gas and global warming.

The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) blasted
off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast, but launch managers shifted to a "contingency plan" minutes later because the payload fairing failed to separate properly
from the spacecraft after it left the atmosphere, NASA commentator George
Diller said.

The fairing shelters the payload as the launch vehicle flies through the atmosphere.

The carbon observatory is NASA's first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide on a global scale.

Measurements collected from the $280 million mission were expected to improve climate models and help researchers determine where the greenhouse gas is coming from and how much is being absorbed by forests and oceans.

NASA was "still trying to evaluate exactly what the status of the spacecraft is at this point and confirm the location of the orbit and the exact state that the spacecraft is in," Diller said.

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[casselsa66]

your a fucking dick

[XmegaPresident]

Yeah, it would have been funny if you were on there and died. HAHAHA I know I would laugh......

asshole.

[czarinadude15]

waste of money

[jiberias]

I'm feeling a bit nominal at this time.

[nirvgardengod]

it was meant to fail,,,;{

[MrElectro619]

mcm bodoh

[Ganbala]

I want a job like this, because only i need to say "Nominal"

[armorfid]

"Nominal is nominal. Nominal nominal, miles nominal. Nominal stage 2 nominal. Nominal + nominal = nominal. Altitude is nominal at nominal, with a speed of nominal nautical nominals. Nominally nominal avionics are nominal nominals. Sir, I think I just nominaled in my nominal pants."

[mitout123]

Everything is nominal. We get the point.

[nsaminder]

9,500+ miles per hour !!

Don't worry though, our broke ass government has another one waiting to go & the engineers who sabotaged it to ensure future employment will let it work this time.

Besides it's not like we could spend the money on something else, like teachers & education, we need to figure out where all these emissions are coming from. I mean it's a real mystery how all this carbon dioxide is being generated right? Good thing we are doing something about it - like..uh...tracking it.

[nekogang5551]

ur an ass